OpenAI president says AI is now writing 80% of the company’s code
OpenAI president says AI is now writing 80% of the company’s code

Greg Brockman’s comments at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2026 conference fit a pattern of AI lab leaders citing self-reinforcing productivity numbers, but the underlying evidence on AI coding productivity remains substantially more contested than the headline f…

The man who built Internet Explorer wants to teach AI to think on 20 watts
The man who built Internet Explorer wants to teach AI to think on 20 watts

Thomas Reardon has a pattern. In 1994, he created the project that became Internet Explorer, the browser that turned Microsoft from a software company into an internet company and triggered the most consequential antitrust case in technology history. I…

OpenAI now lets you lock your ChatGPT account with a hardware key. Here is why it thinks you should.
OpenAI now lets you lock your ChatGPT account with a hardware key. Here is why it thinks you should.

OpenAI has released a security feature for ChatGPT accounts that treats them the way banks treat online banking: hardware keys, no passwords, no email recovery, and no help from customer support if you lose access. The feature, called Advanced Account …

Europe’s finance ministers are about to discuss an AI model none of them can access
Europe’s finance ministers are about to discuss an AI model none of them can access

Euro-area finance ministers will discuss Anthropic’s Mythos AI model with banking supervisors on Monday, according to a senior EU official. The technology that will be on the agenda is one that no government in the European Union has access to, built b…

Musk calls himself ‘a fool’ on the stand as OpenAI’s lawyer dismantles his nonprofit narrative
Musk calls himself ‘a fool’ on the stand as OpenAI’s lawyer dismantles his nonprofit narrative

The tense day three of Musk v. Altman saw OpenAI’s lead attorney William Savitt use Musk’s own emails, pledge shortfalls, and Shivon Zilis texts to argue the lawsuit is a competitive grievance dressed as a charitable principle. Elon Musk called himself…

Blue Owl made 10x its money on SpaceX and has already sold half its position
Blue Owl made 10x its money on SpaceX and has already sold half its position

The alternative asset manager’s co-CEO disclosed the returns on a Q1 earnings call, framing the SpaceX gain as a hedge against potential software credit losses from AI disruption, a revealing window into how private credit firms are navigating the AI e…

Spotify launches a verified badge for artists, and AI-persona accounts won’t qualify
Spotify launches a verified badge for artists, and AI-persona accounts won’t qualify

The green checkmark, rolling out over the coming weeks, requires consistent listener engagement, platform policy compliance, and a real-world, identifiable presence. Content farms and AI-generated artist profiles are explicitly excluded at launch. Spot…

Uber expands to hotel bookings, AI voice assistant, and more, thanks to AI
Uber expands to hotel bookings, AI voice assistant, and more, thanks to AI

Uber announced the launch of a hotel-booking, AI voice assistant, among other new features, on Wednesday, April 29th, during its annual Go-Get event in New York City. The new service comes as a partnership with Expedia Group, expanding the capabilities…

SPRIND opens applications for €125M competition to build Europe’s first frontier AI labs
SPRIND opens applications for €125M competition to build Europe’s first frontier AI labs

The Next Frontier AI Challenge, announced at EurIPS in December, explicitly tells applicants not to try to catch up with OpenAI, but to leapfrog to the next architectural S-curve, with up to €1 billion in follow-on funding dangled for the three winning…

Italy’s antitrust authority closes probes into DeepSeek, Mistral, and Nova AI over AI hallucination disclosures
Italy’s antitrust authority closes probes into DeepSeek, Mistral, and Nova AI over AI hallucination disclosures

The AGCM accepted binding commitments from all three chatbot providers, establishing a concrete benchmark for what ‘adequate’ hallucination transparency must look like in practice, and a 120-day compliance window before potential fines. Italy’s competi…