OpenAI Closes In on $100 Billion Mega-Round at $850 Billion Valuation
OpenAI is finalizing the largest private funding round in history, with Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft committing over $100 billion at a valuation exceeding $850 billion.
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Researchers Extracted 95.8% of Harry Potter From Claude, Word for Word - and It Only Cost $55
Stanford researchers proved that Claude, Gemini, Grok and GPT-4.1 can reproduce entire copyrighted novels from memory. Some models didn't even need jailbreaking.
OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooter's ChatGPT Conversations Eight Months Before the Attack - And Chose Not to Warn Police
OpenAI's automated systems flagged violent gun scenarios in a ChatGPT user's conversations in June 2025. Employees urged leadership to alert Canadian police. Leadership refused. Eight months later, the user killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, BC.
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and Google Are Racing to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card
Four competing protocols from Visa, Mastercard, Stripe/OpenAI, and Google aim to control how AI agents spend money on your behalf in a market McKinsey projects at $5 trillion by 2030.
The AI Advertising Split: OpenAI Goes All In on Ads While Rivals Refuse
OpenAI launches ChatGPT ads at $60 CPM, Perplexity abandons advertising entirely, and Anthropic runs a Super Bowl campaign mocking the whole idea. The AI industry is splitting on how to pay the bills.
Nvidia's $100 Billion OpenAI Deal Collapses Into a $30 Billion Equity Bet
Nvidia abandons its $100B infrastructure partnership with OpenAI after five months of stalling, replacing it with a $30B equity stake as OpenAI's record-breaking funding round nears $100B at an $850B valuation.
