OpenAI triggers senior staff exodus including VP of Research Jerry Tworek as the company slashes funding for Sora and DALL-E projects to prioritize ChatGPT, while burning through $17 billion annually despite $20 billion revenue and planning ads on free tiers.
MIT researchers unveil DiffSyn, a groundbreaking AI model that generates 1,000 material synthesis recipes in under a minute by analyzing 50 years of scientific papers, successfully creating new zeolite materials with enhanced thermal stability and revolutionizing traditional trial-and-error laboratory methods.
Elon Musk confirms SpaceX merges with xAI to create a massive $1.25 trillion company combining artificial intelligence, rockets, and space-based computing, while Tesla stock plunges 3.8% amid analyst predictions that the electric vehicle maker could join the mega-merger within 12-18 months.
AI coding companies race to democratize software creation for millions of non-technical users by eliminating setup barriers and security complexities that currently limit these tools to just 1% of the population.
Major AI chatbots including Google's Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity increasingly cite Elon Musk's AI-generated Grokipedia despite containing racist content and lacking human oversight, raising concerns about spreading disinformation through automated systems.
OpenAI unveils an upgraded Codex app for macOS that revolutionizes coding by letting developers manage multiple AI agents simultaneously across parallel project threads, featuring custom Agent Skills, automated background tasks, and team-based delegation capabilities that surpass single-agent competitors like Claude Code.
India announces zero taxes through 2047 for cloud providers operating global workloads from local data centers, prompting Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity to pour billions into establishing major operations in the country where 62% of citizens embrace AI benefits compared to just 39% in the US.
Snowflake launches Cortex Code, an AI coding agent that uses enterprise data stored on its cloud platform to provide contextual programming assistance with built-in governance, following a $200 million OpenAI partnership and new integrations with Vercel and Brave Search.
SpaceX acquires xAI for $250 billion, forming a $1.25 trillion space-AI conglomerate that surpasses OpenAI as the world's most valuable startup while advancing ambitious plans for solar-powered, space-based data centers to revolutionize artificial intelligence training capabilities.
OpenAI retires four AI models including GPT-4o on February 13 with two weeks notice, as only 0.1% of users still use GPT-4o daily while most have migrated to the improved GPT-5.2 featuring enhanced personality, customization, and creative capabilities.