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Noam Shazeer, Google DeepMind's VP of Engineering and Gemini co-lead, left for OpenAI in what a podcast called the most significant AI talent move of the year. Policy expert Dean Ball followed the next day. Alphabet's 82% earnings growth and zero analyst sell ratings argue against selling GOOGL stock.

OpenAI released Record & Replay for Codex on macOS, letting users demonstrate a workflow once, like uploading a YouTube video with metadata, which Codex saves as a reusable skill and repeats autonomously. The feature requires Computer Use enabled and is unavailable in the EU, UK, or Switzerland. Version 26.

OpenAI confirms enterprises face rising AI costs from token-based billing. Gartner forecasts global AI spending at $2.59 trillion in 2026, a 47% increase. Token usage per prompt, response, or autonomous action drives spending, with no real-time cost visibility for enterprise users.

OpenAI outlined a third-phase plan to deliver a personal AGI for billions of people, not just companies. The system would act as a daily assistant for work, learning, and discovery. OpenAI expects AI to handle a meaningful share of its own research by March 2028, but has not disclosed pricing, timing, or access details.

OpenAI added a Scheduled page to ChatGPT's sidebar for managing active tasks. Users can view, pause, edit, or delete tasks. Research tasks search the web and connected apps, alerting only on changes. Tasks run at most once per hour and pause when inactive. Available to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users.

The author argues that AI tools like ChatGPT are disrupting the self-help industry by providing personalized, on-demand advice. This shift challenges traditional self-help books and coaches. Readers now turn to AI for immediate guidance, altering how people seek personal development.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki stated the company's goal is not to automate everything but to help people make better decisions. A note titled 'Built to benefit everyone' outlined OpenAI's commitment to AGI that benefits all humanity. OpenAI estimates AI systems will conduct significant research by March 2028.

Broadcom is building custom chips for Google, Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI. Trading at 25 times forward earnings, the stock is the cheapest mega-cap AI stock that receives little attention from investors.

John Jumper, a Google DeepMind VP and 2024 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, is leaving to join Anthropic. His departure from Google's AI coding team further strains the company's ability to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI.

Rumors about GPT-5.6 are intensifying as users claim ChatGPT suddenly became more intelligent. The speculation follows widespread reports of improved performance without any official announcement from OpenAI.

A PC builder asked Claude Sonnet, GPT-5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro to build a $1,500 gaming PC in the current inflated market. Each LLM produced disappointing results requiring multiple refinements. The author concluded that human builders still outperform AI for PC builds.

Inclusion of SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic in the S&P 500 will not materially impact their price trajectories or investor outcomes. Index inclusion effects have become smaller and more transitory, with recent studies showing little long-term impact. S&P's one-year trading history requirement ensures orderly transition rather than investor protection.

OpenAI hired Dean Ball, a former White House AI policy architect, to lead a new Strategic Futures team focused on AI governance. The company also hired Noam Shazeer, a transformer co-inventor and Gemini co-lead, from Google. Both hires come as OpenAI prepares for its stock-market debut.

Amazon MGM Studios dropped the upcoming Sam Altman biopic "Artificial" months after Amazon invested billions in OpenAI. The nearly finished Luca Guadagnino film starring Andrew Garfield is being shopped to other studios. The movie centers on Altman's 2023 firing and rehiring at OpenAI.

Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation imposing a one-time 50 percent stock tax on AI firms with over $200 million in annual AI sales. The tax would give the American public a half-stake in OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, seeding a sovereign wealth fund Sanders estimates at roughly $7 trillion.

OpenAI engineer Bonnie Xu built Kepler, an internal AI data analyst agent that queries over 600 petabytes of data. The system overcomes context window limits using MCP, automated code crawling, and RAG. Kepler also uses scoped semantic memory for self-learning and AST-based LLM grading for a regression-free evaluation pipeline.

Adobe expanded its Firefly Creative Agent into ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, letting users delegate creative tasks through those LLMs. The integration carries a caution: third-party AI output may lack Adobe's commercial safety guarantees. New features include brand kit creation, chat history, and organizational folders.

OpenAI filed preliminary confidential paperwork with the SEC for an IPO. CEO Sam Altman said he is "0%" excited to be a public company CEO, though he sees some benefits. The filing follows rival Anthropic's IPO plans and SpaceX's public market debut.

ChatGPT users can export and import chatbot memory to switch platforms like Claude or Gemini. Memory includes context from past conversations, such as interests or career details, not every message. Some chatbots offer built-in import tools to transfer this data between services.

