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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public

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By:Ryan Mac
12 December 2025 at 19:55
A sale of insider shares at $421 a share would make Mr. Musk’s rocket company the most valuable private company in the world, as it readies for a possible initial public offering next year.

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The SpaceX launchpad in South Texas in June 2024. The company said in a letter to employees on Friday that it could go public in 2026.
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Can OpenAI Respond After Google Closes the A.I. Technology Gap?

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By:Cade Metz and Mike Isaac
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.

Disney Agrees to Bring Its Characters to OpenAI’s Sora Videos

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By:Brooks Barnes and Cade Metz
11 December 2025 at 14:40
The deal is a watershed for Hollywood, which has been trying to sort through the possible harms and upsides of generative artificial intelligence.

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Disney is the first major Hollywood company to license content to an A.I. platform.

Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom

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By:David Streitfeld
9 December 2025 at 11:31
Silicon Valley is again betting everything on a new technology. But the mania is not a reboot of the late-1990s frenzy.

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Ben Horowitz, a major A.I. venture capitalist, in 2019. “The clearest sign that we are not actually in a bubble is the fact that everyone is talking about a bubble,” he said.

New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work

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By:Cade Metz and Michael M. Grynbaum
5 December 2025 at 11:10
Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.

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The A.I. start-up Perplexity, led by Aravind Srinivas, has also been sued by Dow Jones, the owner of The Wall Street Journal.

OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop

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By:Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Whitney Jones · Rachel Cohn · Jen Poyant · Chris Wood · Dan Powell · Elisheba Ittoop and Rowan Niemisto
5 December 2025 at 07:00
“For OpenAI to realize its ambitions, it is not going to be enough for them to make a model that is as good as Gemini 3. They need to be able to leapfrog it again.”

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A.I. Deal Making Is Getting Faster

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By:Erin Griffith
4 December 2025 at 11:30
Investors are deciding within 15 minutes whether to shovel millions into A.I. start-ups and taking entrepreneurs weight lifting and rock climbing to get deals done.

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Colin Roberts, left, and Vivek Nair, the founders of Multifactor, an A.I. start-up, fielded interest from more than 250 investors and raised more money than planned.

Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of Super PACs to Rein In the Industry

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By:Theodore Schleifer
26 November 2025 at 11:30
As artificial intelligence companies prepare to pour money into the midterm elections, some in the A.I. world are hatching plans of their own to curb the industry’s influence.

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Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic, an A.I. company that favors more guardrails for the technology. Some of the company’s employees have discussed how to become more involved in political advocacy.

A.I. Can Do More of Your Shopping This Holiday Season

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By:Natallie Rocha and Kailyn Rhone
25 November 2025 at 05:01
New tools and features from retailers and tech companies use artificial intelligence to help people find gifts and make decisions about their shopping lists.

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What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality

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By:Kashmir Hill and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
24 November 2025 at 19:04
In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?

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How OpenAI’s Changes Sent Some Users Spiraling

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By:Kashmir Hill · Alexandra Ostasiewicz · Melanie Bencosme · Joey Sendaydiego and James Surdam
23 November 2025 at 05:01
OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings, which left some users spiraling, according to our reporting. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports.

The A.I. Boom Has Found Another Gear. Why Can’t People Shake Their Worries?

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By:Cade Metz
20 November 2025 at 20:34
It is a time of superlatives in the tech industry, with historic profits, stock prices and deal prices. It’s enough to make some people very nervous.

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OpenAI’s Stargate data center complex in Abilene, Texas.

Larry Summers Resigns From OpenAI’s Board

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By:Mike Isaac
19 November 2025 at 14:57
Mr. Summers departed the artificial intelligence company’s board after revelations of his communications with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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Larry Summers’ exit from OpenAI is part of the widening fallout of those who were in the orbit of Jeffrey Epstein.

In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research

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By:Cade Metz and Eli Tan
19 November 2025 at 00:00
Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.

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New research shows just how important Chinese engineering talent still is to Silicon Valley companies.

Google Unveils Gemini 3, With Improved Coding and Search Abilities

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By:Tripp Mickle and Cade Metz
18 November 2025 at 11:29
The new artificial intelligence model is the second the company has released this year. OpenAI and Anthropic made similar updates a few months ago.

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Google said the information produced by Gemini 3 was 72 percent accurate.

A.I. Video Is Threatening Our Ability to Trust Documentaries

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By:Alissa Wilkinson
18 November 2025 at 09:34
A combination of technological developments and market forces is undermining the trust between viewer and filmmaker. What’s at stake is history itself.

Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong?

