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Y Combinator owns approximately 0.6% of OpenAI, valued at ~$5B at current $852B valuation.

OpenAI launches self-serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT with CPC bidding and privacy-preserving measurement.

OpenAI launches European Youth Safety Blueprint and EMEA grants program targeting teen AI safety and educator resources.

When the bromance sours, we all end up in court. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The strongest witness for Elon Musk's case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman's journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual way - he was cross-examined first, followed by a direct examination - and he had some serious high school debate club energy. There was a lot of "I wouldn't characterize it that way," "I wouldn't say it that way," and "That sounds like something I wrote. Can I see it in context?" When Musk's attorney,...

AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $26.6 billion or more. It's relationship with OpenAI is deep and rich.

OpenAI and PwC partner to deploy AI agents for enterprise finance automation, forecasting, and CFO workflow modernization.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman stated the company is exploring an IPO during testimony at Elon Musk litigation.

Open-source research agent built on Claude Code outperforms OpenAI and NVIDIA systems in deep research benchmarking.

Reddit post recounts Sam Altman interview on talent retention at OpenAI during Meta's AI hiring competition.

Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.

Musk texted OpenAI's president and co-founder saying that he and CEO Sam Altman "will be the most hated men in America."

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have partnered with asset managers to more aggressively market their enterprise AI products.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging that the millions he spent to…

Elon Musk made inflammatory public comments toward OpenAI leadership over corporate governance disputes.

OpenAI accuses Musk of trying to "coerce" a settlement days before trial started.

After \~3 weeks of experimentation in OpenAI's Parameter Golf competition, I wrote up why SSMs are structurally disadvantaged relative to transformers in a time- and size-constrained regime (10 min training, 16MB artifact, 25M parameters) on 8xH100s: [https://mradassaad.github.io/posts/why-ssms-struggle-in-parameter-golf/](https://mradassaad.github.io/posts/why-ssms-struggle-in-parameter-golf/) Main findings: 1. SSM in\_proj weights compress up to 3.26x worse than attention QKV under LZMA, directly taxing the compressed parameter budget 2. Architectural wins validated at SP4096 flipped sign...

OpenAI rebuilt WebRTC stack for real-time voice AI with low-latency conversational turn-taking at global scale.

Reddit thread: former startup CTO seeks ideas for spending $10k in expiring OpenAI API credits before year-end.

Musk testifies in OpenAI lawsuit, alleges company abandoned non-profit mission; courtroom sketch circulates on social media.

Anthropic's valuation surpasses OpenAI ($1T vs ~$900B) on secondary markets; enterprise momentum outpaces OpenAI's consumer-led narrative.

Reddit user observes that OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex have separate usage limits, unlike Claude which shares limits across variants.

Build American AI, a nonprofit backed by OpenAI and a16z executives, funds influencer campaign promoting U.S. AI while framing Chinese AI as threat.

Reddit discussion questioning lack of realistic voice models despite AI progress; notes OpenAI's unreleased model and Sesame AI limitations.

In the first week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk took the stand in a crisp black suit and tie and argued that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into bankrolling the company. Along the way, he warned that AI could destroy us all and sat…

OpenAI removed AGI trigger clause from Microsoft deal, replacing it with 2032 date limit; enables multi-cloud licensing but signals shift away from founding governance principle.

Reddit speculation on status of rumored OpenAI-Jony Ive hardware/product collaboration; no new information.

The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings, according to an announcement on Friday. At the same time, the Defense Department has left out Anthropic - which it previously used for classified information - after declaring it a supply-chain risk. This builds upon deals with OpenAI and xAI, which have already reached agreements with the Pentagon for the "lawful" use of their AI systems. A report from The Information suggests Google has struck a similar a...

Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the […]

Elon Musk is the one who wanted this trial. He has spent months claiming OpenAI "stole a nonprofit," and saying he was the actual driving force behind one of the most important companies currently in tech. All indications are that he won't win his case against the company, but he's fighting it anyway. So you'd think he'd have done better when it was his time to take the stand. Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a subscriber? You can sign up here. Instead, Musk spent much of the week arguing with lawyers ...

Elon Musk confirms xAI used distillation from OpenAI models to train Grok, raising questions about training data sourcing practices.