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.
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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.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5.4: Same Price, Different Wins
Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.4 cost nearly the same per token but win on opposite benchmarks. Here is where each model leads and which to pick for your workload.
AI Claims 80% of Record $300B VC Quarter
Q1 2026 set an all-time venture capital record with $300 billion invested globally, and AI startups captured $242 billion of it - four mega-rounds alone accounted for 64% of every dollar deployed.
OpenAI's $122B Round Adds Retail Access Before IPO
OpenAI closed its funding round at $122 billion and $852 billion valuation on March 31, with $3 billion going to retail investors via banks for the first time.
LLM API Pricing Comparison - March 2026
Side-by-side LLM API pricing for GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, DeepSeek V3.2, Grok 4, and 35+ models normalized to cost per million tokens.
