Elon Musk takes the stand in federal court, accusing OpenAI co-founders of 'looting' a charity through its for-profit conversion, while OpenAI's attorneys strike back with Musk's own emails showing he once supported the very restructuring he now seeks to unwind in court.
Elon Musk takes the stand in a landmark $130 billion trial against OpenAI, demanding the company revert to nonprofit status and remove CEO Sam Altman, while OpenAI fires back claiming Musk's lawsuit is fueled by jealousy and competitive motives tied to his rival xAI venture — with the outcome potentially …
DeepSeek ignites a global AI pricing war by slashing its new V4-Pro model costs by 75% for developers, dropping input token prices to just $0.036 per million — undercutting OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic — as geopolitical tensions over Chinese AI development escalate.
China orders Meta to unwind its $2.5 billion acquisition of Manus AI, escalating AI tensions between Beijing and Washington while signaling a crackdown on 'Singapore washing,' a tactic Chinese tech firms use to attract foreign investment by relocating staff abroad.
Former Google DeepMind researcher David Silver's new AI startup, Ineffable Intelligence, raises a record-breaking $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion valuation, marking the largest seed round in European history as it pursues superintelligence through reinforcement learning, backed by Sequoia, Nvidia, Google, and others.
OpenAI and Microsoft restructure their partnership, ending exclusive ties and allowing OpenAI to work with rival cloud providers like AWS, while Microsoft retains first-ship priority on Azure through a non-exclusive IP license until 2032, clearing the path for OpenAI's IPO.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calls for democratic AI ownership and warns against centralized control over superintelligence, but critics argue financial pressures from potential IPOs could ultimately push frontier AI labs in the opposite direction.
China's National Development and Reform Commission blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, exposing the 'Singapore-washing' strategy used by Chinese tech founders to relocate offshore and evade scrutiny from both Beijing and Washington.
A nine-person jury is seated in Oakland as the high-stakes Musk v. Altman trial kicks off, with Elon Musk seeking up to $134 billion from OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman over allegations they abandoned the company's nonprofit mission, with opening arguments set for Tuesday before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
Microsoft and OpenAI restructure their landmark partnership, granting OpenAI multi-cloud freedom while Microsoft retains a major equity stake, ends its revenue share payments, and keeps Azure as OpenAI's priority cloud provider through a newly amended agreement.