OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO
TechCrunch reports OpenAI is working on a new $30 billion raise at a $1.25 trillion valuation. The round comes ahead of a planned IPO.
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TechCrunch reports OpenAI is working on a new $30 billion raise at a $1.25 trillion valuation. The round comes ahead of a planned IPO.
techcrunch.com ↗Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work to all 30,000 of its employees. The deployment is a large enterprise adoption of OpenAI's workplace product.
techcrunch.com ↗OpenAI made its competitor to Jev widely available. TechCrunch frames the release as part of intensifying competition among decision models.
techcrunch.com ↗OpenAI added a feature to ChatGPT that lets users lock their chats. The update is aimed at giving users more control over privacy of their conversations.
techcrunch.com ↗TechCrunch reports that Anthropic is proposing an AI safety bill under which a model could be blocked if it could cause the deaths of 50 or more people. The proposal adds to the ongoing policy debate over frontier model regulation.
techcrunch.com ↗Anthropic announced it is donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation. The move places the skills format under neutral, open governance.
anthropic.com ↗TechCrunch examines the growing complexity of Anthropic's relationships with its cloud providers. The piece looks at how overlapping partnerships are shaping compute access for the company.
techcrunch.com ↗Anthropic announced that physicist Christopher Stubbs has joined its Long-Term Benefit Trust. The trust is part of the company's governance structure.
anthropic.com ↗Anthropic opened a call for guest investigators in the life sciences. The program invites researchers to work with the company on science applications of its models.
anthropic.com ↗Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company's AI outperforms doctors on hard diagnostic cases. He describes the work as a push toward 'medical superintelligence'.
techcrunch.com ↗GitHub introduced a Copilot model policy API for enterprises, organizations, and teams. It lets administrators manage which models are available programmatically.
github.blog ↗The US government has ordered federal agencies to remove DeepSeek's AI from their systems, according to TechCrunch. The directive is a notable escalation in policy toward Chinese AI models.
techcrunch.com ↗TechCrunch reports that AI-assisted security research from OpenAI and Google's Wiz has uncovered long-standing vulnerabilities in PHP. The findings have prompted concern across the web ecosystem.
techcrunch.com ↗TechCrunch contrasts Amazon's blocking of AI shopping agents with Walmart's decision to welcome them. The divergence highlights differing retail strategies for agentic commerce.
techcrunch.com ↗1Password launched a feature that lets AI agents log in to services for users without exposing their passwords. It targets a growing security concern as agents act on people's behalf.
techcrunch.com ↗Spotify is positioning itself to be the music service that AI agents select on users' behalf. TechCrunch describes this as the company's current AI strategy.
techcrunch.com ↗Meta says its Muse AI app has passed 10 million users, with shopping among the most popular activities. The milestone comes shortly after the app's launch.
techcrunch.com ↗TechCrunch reports that Google is following Amazon in targeting Nvidia's hold on AI developers. The move signals increasing competition in AI developer tooling and hardware ecosystems.
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