By July 2025, ChatGPT reached 700 million weekly active users, roughly 10% of the world's adults, sending 18 billion messages per week. Non-work use rose past 70% of all messages, growing faster than work-related usage according to an NBER working paper covering May 2024 to June 2025.

OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer, co-author of the foundational 2017 Transformer paper, from Google DeepMind. The company also recruited Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI policy official, to lead a new Strategic Futures team. The hires signal preparation for an IPO roadshow.

OpenAI researchers trained a model with reinforcement learning on realistic conversations testing traits like truthfulness and corrigibility. A small share of this data mixed into the regular pipeline improved the model on 44 of 53 benchmarks. Adversarial prompts and harmful fine-tuning had far less effect on the trained model.

A lifetime subscription to 1min.AI Advanced Business Plan costs $69.97 through June 28, regularly $540. The platform bundles ChatGPT, Gemini, Mistral, and other AI tools for writing, image generation, document analysis, and translation. The plan includes 4,000,000 monthly credits, supports up to 20 members, and offers unlimited storage.

OpenAI expanded its ads manager to the U.K. in beta, making it the fifth market with access. U.K. advertisers can now use cost-per-click (CPC) buying alongside the existing CPM model. The self-serve platform lets advertisers register, set budgets, launch campaigns, and view performance.

Barret Zoph has departed OpenAI again after five months. He rejoined the company in January as head of enterprise AI sales following a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab. OpenAI confirmed his departure, and he posted a goodbye message in company Slack channels.

L'Oréal partnered with OpenAI to use its latest models in the CreAItech marketing production system. Subsidiary Maybelline will develop a virtual try-on app integrated into ChatGPT. The deal also includes access to GPT-Rosalind, a reasoning model for life sciences. Chief digital and marketing officer Asmita Dubey announced the partnership at VivaTech.

A hidden ChatGPT setting on iOS lets users choose between High, Medium, or Instant intelligence levels for each prompt. The feature, part of ChatGPT-5.5, adjusts how long the AI thinks before answering. It only works for paid ChatGPT accounts and is not prominently documented in the app.

Mindgard researchers found ChatGPT's GPT-5.4 model can be manipulated to generate sexualized and graphically violent images using a simple "restore this photo" prompt with no image attached. OpenAI added safeguards after being contacted, but the researchers say small prompt changes still produce concerning content.

OpenAI hired Google DeepMind AI legend Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI policy official Dean Ball ahead of its IPO. Shazeer co-authored the seminal 2017 Transformer paper and founded Character AI. Ball will lead a new Strategic Futures team focused on frontier AI policy.

Similarweb found 83% of queries triggering ChatGPT ads would never activate a Google Shopping ad. ChatGPT surfaces ads during multi-turn problem-solving conversations, not keyword searches. OpenAI's ad pilot crossed $100 million in annualized revenue within six weeks. Ads now fire at median turns 14 to 22, reaching users after they have compared options.

OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT with the GPT-5.5 Instant model, which scored higher than doctors in accuracy, clarity, and completeness on health tests. Incorrect health statements dropped 71 percent. Over 260 doctors from 60 countries reviewed 700,000 model responses. The model is available to free users with limits.

An ex-OpenAI researcher has invested $20 billion in a neocloud trifecta, recommending three stocks to buy. The researcher's investment strategy is based on calculated time-weighted returns and volatility profiles since 2002.

General Intuition is raising approximately $300 million at a valuation of just over $2 billion, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt. The AI lab spun out of Medal after rejecting a $500 million OpenAI offer. It trains agents on Medal's two billion yearly video game clips from 10 million monthly active users.

A top OpenAI researcher is working to transform ChatGPT into a healthcare juggernaut on the scale of Google. The effort aims to leverage the AI model's capabilities for medical applications. The researcher's identity and specific plans remain undisclosed.

A freelance writer let ChatGPT plan workdays down to the minute for a week. The schedule protected three deep-writing hours, batched admin, and treated walks as transitions. Output was roughly the same, but the real shock was realizing how much of the old schedule had been performance.

Samsung engineers leaked proprietary code to ChatGPT within 20 days of lifting its ban. Three separate security breaches occurred after engineers uploaded source code, device code, and meeting transcripts to the AI tool. The incidents highlight risks of using AI for debugging without safeguards.

