OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance in an acqui-hire move, bringing aboard founder Ethan Bloch and roughly 10 employees as the AI giant signals a growing push into financial technology talent.
A perfect storm of surging AI token demand, a 48% spike in GPU costs, and war-driven semiconductor supply chain disruptions are pushing the AI industry to a breaking point, with OpenAI's token demand exploding from 6 million to 15 billion per minute and Anthropic restricting access to its latest model.
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over Illinois AI liability bill SB 3444, with Anthropic opposing it as a dangerous shield protecting companies from accountability in mass casualty events, while OpenAI supports it as a harmonized safety framework — and Governor JB Pritzker signals he may side with skeptics.
Anthropic launches a sweeping Claude Code overhaul featuring a multi-session desktop UI, drag-and-drop controls, an integrated terminal, and new Claude Code Routines that automate coding tasks on a schedule — a direct enterprise power move against OpenAI's rumored superapp combining Codex, Atlas, and ChatGPT.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4-Cyber, a powerful new AI model built for advanced defensive cybersecurity, offering tiered access to thousands of vetted researchers and security teams while U.S. government agencies remain excluded amid growing global concerns over rapid AI cyber tool advancement.
AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, an AI-powered platform that designed nearly 300,000 novel antibody molecules in collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, slashing drug discovery timelines from up to a year down to just weeks.
Google launches 'Skills' in Chrome, allowing users to save and reuse AI prompts as one-click tools within Gemini, with customizable workflows, a pre-built library, and multi-tab functionality for tasks like calculations, comparisons, and document scanning.
Anthropic launches Claude Code Routines in research preview, letting developers automate tasks on a schedule, via API calls, or in response to GitHub events — all running on Claude's cloud infrastructure and available now for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.
At CinemaCon in Las Vegas, MPA Chairman Charles Rivkin champions AI as a storytelling tool rather than a human replacement, while Cinema United's Michael O'Leary warns that the looming Warner Bros. and Paramount merger could shrink theatrical film output and damage the entire entertainment ecosystem.
A workplace crisis dubbed 'workslop' is costing companies millions as AI-generated work floods offices with polished but error-riddled output, exposing a stark divide between executives who claim productivity gains and workers who say AI is making their jobs harder, with a 10,000-person organization losing an estimated $8.1 million monthly in …