OpenAI launches enterprise-focused Codex plugins integrating Google Drive, GitHub, and Slack, while simultaneously shutting down Sora, ending its $1 billion Disney deal, and pausing adult content plans as the company aggressively pivots toward IPO readiness and a 50-50 consumer-to-enterprise revenue split.
Eli Lilly signs a landmark $2.75 billion deal with AI drug pioneer Insilico Medicine, offering $115 million upfront to fast-track AI-generated drugs across multiple disease areas into global markets.
A new benchmark called FinMCP-Bench launches to rigorously test AI models on real-world financial problem-solving, featuring 613 samples, 65 real financial tools, and 33 sub-scenarios designed to measure both tool invocation accuracy and reasoning capabilities across mainstream large language models.
AI inference costs are set to plummet over 90% by 2030, but total spending will surge as agentic AI models consume dramatically more tokens per task, forcing companies to strategically route workloads or risk falling into a costly commoditization trap.
Legal AI startup Harvey secures $200 million in new funding, skyrocketing its valuation to $11 billion as its platform now serves over 100,000 lawyers across 1,300 organizations with $190 million in annual recurring revenue.
Google's new TurboQuant AI compression algorithm, which slashes memory requirements by up to 6x, is sending memory stocks tumbling, with SanDisk plunging 5.7%, Western Digital down 4.7%, Seagate sliding 4%, and Micron dropping 3%, as investors fear reduced long-term demand for DRAM and flash memory.
OpenAI surpasses $120 billion in total funding, blowing past its $100 billion target with backers like Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz, as the AI giant eyes a potential IPO and makes tough cuts — including shutting down its Sora video app — to prioritize profitability.
OpenAI is warning prospective IPO investors of major risks, including heavy Microsoft dependency, $665 billion in compute costs through 2030, and mounting legal battles — even as the company boasts a $730 billion valuation and $13.1 billion in 2025 revenue.
AI startups are dominating venture capital, capturing 41% of $128 billion raised on Carta last year, with just 10% of companies securing half of all funding as giants like OpenAI and Anthropic raise tens of billions in a increasingly K-shaped market.
OpenAI is racing to nearly double its workforce from 4,500 to 8,000 employees by 2026, aggressively expanding across engineering, research, and sales as rival Anthropic gains ground, with businesses now 70% more likely to choose Anthropic for first-time AI purchases.