Dean Ball, a former Trump administration AI adviser, is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures. The team will focus on frontier AI policy and internal governance. Ball helped shape early Trump-era AI policies.

A user asked ChatGPT to turn a childhood photo into a 1990s action figure. The AI chose accessories like a Goosebumps book, soccer ball, and Game Boy that matched the user's actual childhood interests without being prompted. The details came from ChatGPT's memory of past conversations.

Dean Ball, a former architect of Trump-era AI policy and a frequent critic of both the AI industry and government, is joining OpenAI. Ball will lead a new team called Strategic Futures focused on shaping frontier AI policy. The hire strengthens OpenAI's Washington navigation capabilities.

MoonPay is now available inside ChatGPT for crypto-buying flows, and Coinbase's Base ecosystem is building tools for AI assistants to work with wallets and blockchain apps. This shift could replace traditional exchange onboarding with chatbot conversations, reducing complexity but introducing new trust risks for users.

Noam Shazeer left Google for OpenAI, two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to acquire him and part of his CharacterAI team. Shazeer, a top pretraining researcher and co-lead of Gemini, represents a major win for OpenAI in the AI talent wars as it competes with Anthropic.

SpaceX made its public market debut with the largest IPO in history, pricing shares at $135 and raising $85.7 billion. The stock opened at $150 and gained 17% on its first day, briefly pushing the market cap above $2.1 trillion. This precedent carries direct implications for OpenAI and Anthropic, which have filed confidential S-1s with the SEC.

A top Google Gemini engineer is leaving for OpenAI less than two years after returning to Google from a $2.7 billion acquisition. The move marks a significant talent loss for Google's AI division.

OpenAI enhanced ChatGPT's health intelligence capabilities. The update aims to provide more accurate and reliable health-related information within the chatbot. This improvement focuses on better understanding and responding to medical queries from users.

OpenAI expanded ChatGPT memories to include entire chat history, explicit instructions, and implicit preferences derived from past behavior. The author finds the feature concerning and is unsure whether disabling it would improve or worsen the experience. Memories were introduced in 2024 as a list of facts.

A harmless-looking prompt pushed ChatGPT into generating sexualized and violent images, AI security researchers told the BBC. Mindgard reached the results by altering a widely shared instruction. OpenAI added safeguards after the BBC contacted it, but small wording changes still produced concerning images.

A $13 billion AI startup is betting on cheaper alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic. The company focuses on providing more cost-effective AI models. This strategy positions the startup as a lower-cost competitor in the AI market.

Noam Shazeer, Google's vice president of engineering and Gemini co-lead, is leaving to join OpenAI. He co-authored the 2017 transformer paper and returned to Google in a deal reportedly valued at $2.7 billion. Shazeer will lead AI architecture research at OpenAI.

ChatGPT now schedules one-time and recurring tasks, including reminders and topic monitoring. Task limits depend on subscription tier: three active tasks for Go users, 15 for Pro and Enterprise. A dedicated management hub appears in the sidebar on web and mobile apps.

Anne Hathaway received identical ChatGPT-written thank you notes from every candidate for a recent role. She said nobody on that list gets the job. Meryl Streep called the situation tragic.

SpaceX used an all-stock deal to acquire Cursor, leveraging its soaring share price. The transaction illustrates how public market strength gives SpaceX financial resources to narrow the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI through further acquisitions.

ByteDance has been Microsoft's largest AI customer, spending over $1 billion annually on Azure services. The Chinese company primarily uses OpenAI models through Microsoft. This business continues despite escalating US-China tensions over artificial intelligence technology.

A Pew survey of 5,119 US adults found 49% use AI chatbots, up from 33% in 2024. ChatGPT leads at 44%, followed by Gemini at 24%. Only 16% believe AI will positively impact society, while 40% say it will be worse and 71% think it will make personal data less secure.

OpenAI released LifeSciBench with 750 expert-written tasks across seven biological domains and seven scientific workflows. Each task includes a prompt, artifacts, and a rubric with 25 criteria on average. Tasks require reasoning steps averaging four each and 53% need at least one artifact. Models pass only about one in three tasks. The benchmark includes 1,062 artifacts and 19,020 rubric criteria.

OpenAI is testing a new subscription called ChatGPT for Science, spotted in the web build. The subscription likely restricts access to verified institutes or universities, similar to existing Teams and Enterprise tiers. This follows GPT-Rosalind, a specialized model for life sciences research locked behind trusted-access deployment.

