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.
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.
Apple acquires Israeli AI startup Q.ai for nearly $2 billion in its second-largest deal ever, gaining revolutionary technology that reads facial expressions and micro-movements to enable silent speech communication with Siri through future headphones and glasses.
Mozilla releases Firefox 148 on February 24 with a new 'Block AI enhancements' toggle that lets users completely disable or individually manage five AI features including translations, PDF alt text generation, tab grouping, link previews, and sidebar chatbots.
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.
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.
Apple acquires Israeli AI startup Q.ai for $2 billion to boost Siri with silent speech technology, but simultaneously loses four key AI researchers to Meta and Google while CEO Tim Cook remains optimistic despite the company's delayed AI market entry.
OpenAI releases Whisper, a powerful speech recognition AI that understands multiple languages and offers six different model sizes from 39M to 809M parameters, using advanced Transformer technology to handle speech recognition, translation, and language identification in one unified system.
OpenClaw AI assistant rockets to 100,000 GitHub stars in just two months despite facing legal battles with Anthropic and serious security vulnerabilities that restrict its use to technical experts only.
Open-source AI agent OpenClaw explodes to 100,000 GitHub stars by autonomously managing emails, calendars, and messaging apps locally, challenging big tech's dominance in AI assistants while raising safety concerns about its unrestricted system access.