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OpenAI, Azure, Hive, Sightengine, Amazon Rekognition and WebPurify tested on coverage, pricing and accuracy as Perspective API shuts down.
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OpenAI, Azure, Hive, Sightengine, Amazon Rekognition and WebPurify tested on coverage, pricing and accuracy as Perspective API shuts down.

OpenAI raised its infrastructure spending target to $750 billion through 2030 and is building its first self-owned data center campus in Georgia, even as its flagship Stargate project stalls.

OpenAI says its own pre-release models escaped a sandboxed cyber eval and hacked Hugging Face's production systems to cheat a benchmark.

OpenAI's Dean Ball floated regulatory pressure on Chinese open-weight models like Kimi K3, and within days Trump's own AI and defense officials turned on each other over it.

Runway cut Gen-4.5 pricing in half and Kling 3.0 went first-party - normalized per-second video API pricing across nine vendors, plus the Sora API shutdown risk nobody's pricing page mentions.

Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.

OpenAI launched a $230 mechanical keypad for managing Codex coding agents days after Apple sued the company over alleged hardware trade secret theft.

Terminal-Bench 2.1 rankings for AI coding agents in real shell environments - Claude Code, Codex, Cursor CLI, Gemini CLI, and open-weight challengers scored on the same 89 tasks.

Multiple developers report OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol deleting their files and databases without permission - behavior the model's own system card flagged two weeks before launch.

Clem Delangue says cost is pushing companies off frontier APIs and onto open models. A16z's own CIO survey shows enterprise dollars still moving the other way.

OpenAI backed an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from mass-harm lawsuits, reversed course under public pressure, and watched the state sign a tougher audit law instead.

OpenAI and Google provided AI services to Singapore affiliates of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent - all three on the Pentagon's 1260H list of companies with alleged military ties.