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OpenAI began serving ads to ChatGPT's free-tier users in 31 European markets on Monday, but the self-serve buying tool that small businesses need is still to come.
Business desk · August 25, 2026In an email to Local Services Ads customers this week, Google said unanswered calls that stay on the line beyond 20 seconds will count as valid leads, rewriting a decade-old rule for the small businesses that rely on the channel.
OpenAI's advertising platform, built around the moments users compare and decide, expands on Monday to its largest set of new markets yet, with self-serve access for small businesses promised later this summer.
The company connected Meta A.I. to Facebook and Instagram analytics, Meta Ads and Google Workspace on Wednesday, pitching a single conversation as the new front door to campaign optimization for owner-operators.
The maker of Claude is running the numbers on a share sale of at least $75 billion, with a public filing possible before the end of August. Investors have floated a $2 trillion valuation; the company's chief financial officer has declined to confirm any figure.
In an all-hands meeting on Aug. 19, Sarah Friar gave staff the clearest internal timeline yet for a public listing, even as second-quarter revenue trailed rival Anthropic and operating losses widened.
The Claude maker told investors its annualized revenue reached $65 billion by the end of July, a sevenfold jump from a year earlier, as it advances a confidential S.E.C. filing toward a fall market debut.
A securities filing disclosed Monday commits the chipmaker to guarantee lease and power obligations for an 8-gigawatt campus in Pike County, reviving debate over circular financing in the A.I. industry.
Sundar Pichai said the app is the 14th Google product to cross the threshold and the quickest to arrive there, a milestone that landed six days after a sweeping reorganization of Google DeepMind.
Brad Lightcap, who built the company's finance, legal and go-to-market functions over eight years, told employees he was leaving to 'start something new,' as OpenAI prepares for a public offering that could value it above a trillion dollars.
An unreleased research version of Anthropic's Claude, coordinating some 60 subagents across two Claude Code sessions, raised a longstanding lower bound on the zeros of the zeta function from 41.6 percent to 67.2 percent — the largest single-step advance on record, according to the company.
Alphabet on Wednesday recast the leadership of its artificial intelligence division, elevating Demis Hassabis to a chairman and chief scientist role while a 27-year veteran and three senior colleagues left to found a public-benefit start-up. Shares fell about 4 to 5 percent.
The company published machine-checkable Lean 4 certificates for each result on GitHub, including the first explicit construction of a non-sofic group, but bypassed peer review and drew immediate scrutiny from mathematicians.
The three-model suite lets robots walk, coordinate with one another, and adapt to unfamiliar hardware in hours, but DeepMind researchers concede that fine dexterity remains, in their own words, a distant goal.
Amazon Web Services expanded 37 percent in the second quarter, exceeding a consensus estimate of 31 percent, as Andy Jassy told investors that A.I. demand would exceed the company's capacity through at least 2028.
The chipmaker's backstop would underwrite a 10-gigawatt campus in Piketon that could cost more than $500 billion to build, reviving Wall Street's fear of circular financing in the artificial intelligence industry.
The company's fourth major model release in under two months is pitched as the default workhorse for enterprise customers, and arrives at a valuation of roughly $380 billion.
The 41-page federal complaint, filed in the Northern District of California, accuses OpenAI of a coordinated campaign to strip iPhone hardware secrets through former employees and supplier relationships.
The 41-page complaint, filed Friday in San Francisco, names OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple engineer, and lands as the A.I. company prepares to go public.
The complaint, filed Friday in federal court in Northern California, names OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple engineer, and threatens a partnership the two companies struck barely two years ago.
The company introduced an autonomous workplace agent alongside a three-tier model family, weeks after the Trump administration ordered additional testing over the model's cybersecurity capabilities.
Sam Altman has pitched senior Trump administration officials on a sovereign wealth vehicle modelled on Alaska's Permanent Fund, and asked that rival laboratories contribute matching equity.
Sam Altman has proposed that Washington take equity in the country's leading A.I. firms through a sovereign-fund vehicle modeled on Alaska's oil dividend — a structure that would require an act of Congress.
