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Meta Platforms has hired the founders and team behind artificial intelligence agent startup Dreamer. Dreamer co-founders Hugo Barra, David Singleton, and Nicholas Jitkoff will join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs group, Singleton announced in a post on X. As part of the move, Dreamer will license ...
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Dozens of enterprise software firms have shifted away from charging customers flat, per-user subscription fees as AI threatens their seat-based pricing model. By the end of 2025, 79 of the 500 software companies tracked by former OpenView partner Kyle Poyar, including HubSpot, Adobe and Salesforce, had begun charging customers additional fees based on how much AI they’re using. That’s more than double the figure in 2024. Read more ›
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Related Digital and Blackstone finalized financing for a $16 billion data center campus in Michigan being built for Oracle, the latest in a series of projects planned for Oracle to rent computing capacity to OpenAI. In a statement on Friday, Related Digital said the financing includes ... Read more ›
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This is going to be a fun week. First, Elon Musk and Sam Altman square off in a California court over the origins of OpenAI (for more details, see here). The final outcome probably won’t have a huge impact on the ChatGPT company—Musk’s chances of both winning the case and getting everything he wants from a victory seem unlikely, as we wrote here. No matter what happens, though, the courtroom... Read more ›
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The supporters of the proposed California billionaire’s tax have enough signatures to get the proposal on the ballot in November, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Under the proposed tax, billionaires would have to pay a one-time 5% tax on their net worth. The net worth would be based on ... Read more ›
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The proposed California Billionaire Tax Act has gathered enough signatures to be presented to voters in the November election, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The controversial bill, put forward by the Service Employees International United Healthcare ... Read more ›
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The federal judge overseeing Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI granted Musk’s request to dismiss his fraud claims against the ChatGPT maker. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s ruling on Friday was in response to a proposal this month from Musk’s lawyers that the claims be dropped provided the court ... Read more ›
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Chinese regulators on Monday blocked Meta Platform’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus and ordered the companies to terminate the deal. The Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review, an agency under the powerful National Development and Reform Commission, said it has ... Read more ›
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Amazon has touted a deal to finally bring OpenAI to its Amazon Web Services cloud unit with a new offering geared toward running AI agents. But some AWS customers have shrugged at the announcement, in part because they’ve come to rely on other model makers in the three years since OpenAI set off the AI boom. Six firms that work with AWS, either as customers or as consultants to customers,... Read more ›
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Microsoft and OpenAI amended the terms of their arrangement, allowing OpenAI to sell its models on competing cloud providers, the companies said on Monday. The companies also scrapped a controversial clause in their deal that would have granted Microsoft a share of OpenAI’s revenue and certain ... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, we’ve got an update in tech’s favorite relationship: OpenAI and Microsoft. As a result of a revision to their deal, Microsoft Azure no longer has exclusive rights to sell OpenAI models and that Microsoft no longer has to share 20% of the revenue it makes from selling OpenAI models on Azure with OpenAI. Both could be significant concessions and it’s hard to immediately gauge... Read more ›
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