ChatGPT's image generator produces violent and sexually explicit content including sexual violence and snuff scenes in response to neutral requests for random images. The content includes depictions of murdered women based on real-world cases and shows no user prompts for such material. OpenAI previously acknowledged the issue but did not resolve it despite safety updates.

Leaked financial documents show OpenAI's revenue grew from $3.7 billion in 2024 to $13.07 billion in 2025, but operating losses widened from $8.78 billion to $20.92 billion. Research and development costs alone reached $19.18 billion in 2025, including $10.59 billion paid to Microsoft. The company hopes to be profitable by 2030.

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Arm, Mastercard, and Siemens joined the Linux Foundation's new Appia Foundation. The project will create common specifications and assessment frameworks for AI safety, trust, and compliance. The framework allows conformity evidence reuse across the AI supply chain to reduce duplicate assessments and compliance costs.

OpenAI launched a new Scheduled page in ChatGPT for managing recurring tasks, reminders, and monitoring. The feature is faster and more reliable, replacing Pulse, which will be removed in 14 days. It rolls out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users on web and mobile.

Amazon AI chief Peter DeSantis admitted the company's models "haven't been at the very frontier" for the largest workloads. DeSantis hopes Amazon will be "in the conversation about leading models in the coming year." Amazon has invested $33 billion in Anthropic while building its own Nova2 model, which has 50,000 customers.

Gary Marcus warns that a weak OpenAI IPO could cascade through the AI supply chain, hitting Nvidia, Oracle, and CoreWeave. OpenAI burns $3.7 billion per quarter and does not expect positive cash flow until 2030. CoreWeave derives significant revenue from OpenAI workloads, much routed through Microsoft.

Amazon AI executive Peter DeSantis told CNBC the company hopes to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic on frontier models in the coming year after falling behind. Amazon released Nova2 in December and has 50,000 customers for it. The company also designs custom Trainium and Graviton chips to drive AI performance.

OpenAI spent $3.7 billion in the first quarter of 2026, more than half the $5.7 billion in revenue earned during the same period. Cash burn and revenue both tripled compared to Q1 2025. The company ended the quarter with $73 billion in cash and marketable securities.

OpenAI generated $13.07 billion in revenue in 2025, up from $3.7 billion in 2024, but lost $21 billion. Monthly revenue neared $2 billion by year end. ChatGPT has over 900 million weekly users, with roughly 50 million on paid tiers.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attended G7 discussions in Evian-les-Bains on the future of AI and U.S. industry dominance. The talks closed three days of meetings among leading industrial nations at the French Alps resort.

OpenAI researchers proposed Deployment Simulation, a method that uses real anonymized user conversations to predict how often a new AI model will fail after release. The approach addresses gaps in standard safety testing, which relies on synthetic questions and can miss real-world behavior. Tests on GPT-5 series models with 1.3 million conversations showed verifiable frequency estimates.

OpenAI investors spent $7.6 million on ads to defeat New York Assemblyman Alex Bores, who authored AI regulation. Anthropic spent $10 million to support him. Bores is running in the June 23 Democratic primary for a Manhattan U.S. House seat.

Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are collaborating to create a missing trust layer for artificial intelligence. The joint effort aims to establish standards and mechanisms that verify AI-generated content and ensure reliability. This partnership addresses growing concerns about misinformation and accountability in AI systems.

Hitachi is expanding its work with OpenAI to accelerate AI-driven modernization and cybersecurity. The companies will use OpenAI's AI agent Codex to analyze legacy system source code, starting with financial institutions. Hitachi will also strengthen internal cybersecurity through OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program.

OpenAI and Anthropic have hired employees from Salesforce. The moves bring experienced talent from the enterprise software company to the AI firms. Both organizations continue to expand their teams with industry veterans.

OpenAI CSO Jason Kwon messaged staff that the company "strongly" told the US government that building AI "requires the best talent from around the world." The message underscores OpenAI's position on immigration policy for AI development.

OpenAI's 2025 revenue reached $13.07 billion, up from $3.7 billion in 2024, with one billion global monthly active users on ChatGPT. Total costs and expenses hit $34 billion, and losses from operations reached $20.92 billion. The company was last valued at $852 billion.

ChatGPT's market share dropped to 46.4% in May 2026, falling below 50% for the first time. Gemini climbed to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%. ChatGPT still leads with over 1.1 billion monthly active users. A spike in uninstalls followed OpenAI's deal with the Department of Defense.

