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Minute Media's purchase of AI video startup VideoVerse fell apart after the deal closed, and three separate Delaware lawsuits now accuse founder Vinayak Shrivastav of forging signatures to extract tens of millions.
OpenAI has quietly folded presentation startup NextSlide into ChatGPT, its latest undisclosed acqui-hire in a pattern that now spans hardware, security testing, fintech, and media.
DeepSeek suspended a second funding round targeting a valuation above $70 billion after comments attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng went viral, days before a planned mainland China IPO.
Apple closed at $4.88 trillion on July 17, ending Nvidia's 15-month reign as the world's most valuable company, as Wall Street rotates from AI infrastructure toward consumer distribution.
Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to block AI training bots at the network level, moving past robots.txt requests that crawlers were already ignoring.
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman have launched Ode, a $1.5 billion AI implementation firm betting that deploying models beats building them.
OpenAI's No. 2 executive Fidji Simo exits over chronic illness as Greg Brockman absorbs her role - the latest in two years of steady leadership turnover as Anthropic closes in.
Apple filed suit against OpenAI on July 10, alleging a coordinated scheme to steal iPhone trade secrets through recruiting tactics and unauthorized file downloads.
OpenAI launched GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini on July 8, replacing Advanced Voice Mode and making an explicit bet that voice will become AI's primary interface.
The UN and ITU launched a new AI for Good Global Commission with 40+ founding members, but Google, Meta, and OpenAI are not among them.
Midjourney has asked a federal judge to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose their own AI training practices - using the studios' conduct as a fair-use and unclean-hands defense in a high-stakes copyright case.
The WSJ says SpaceX showed investors a Grok-powered AI handset before its IPO. Musk called it false. We examine the hardware stack and what the denial actually means.
