SoftBank lines up a new $60bn bond to keep its OpenAI bet funded
SoftBank lines up a new $60bn bond to keep its OpenAI bet funded

Sixty billion dollars is a lot of bond, even by SoftBank Group’s standards. The Japanese conglomerate is reportedly preparing to raise up to that much in fresh debt, according to Bloomberg, a target that would eclipse anything Masayoshi Son’s firm has …

ChatGPT will now remind teens to take breaks and give parents more controls

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT’s teen safety features with age prediction, break reminders, and stronger parental controls, while defending why teens deserve AI access at all.

Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

Personal Intelligence in Search now connects to Google Calendar

Google AI Mode now connects with Calendar, letting Search create events and deliver responses tailored to your schedule and availability.

OpenAI made a tiny $230 keyboard that lets you turn up an AI’s brainpower

OpenAI and Work Louder built a $230 mini keyboard that gives Codex users physical shortcuts, live agent status lights, and a dial for adjusting how hard the AI thinks.

Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors’ models.

OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away
OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away

OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI. The company says it is too dangerous to let anyone else near it. The model is called GPT-Red, and OpenAI detailed it this week. It is an automated …

An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet
An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet

No name. No product. No confirmed funding. And, possibly, a $2bn price tag. That is the shape of the newest bet in AI drug discovery. Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is leaving to start his own company, TechCrunch reported. He is in talks to raise …

OpenAI is showing Kalshi’s World Cup odds inside ChatGPT, its first prediction market deal
OpenAI is showing Kalshi’s World Cup odds inside ChatGPT, its first prediction market deal

OpenAI has begun displaying prediction market odds from Kalshi inside ChatGPT search results, marking the first time the company has partnered with a regulated betting exchange. The integration, first reported by the New York Times, shows real-time odd…

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.