Elon Musk sends a threatening text to OpenAI president Greg Brockman just days before trial, warning him and Sam Altman they would become 'the most hated men in America' after a settlement offer turns hostile, as the high-stakes legal battle over OpenAI's nonprofit mission intensifies in court.
Sierra secures a massive $950M funding round, catapulting its valuation to $15B as its AI-powered customer service platform now serves over 40% of Fortune 50 companies, delivering billions of interactions with resolution rates exceeding 70%.
A free app called Locally AI is turning heads by running powerful AI models like Llama, DeepSeek, and Gemma entirely on-device across iPhone, iPad, and Mac — with no internet, no login, and zero data collection, all powered by Apple Silicon.
OpenAI and Anthropic are launching competing billion-dollar enterprise AI joint ventures simultaneously, with OpenAI securing $10B+ backed by TPG and SoftBank while Anthropic partners with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, as both companies race to dominate business AI adoption ahead of potential IPOs this year.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue warns that anti-open-source lobbying in the US risks handing AI dominance to a handful of corporations, as the global developer base is projected to surge from millions to 100 million builders and AI agents may soon outnumber human users on the platform.
DeepSeek unleashes two groundbreaking AI models — DeepSeek-V4-Pro and V4-Flash — featuring over 1 trillion parameters and record-breaking low prices, with V4-Flash undercutting OpenAI's cheapest model at just $0.14 per million tokens, powered by dramatic efficiency gains that slash compute costs to a fraction of its predecessor.
xAI launches Grok 4.3 with ultra-low API pricing, a 1M-token context window, and rapid voice cloning, topping legal and financial benchmarks, but critics slam its coding and math weaknesses and report erratic 'narcolepsy' behavior in autonomous tasks.
TALOS-V2 brings AI inference to FPGA hardware, running Karpathy's microGPT at a blazing 50,000 tokens per second on a DE1-SoC Cyclone V board using fixed-point arithmetic and SystemVerilog RTL, complete with real-time controls and token output on onboard displays.
The Pentagon signs AI deployment deals with Google, OpenAI, and five other tech giants for classified military networks while keeping Anthropic blacklisted as a supply chain risk, though Anthropic's advanced Mythos AI model raises separate national security concerns that could open the door to a potential future deal.
A Chinese court rules that replacing a worker with AI is not legal grounds for termination, upholding a wrongful dismissal case for a Hangzhou tech worker who faced a 40% pay cut, setting a landmark precedent for labor rights amid rising AI adoption across industries.