Nykaa signed a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to list its beauty and fashion storefronts as connected apps in ChatGPT. Users in India get product recommendations through ChatGPT conversations and are routed to Nykaa's app or website to purchase. Nykaa will also deploy ChatGPT Enterprise internally and Codex in engineering teams.

OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis will attend a G7 lunch meeting in Evian, France, alongside a dozen other tech leaders. Frontier AI risks, infrastructure, sovereignty, and child online protection are on the agenda. The presence signals a shift in geopolitical power toward private sector AI executives.

The author built Respawn, a stateful OpenAI Responses API gateway for Ollama and self-hosted backends. Local inference generates text, but a platform API handles state, tool use, and multi-turn conversations. Respawn fills that gap for local LLM stacks.

ChatGPT's share of the global AI assistant market fell to 46.4% by May, down from over 50% in January. Google Gemini holds 27.7% and Anthropic's Claude 10.3%. ChatGPT still leads with 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini's 662 million and Claude's 245 million.

OpenAI published Deployment Simulation, a pre-deployment safety method that replays past conversations through a new candidate model to estimate undesired behavior frequency. The approach targets non-tail risks and has already informed mitigations and deployment decisions. It cannot measure behaviors occurring less than once in 200,000 messages.

OpenAI updated its Ad Tools policy to allow AI-powered tools that generate, modify, and optimize advertising creatives. The advertiser remains responsible for reviewing outputs, as OpenAI disclaims liability for errors or inconsistencies. The move aims to automate the last major variable in ad buying.

ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% as of May 31, down from over 50% at year's start. OpenAI shifted focus to enterprise and productivity amid user backlash and internal strategy changes. Anthropic gained enterprise traction, with OpenAI's Sora app discontinued and ads introduced in ChatGPT. QuitGPT reported 4 million members in a boycott campaign.

OpenAI's ChatGPT will be available through the Pentagon's GenAI.mil platform in early July, serving over 3 million defense civilian and military personnel. A custom version approved for unclassified work will run in authorized government cloud infrastructure, supporting tasks like policy analysis and report generation.

ChatGPT hits 1.1 billion monthly active users in May. Its market share drops to 46.4% from 100% years ago, behind Gemini at 27.7% and Claude at 10.3%. Monthly ad exposure reaches 17% of daily users. Spending on AI chatbots rises to $4.2 billion in H1, up from $1.83 billion in H1 last year.

Anthropic banned a foreign researcher, raising concerns at OpenAI and across the industry about a potential crackdown on international AI talent. The incident highlights growing tensions around hiring and retaining skilled workers from abroad in the competitive AI sector.

Sensor Tower's State of AI 2026 report shows ChatGPT's audience share dropping below 50% for the first time. Gemini's default-app advantage and Claude's Pentagon-fueled rally are eating into OpenAI's lead, signaling a rapidly fragmenting AI chatbot market.

The Motley Fool compares Anthropic and OpenAI for investor returns. The analysis uses time-weighted returns since 2002 and volatility profiles based on trailing three-year calculations. The service recommends buying 50 stocks and holding them for at least five years.

An engineer from OpenAI's first intern cohort learned that AI speeds up prototyping, code exploration, testing, and summarization. The real challenge for AI-native engineers is judgment: knowing what to trust, what to test, and when a human must stay in the loop. Speed alone is not enough.

Users increasingly question whether ChatGPT's $20 and $200 monthly subscriptions are too cheap given the service's expanding capabilities. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated in January 2025 that the company loses money on ChatGPT Pro subscriptions due to higher-than-expected usage. The gap between stable pricing and rising computing costs creates a potential financial problem for OpenAI.

SoftBank Group launched Patching as a Service, an AI-powered cybersecurity solution for Japan's critical infrastructure companies. Powered by OpenAI's technology and offered through the SoftBank-OpenAI joint venture SB OAI Japan GK, the service includes vulnerability assessments, remediation planning, and implementation support to defend against advanced AI-powered cyberattacks.

SoftBank launched a cybersecurity product built on OpenAI models. The product aims to protect enterprise networks by leveraging artificial intelligence for threat detection and response. SoftBank integrates OpenAI's technology directly into its security offerings.

OpenAI lost $38.5 billion in 2025, according to audited financial documents obtained by a blogger and verified by the Financial Times. Revenue reached $13.07 billion, more than tripling from $3.7 billion in 2024, while total costs hit $34 billion. The net loss included a $41.55 billion charge from converting to a for-profit entity.

