President Donald Trump and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Just Delivered Fantastic News for Oracle Investors
Oracle looks like a big winner from the new Stargate Project. The tech giant began working more closely with OpenAI last summer. Oracle is outgrowing leaders like Amazon in cloud-infrastructure revenue.
OpenAI in focus after launching direct competitor to Amazon-backed Anthropic
OpenAI announced a preview of Operator, an artificial intelligence agent, that will collaborate with a wide range of commerce-driven companies.
OpenAI introduces Operator to automate tasks like vacation planning, restaurant reservations
It can also ask follow-up questions to further personalize the tasks it completes, such as login information for other websites. Users can take control of the screen at any time.
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Anthropic Snags Another $1B From Amazon; OpenAI Joins Data Center Push
Competitors Anthropic and OpenAI continue to refuse to take a back seat to each other when it comes to headline-grabbing news. We take a look at what they're up to now.
Democratic lawmakers pen letter accusing Meta, OpenAI, Google and more of trying to 'buy favor' with Trump
Meta, Apple, Google and other tech companies have been named in a letter penned by Democratic lawmakers, accusing them of cozying up to President-elect Trump.
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FTC points at partnerships between AI leaders and cloud service providers, suggesting they could be subject to antitrust scrutiny
Specifically, the report mentions OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft and Anthropic's deals with Amazon and Google as potentially having an outsize impact on the broader industry. "For an ...
OpenAI chief Altman says DeepSeek's R1 model 'impressive'
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DeepSeek says its newest AI model, Janus-Pro, can outperform OpenAI's DALL-E
Microsoft reportedly investigates whether DeepSeek improperly used OpenAI’s models
OpenAI and Microsoft are probing whether DeepSeek used distillation to help train its rival reasoning model. What we know about the passenger plane collision near Washington, DC My aging parents rely 100% on Social Security to get by.

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OpenAI seeks to block Indian media groups from copyright lawsuit
OpenAI trying to contain major media copyright suit in India
OpenAI sought to block major Indian media companies owned by billionaires Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani from joining a copyright lawsuit that has the potential to set a precedent around fair use in the country,
OpenAI urges Delhi court to dismiss book publishers' copyright plea
This Week in AI: OpenAI gains an invaluable infrastructure advantage
In this edition of TC's AI newsletter, This Week in AI, we talk about OpenAI's new Stargate joint venture and what it means for AI rivals.
FTC raises antitrust concerns over Microsoft $13bn investment in OpenAI
The commission noted that the investment may extend Microsoft's dominance in cloud computing into the emerging AI market.
Microsoft Has A Unique Consumer AI Opportunity, With Or Without OpenAI
Microsoft gains $4.5 billion of annual revenue for every $1 increase in monthly fees from Microsoft 365/Office users. Read why MSFT stock is a Buy.
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FTC examines AI deals between Microsoft & OpenAI, Amazon, Google & Anthropic
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday found that the partnerships between Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOGL)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google with OpenAI ...