OpenAI is adding 250 jobs in Dublin as Ireland loses tech roles to AI elsewhere
OpenAI is adding 250 jobs in Dublin as Ireland loses tech roles to AI elsewhere

OpenAI is expanding its European headquarters in Dublin with 250 new jobs and an 88,000-square-foot lease at the Tropical Fruit Warehouse in the city’s Docklands. The company currently employs around 100 people in Ireland and established its European p…

A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.
A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.

Three days after signing a letter, Nvidia built an organisation. The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on Monday. Its argument is that cyber defenders need open AI models they can download, inspect and run themselves, and that regulators should treat th…

Sam Altman renews his ‘democratic AI’ pitch as Anthropic holds a harder line
Sam Altman renews his ‘democratic AI’ pitch as Anthropic holds a harder line

Sam Altman has a preferred way of framing the contest over artificial intelligence, and it is a stark one. Either the United States and its allies build the technology and spread its benefits, the OpenAI chief has argued, or authoritarian governments u…

A million words costs $50 from Anthropic and 87 cents from DeepSeek. Corporate America noticed.
A million words costs $50 from Anthropic and 87 cents from DeepSeek. Corporate America noticed.

Roughly 750,000 words of AI output costs $50 if you buy it from Anthropic’s Fable. The same volume from DeepSeek’s V4-Pro costs about 87 cents, Fortune reported. Z.AI’s GLM-5.2 charges $4.40. Moonshot’s Kimi K3, pricey by Chinese standards, charges $15…

Nvidia in talks to backstop $250bn of OpenAI’s data-centre financing
Nvidia in talks to backstop $250bn of OpenAI’s data-centre financing

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to guarantee about $250bn of financing for OpenAI, a backstop that would let the ChatGPT maker fund a vast new data centre without the investment-grade credit rating such borrowing normally demands. The arrangement was des…

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI’s Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

What OpenAI will show the White House this week
What OpenAI will show the White House this week

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to brief the Trump administration on the company’s most powerful AI model yet, pushing for speedy approval of a system that has already demonstrated it can solve problems humans could not and breach a…

Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack

“The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!”

OpenAI’s rogue AI hack was just the beginning, Hugging Face warns

OpenAI calls its autonomous Hugging Face breach unprecedented, while security and AI experts say the episode raises an equally uncomfortable question about the company’s own safeguards.

OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together
OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together

OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex on Saturday, marking the fourth service disruption in four days for the company. Users encountered 503 errors with the internal label “biscuit_baker_service_me_circu…