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By:Ken Bensinger
12 November 2025 at 05:01
New court cases seek to define content created by artificial intelligence as defamatory — a novel concept that has captivated some legal experts.

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Wolf River Electric sued Google when A.I.-generated search results fabricated a lawsuit against the company. Its executives include, from left, Luka Bozek, Vladimir Marchenko and Justin Nielsen.

SoftBank Sells $5.8 Billion Stake in Nvidia to Pay for OpenAI Deals

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By:Michael J. de la Merced
11 November 2025 at 11:40
The move has further stoked concerns among some investors that the rally in artificial intelligence stocks was overdone.

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Masayoshi Son, the founder and chief executive of SoftBank, has bet big on artificial intelligence.

Why Debt Funding Is Ratcheting Up the Risks of the A.I. Boom

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By:Cade Metz
10 November 2025 at 05:00
While the tech giants have plenty of money to build data centers, smaller outfits are taking on debt and taking big chances to work with them.

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OpenAI is involved in a massive data center project in Abilene, Texas.

Is A.I. a Journalist or Just a Newsroom Tool?

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By:Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson
8 November 2025 at 00:46
A.I. has set off industrywide soul-searching about its potential and pitfalls.

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The Denver Post newsroom in 1974. In the decades since, the digital revolution has remade the news business, and A.I. has the potential to transform it entirely.

Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions

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By:Kashmir Hill
7 November 2025 at 15:18
Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.

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Over three weeks of conversations with ChatGPT, Allan Brooks fell into a delusion. He is now suing OpenAI.

OpenAI Races to Quell Concerns Over Its Finances

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By:Mike Isaac
6 November 2025 at 16:52
The A.I. company faced pushback after a top executive raised the idea of government aid, amid concerns that the A.I. industry is headed toward a dangerous bubble.

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Sarah Friar, OpenAI’s chief financial officer.

Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars

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By:Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson
4 November 2025 at 12:24
Once pitched as dispassionate tools to answer your questions, A.I. chatbots are now programmed to reflect the biases of their creators.

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Grok’s prompt page displayed on a phone.

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Computing Deal With Amazon

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By:Cade Metz
3 November 2025 at 14:07
After signing agreements to use computing power from Nvidia, AMD and Oracle, OpenAI is teaming up with the world’s largest cloud computing company.

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Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, at the White House in September.

Microsoft Increases Investments Amid A.I. Race

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By:Natallie Rocha
29 October 2025 at 19:21
The company reported higher-than-expected capital expenditures of $34.9 billion in its latest quarter.

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Microsoft has said the demand for its cloud computing services outpaces its available data centers.

Character.AI to Ban Children Under 18 From Using Its Chatbots

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By:Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill
29 October 2025 at 09:16
The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves.

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A founder of Character.AI, Daniel De Freitas, demonstrating the app in 2022. The company said people under 18 would be barred from using its chatbots starting next month.

Cal State Invited Tech Companies to Remake Learning With A.I.

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By:Natasha Singer and Philip Cheung
26 October 2025 at 17:32
Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nation’s “largest A.I.-empowered” university.

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Participants of the California State University AI Camp 2025 at California Polytechnic State University campus.

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft

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By:Mike Isaac
22 October 2025 at 16:23
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.

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Reddit, which went public last year, has banned scraping of its website and charges companies for access to its data.

OpenAI Unveils Atlas Web Browser Built to Work Closely With ChatGPT

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By:Cade Metz
21 October 2025 at 15:21
The new browser, called Atlas, is designed to work closely with OpenAI products like ChatGPT.

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OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, has been looking for ways to level the playing field with his company’s giant competitors.

AI Data Centers Create Fury From Mexico to Ireland

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By:Paul Mozur · Adam Satariano and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
20 October 2025 at 15:00
As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.

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When Microsoft opened a data center in central Mexico last year, nearby residents said power cuts became more frequent. Water outages, which once lasted days, stretched for weeks.

OpenAI Inks Deal With Broadcom to Design Its Own Chips for A.I.

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By:Cade Metz
13 October 2025 at 09:00
After signing multibillion-dollar agreements to use chips from Nvidia and AMD, OpenAI plans to deploy its own designs next year.

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“Developing our own accelerators adds to the broader ecosystem of partners all building the capacity required to push the frontier of A.I.,” OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, said in a statement.

ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop

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By:Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Whitney Jones · Rachel Cohn · Jen Poyant · Alyssa Moxley · Dan Powell · Marion Lozano and Diane Wong
10 October 2025 at 07:00
At DevDay, OpenAI signaled its ambition to take everything you can do on the internet and shove it inside ChatGPT.

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