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Anthropic Is Valued at $380 Billion in New Funding Round

12 February 2026 at 17:38
The artificial intelligence start-up raised another $30 billion, and its valuation more than doubled since its last funding round in September.

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Anthropic was founded by Dario Amodei, right, and his sister, Daniela Amodei, who had parted ways with OpenAI.

OpenAI’s Biggest Challenge Is Turning Its A.I. Into a Cash Machine

11 February 2026 at 11:01
The maker of ChatGPT hopes to triple its revenue in the coming year because it is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars. The clock is ticking.

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OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco. The start-up’s fast expansion means it has to quickly find new ways to make money.

A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.

2 February 2026 at 14:47
A new website called Moltbook has become the talk of Silicon Valley and a Rorschach test for belief in the state of artificial intelligence.

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Just two days after the social network Moltbook was launched, more than 10,000 “Moltbots” were chatting with one another on the site.

A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.

2 February 2026 at 05:02
A new website called Moltbook has become the talk of Silicon Valley and a Rorschach test for belief in the state of artificial intelligence.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Just two days after the social network Moltbook was launched, more than 10,000 “Moltbots” were chatting with each other on the site.

OpenAI in Talks to Raise as Much as $100 Billion

29 January 2026 at 15:53
OpenAI’s discussions with Microsoft, Nvidia, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and others could value it at $750 billion or more.

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OpenAI’s San Francisco offices.

Amazon and Google Eat Into Nvidia’s A.I. Chip Supremacy

29 January 2026 at 11:12
The rivals made billions of dollars in the business over the past year, showing other companies that Nvidia isn’t the only game in town.

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Google’s chips for artificial intelligence are increasingly being used by companies other than Google.

Silicon Valley Wants to Build A.I. That Can Improve A.I. on Its Own

26 January 2026 at 05:02
Ricursive Intelligence, founded by two former Google researchers and valued at $4 billion, is among several efforts to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.

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Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, the founders of Ricursive Intelligence, at the start-up’s offices in Palo Alto, Calif.

Yann LeCun, an A.I. Pioneer, Warns the Tech ‘Herd’ Could Hit a Dead End

26 January 2026 at 05:01
Yann LeCun helped create the technology behind today’s chatbots. Now he says many tech companies are on the wrong path to creating intelligent machines.

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Yann LeCun’s early research paved the way for many of today’s A.I. systems.

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley

Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.

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Ms. Murati with Mr. Altman and two other OpenAI colleagues in 2023. She co-founded Thinking Labs a year ago.

An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them

20 January 2026 at 07:00
Founded by researchers from Anthropic, Google and xAI, the new company, Humans&, is already valued at $4.48 billion.

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Founders of the A.I. start-up Humans& aims to focus on how A.I. can support human workers rather than replace them. From left, Georges Harik, Andi Peng, Noah Goodman, Eric Zelikman and Yuchen He.

OpenAI Starts Testing Ads in ChatGPT

16 January 2026 at 15:09
The company said on Friday that it would start serving ads in the free version of its chatbot over the next several weeks.

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Making money from the free version of OpenAI’s chatbot has been a challenge for the company.

Anthropic Said to Be in Talks to Raise Funding at a $350 Billion Valuation

7 January 2026 at 16:02
The artificial intelligence start-up, which competes with OpenAI, is aiming to raise around $10 billion amid talk of a potential initial public offering.

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Dario Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister, Daniela Amodei. A funding round in September valued the company at $183 billion.

Can OpenAI Respond After Google Closes the A.I. Technology Gap?

11 December 2025 at 14:58
A new technology release from OpenAI is supposed to top what Google recently produced. It also shows OpenAI is engaged in a new and more difficult competition.

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OpenAI’s newest technology comes after Google claimed it had topped its young competitor.
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