OpenAI Backs Bill Shielding AI Labs From Mass-Harm Suits
OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill that would protect AI labs from lawsuits even when their models contribute to mass casualties or billion-dollar disasters.
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Perplexity Hits $450M ARR After Agents Pivot
Perplexity's annual recurring revenue crossed $450M in March after a 50% single-month jump driven by its Computer agent platform - not search.
OpenAI Cracks at the Top as $852B IPO Looms
Three OpenAI executives shift roles simultaneously days after closing a $122 billion round, raising questions about leadership continuity before an expected 2026 IPO.
OpenAI Buys TBPN in Its First Media Acquisition
OpenAI pays low hundreds of millions for TBPN, an 11-person tech talk show with 70,000 daily viewers - placing it under the company's chief political operative ahead of its IPO.
Microsoft Launches Three AI Models to Rival OpenAI
Microsoft's MAI division releases MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 - beating OpenAI and Google on key benchmarks while signaling a strategic break from exclusive reliance on its OpenAI partnership.
OpenAI Drops Sora to Chase Enterprise Revenue
OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video app and killing a $1B Disney deal as it pivots aggressively toward enterprise clients ahead of a public listing.
OpenAI Kills Sora, Disney's $1B Deal Goes With It
OpenAI is shutting down Sora six months after launch, killing a $1 billion Disney deal that was supposed to anchor the product's future.
Atlassian Cuts 1,600 Jobs to Self-Fund AI Pivot
Atlassian is laying off 10% of its workforce and splitting its CTO role in two to redirect cash toward AI development - but the company's own CEO pledged a hiring surge five months ago.
Microsoft Weighs Lawsuit Over OpenAI's $50B AWS Deal
Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI and Amazon after a $50 billion AWS cloud deal may breach its exclusive cloud hosting agreement signed when it backed OpenAI with $13 billion.
xAI 'Not Built Right' - Nine Co-Founders Gone
Elon Musk admitted xAI was built incorrectly as nine of eleven co-founders have departed and two Cursor engineers are brought in to restart Grok's coding tools.
Anthropic Bets $100M on Enterprise Partner Network
Anthropic commits $100 million and fivefold headcount growth to a new enterprise partner program anchored by Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant, and Infosys.
ChatGPT Expands Into Commerce with 14 App Partners
OpenAI launches an Apps SDK and 14 third-party integrations for ChatGPT, turning the chatbot into a transactional platform for food delivery, travel, music, and design.
