OpenAI announces apps that work inside ChatGPT, piloting Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow for logged-in users outside of the EU
A new generation of apps you can chat with and the tools for developers to build them. — Try in ChatGPT(opens in a new window)Start building apps(opens in a new window)
OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and others for computing power have topped $1T, dwarfing its revenue and raising questions about how it can fund them
Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman's huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence
OpenAI unveils the Apps SDK in preview, built on MCP, to let developers build ChatGPT apps, and says that it will begin accepting app submissions later in 2025
Expedia, Spotify, Canva, Zillow, Others Now Available Tech Xplore : OpenAI unveils ChatGPT app integration feature OpenAI : App developer guidelines Zillow MediaRoom : Zillow debuts the only real esta...
OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents
New tools for building, deploying, and optimizing agents. NDTV Profit : What Is AI Agent Builder And How Does It Work? OpenAI Launches New Set Of Tools For Developers Aman Gupta / Livemint : OpenAI ag...
NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange says it will invest up to $2B in Polymarket in a cash deal valuing the prediction market at ~$8B; ICE's market cap is $90B+
Investment from Intercontinental Exchange could help the popular prediction market re-enter the U.S.
At OpenAI's DevDay, Sam Altman and Jony Ive spoke in vague terms about the “family of devices” currently under development; Altman says “it will take a while”
“I don't think we have an easy relationship with our technology at the moment,” the former Apple designer …
A look at the OpenAI-AMD partnership, which added ~$78B to AMD's market cap and shows OpenAI is good at deals; last week, OpenAI deals boosted SHOP and ETSY
OpenAI/AMD, Antifraud Co., M&A scoops, World Cup tickets, Gary Gensler's cell phone and Citadel Insecurities. — OpenAI/AMD
UK police dismantle a gang suspected of smuggling up to 40K stolen phones from the UK to China in the past year, arrest 18 suspects, and recover 2,000 phones
Police say they have dismantled an international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen mobile phones from the UK to China in the past year.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, a US first, modeled on a 2010 federal law
“We heard Californians loud and clear, and what's clear is that they don't want commercials at a volume any louder than the level …
SCOTUS declines Google's request to halt key parts of a judge's order requiring Google to make major Play Store changes in the antitrust case Epic filed in 2020
- Google asked Supreme Court to freeze parts of judge's order — Order was issued in suit by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games
OpenAI's recent deals with Oracle, Nvidia, Samsung, AMD, SK Hynix, and others, plus its DevDay announcements, show it is making a play to be the Windows of AI
OpenAI's flood of announcements are getting hard to keep up with. A selection — not exhaustive! — from just the last month:
Anthropic and IBM partner to make Anthropic's Claude models available in IBM's latest IDE for large businesses, and IBM aims to add Claude to more products soon
The AI startup and enterprise tech giant team up to make Anthropic's Claude models available to developers on IBM's software
MrBeast, who is set to earn an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it “scary times” for the industry
Top YouTube creator MrBeast is worried about AI's impact on creators' livelihoods, despite having dabbled with using the technology himself.
Oracle urges customers to patch an E-Business Suite vulnerability that cybercriminals are exploiting; Google's Mandiant says the Clop hacking group exploited it
AWAITING ANALYSIS — This CVE record has been marked for NVD enrichment efforts. CrowdStrike : CrowdStrike Identifies Campaign Targeting Oracle E-Business Suite via Zero-Day Vulnerability (now tracke...
Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands
When Elon Musk takes the stage at Tesla's annual meeting next month, one of the centerpieces of his plan to impress shareholders …
Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which helps health care companies compile patient and doctor feedback in surveys, for $6.75B including debt
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Sources: the SEC has been probing AppLovin over allegations that it violated platform partners' agreements to push more targeted ads to consumers; APP drops 14%
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg :
Jaguar Land Rover plans to resume some UK production after an August cyberattack; an analyst says the hack wiped out ~£5M in daily profit and delayed 30K+ cars
Update Holly Williams / The Independent : Jaguar Land Rover issues major update after crippling cyberattack Stewart Burnett / Automotive World : JLR announces phased return to UK production Akshaya As...
Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on social media algorithms, studying music at Stanford, streaming, paying out $10B, creators, TikTok, influencers, AI, and more
The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He'd rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that. Bluesky: @vortexegg.com and @wired.com Bluesky:...
Docs: Oracle generated ~$900M from its Nvidia cloud server rental business, with a $125M gross profit, or a 14% margin, vs. its ~70% overall gross profit margin
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JPMorgan Chase: debt tied to AI-related companies hits $1.2T, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market at 14%, surpassing US banks at 11.7%
The amount of debt tied to artificial intelligence has ballooned to $1.2 trillion, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market … Bluesky: @waldo42 Bluesky: Waldo / @waldo42 : This see...
FurtherAI, which automates insurance tasks such as policy comparison and claims processing, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, taking its total funding to $30M
super excited for you! Congratulations Sashank, Aman and the rest of the Further AI team!
Sources: when Trump criticized Lip-Bu Tan in August, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Michael Dell, and others spoke to Trump or his aides to vouch for Tan
Semafor : X: @daveweigel X: David Weigel / @daveweigel : “Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and tech founder Michael Dell were among the executives who reached out to President Donald...
Meanwhile, a Bermuda-regulated bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $82M from Apollo, Bain Capital, Haun Ventures, and others, after a $40M Series A in April
Muyao Shen / Bloomberg :
Dell says it now expects 7% to 9% annual revenue growth, up from its prior forecast of 3% to 4%, citing demand for compute, storage, and networking to deploy AI
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
Google debuts an AI bug bounty program offering security researchers up to $30K for finding prompt injections, jailbreaks, and alignment issues in its products
It Rewrites Code to Patch Them Craig Hale / TechRadar : Google launches AI bug bounties - earn up to $30,000 if you can hack Gemini Ayushi Jain / Digit : Google will pay you over Rs 26 lakh for findin...
EvenUp, which makes AI tools for personal injury law firms, raised a $150M Series E led by Bessemer at a $2B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $385M
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune :
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says the AI chipmaker pulled its IPO filing to share updated financials, admitting it was a mistake not to explain the move sooner
So I want to give you the full picture. …
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