OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers as Another Quits
In five days OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra, parted ways with three safety researchers and lost safety lead David Robinson, who says the culture is broken.
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Anthropic Founders Seek 50.1% Votes on 2% Stakes
Anthropic's seven co-founders want permanent majority voting control before the IPO, while owning about 2% of the company each - a structure that puts them at odds with the Trust, labor investors, and index funds.
Anthropic's $11.6B Akamai Deal Comes With a Stake
Anthropic committed up to $20 billion to Akamai's cloud business and picked up warrants for a stake in the company as part of the same contract.
VideoVerse's $250M Exit Collapsed Into Fraud Suits
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.
Nvidia Recruits Wall Street to Bankroll $500B AI Bet
Nvidia is partnering with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure, reviving circular financing fears.
What's Really Behind DeepMind's Leadership Shakeup
Fresh reporting reveals missed Gemini deadlines, 60-hour burnout weeks, and a Pentagon revolt behind Demis Hassabis's exit as DeepMind's CEO.
OpenAI Buys NextSlide, Aims at Microsoft's Turf
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.
Nvidia's Security Alliance Excludes OpenAI, Anthropic
Nvidia rallied more than 50 companies into an open-source cyber-defense coalition after the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach, but the three trillion-dollar closed labs never signed.
Socher's AI Lab Signs $410M AWS Deal, No Strings
Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence signed a $410 million multi-year AWS compute deal with no equity stake, a rare cash-only structure in an industry built on circular financing.
Nvidia May Guarantee $250B So OpenAI Can Pay Nvidia
Nvidia is negotiating to backstop $250 billion in financing for OpenAI's 10-gigawatt Ohio data center, plus another $350 billion for the chips going inside it, reviving the circular financing debate.
A Memory Shortage Triggered $950B in AI Deals
Nvidia, SK Group, Samsung and Broadcom signed close to a trillion dollars in AI chip and memory deals in San Francisco, and the memory shortage behind them means someone outside the room ends up paying.
Apple Retakes Crown From Nvidia as AI Bets Shift
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.