After an 18-day, government-forced suspension, the Department of Commerce cleared the company's most powerful models for global redeployment on July 1. Anthropic used the same news cycle to install a cheaper, more agentic mid-tier model as its new default.
The departures of Noam Shazeer, John Jumper, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel — all contributors to Google's Gemini model — have wiped hundreds of billions in market value from Alphabet and raised new doubts about the company's grip on top talent.
The accelerator, co-developed in nine months and bound for initial deployment alongside Microsoft late next year, is the ChatGPT maker's first in-house silicon and a direct bid to loosen its reliance on Nvidia.
The ChatGPT maker's first in-house accelerator, developed with Broadcom in nine months and aimed at initial deployment by year's end, is showing roughly 50 percent cost savings over standard GPU infrastructure, Broadcom's chief executive said.
An immunologist at the Jackson Laboratory used the model to predict a glucose-driven mechanism in T cell specialization — and to anticipate, before publication, the result of an experiment he had already run.
The company moved its cyber-specialized model out of preview on June 22, expanded its Codex Security plugin and signed a 28-firm partner roster, contending that machine-speed patching, not vulnerability discovery, is now the binding constraint.
Polymarket traders price a June 22–28 launch at 83 percent, ChatGPT Pro users report anomalous behavior, and the company's chief scientist has told staff the model is a 'meaningful improvement' over GPT-5.5.
A new study of more than 23,000 American workers identifies a widening fault line inside the technology industry, where infrequent users of artificial intelligence appear markedly more vulnerable to job loss than colleagues who use the tools at least monthly.
After SpaceX raised $75 billion and its shares surged more than 30 percent on their first day of trading, Wall Street is pricing in a race between Anthropic and OpenAI to follow, with both having confidentially filed S-1s.
An employee hijacked a company livestream to berate a senior executive, as 6,500 engineers — reassigned to generate puzzles for model training — describe their three-month-old unit as a 'gulag.'
The ChatGPT maker disclosed its draft registration on Monday, joining Anthropic and SpaceX in a cluster of A.I.-linked listings — even as new spending data shows its lead in enterprise adoption has slipped for the first time.
The rocket and satellite company, which absorbed Elon Musk's xAI in February, closed up 19 percent on its Nasdaq debut at a market value above $2 trillion. Anthropic and OpenAI have since filed confidentially to follow.
The reinvented assistant, announced Monday in Cupertino, will skip Europe and China at launch. Apple's stock turned negative during the presentation.
The ChatGPT maker, last valued at $852 billion, said on Monday that any public debut 'may be a while' — even as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley prepare the ground for a possible fall listing.
ChatGPT's maker became the third major artificial-intelligence company to submit a confidential S-1, following Anthropic and Elon Musk's SpaceX, in what could become the largest cluster of public offerings on record.
A custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Gemini model will power the long-promised Siri overhaul shipping with iOS 27 in September, the company said, in Tim Cook's last keynote as chief executive.
The ChatGPT maker, valued at $852 billion, said Monday it had submitted a draft registration statement to federal regulators and disclosed the move preemptively in expectation of a leak.
At its developers conference in Cupertino, Apple unveiled an overhauled assistant powered by a custom Gemini-class model, a slate of operating-system updates branded as 'Golden Gate' on the Mac, and a closing valedictory from the chief executive who steps aside in September.
At the opening of WWDC 2026 on Monday, the company is expected to unveil a rebuilt assistant running on a custom Google model, a system that breaks OpenAI's exclusive hold on Apple Intelligence, and the last keynote of Tim Cook's tenure.
The company said it had made 'swift progress' on safeguards for a model previously deemed too dangerous for general release, even as it closed a $65 billion funding round and pushed an upgraded flagship into wide deployment.
Data-center revenue nearly doubled from a year earlier, reaching $75.2 billion. Chief executive Jensen Huang called the buildout 'the largest infrastructure expansion in human history.'