Microsoft and OpenAI signed a non-binding MOU while OpenAI’s nonprofit parent gains a $100B equity stake. Regulators are reviewing restructuring and access terms.
Oracle’s $300 billion, five-year deal with OpenAI makes it a top-tier hyperscaler, while analysts assess the impact on cloud, AI strategy, and energy demand.
Anthropic will pay $1.5B and delete pirated works in a landmark AI settlement, reshaping copyright law and raising standards for training data.
Microsoft introduces MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, a mixture-of-experts model trained on ~15,000 Nvidia H100s, with GB200 compute active and targeted Copilot rollout.
OpenAI and Anthropic opened APIs for cross-lab audits, reporting sycophancy, misuse cooperation, jailbreak resistance differences, and refusal–helpfulness trade-offs.
Meta Partners with Midjourney to expand its creative AI portfolio, licensing V7 and V1 models while pursuing superintelligence ambitions.
Elon Musk’s accusation that Apple favors OpenAI’s ChatGPT in its App Store rankings has triggered a public battle with Sam Altman, set against intensifying legal pressure on Apple.
Perplexity AI’s $34.5B all-cash bid for Chrome comes as the DOJ weighs forcing Google to sell, potentially reshaping the browser, search, and AI markets.
Nvidia and AMD will pay 15% of China AI chip revenues to the US government in a first-of-its-kind deal, drawing bipartisan opposition over legality and national security.