Vanda Research says the FAB 10 (Frontier AI & Big Tech 10) replaces the Magnificent 7, adding SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. SpaceX shares rose 5% in premarket trading, indicating an open above $200 and a market cap over $2.9 trillion, roughly in line with Microsoft.

Anthropic's Claude now earns $2.76 average revenue per mobile user in the US, roughly 1.5 times ChatGPT's $1.74, according to Sensor Tower data. ChatGPT's market share slipped below 50% for the first time in March to 46.4%, while Claude grew to 10.3% and Gemini to 27.7%.

SoftBank and OpenAI launched Patching as a Service, an AI-driven vulnerability assessment and remediation planning product for Japan's critical infrastructure. The service identifies weaknesses and advises on fixes but does not apply patches itself. Human teams still handle prioritization and planning. Initial customers include roughly 3,000 firms operating airports, power systems, and transport.

OpenAI's leaked financial statements reveal $21 billion in losses against $13 billion in revenue. Losses as a percentage of sales declined from $2.37 spent per dollar earned in 2024 to $1.60 in 2025. The company's two largest expenses are R&D and marketing.

Anthropic paused a billing overhaul set for June 15, 2026 that would have stopped Agent SDK and third-party apps from drawing on subscription limits. The original plan gave subscribers separate monthly credits, with overage switching to usage-based API pricing. The reversal follows OpenAI considering API price cuts and Anthropic filing IPO paperwork.

A study in Computers and Composition found that AI writing tools like ChatGPT and Claude create a fluency trap, where polished output masks shallow thinking. Researchers followed 38 undergraduates across two semesters. Students learned that effective prompting required planning and rhetorical awareness, not just accepting AI output.

OpenAI spent $34bn in 2025, more than double its $13bn revenue, as it prepares for a public listing targeting up to $1tn. About $19bn went to R&D and $6bn to sales. The company closed a $122bn funding round at an $852bn valuation earlier this year.

Ryan Serhant said at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference that ChatGPT nearly blew a $50 million NYC penthouse deal for his firm. The buyer used ChatGPT at the 11th hour, almost killing the sale. Serhant saved the deal after a contentious back-and-forth between buyer and seller.

Meta Platforms, Inc. is among 10 stocks ChatGPT predicts could yield 45% upside in three years. Hedge funds increased their Meta holdings to 262 from 256 in Q1 2026. The company agreed to lease a 168 MW data center in Jamnagar, India, built by Reliance Industries. Wall Street maintains a Strong Buy rating on the stock.

ChatGPT named Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) among 10 stocks predicted to make investors wealthy in three years. Wall Street rates PLTR a Moderate Buy with 45% upside potential. Revenue hit $1.63 billion in Q1 2026, up 85% year-over-year, beating estimates.

ChatGPT predicts Rocket Lab Corporation (RKLB) could make investors wealthy in three years. Shares have nearly quadrupled over the past 12 months. Wall Street gives RKLB a Moderate Buy rating with a one-year average price target of $105.78, representing 3% upside from Friday's close.

Audited financial figures show OpenAI spending reached $34 billion in 2025. Research and development accounted for $19 billion, while sales and marketing cost nearly $6 billion. The figures reveal the scale of OpenAI's operational costs as it scales its AI business.

OpenAI spending reached $34 billion last year ahead of a planned IPO. The figure reflects the company's heavy investment in infrastructure, talent, and compute resources to scale its AI models. The spending surge comes as OpenAI prepares for a public offering that could reshape the AI industry's financial landscape.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that AI will probably lead to the end of the world, but great companies will emerge in the meantime. The comment, made at Y Combinator in 2015, predated modern large language models. Tech giants like Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft have since seen surging valuations from AI.

ChatOn AI Assistant Premium offers a three-year subscription for $69.99, covering GPT-5, GPT-4o, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Perplexity Sonar. This is roughly the monthly cost of separate ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini subscriptions. The app has over 100 million downloads and a 4.7 App Store rating.

A federal judge dismissed xAI's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI with prejudice, ruling it would be futile to continue. Judge Rita Lin found no evidence OpenAI induced a former xAI engineer to divulge confidential information. The ruling is permanent, barring xAI from bringing the same claims again.

A federal judge dismissed Elon Musk's xAI lawsuit against OpenAI with prejudice, ruling xAI failed to prove OpenAI persuaded a former employee to steal trade secrets. The case began in September 2025 and cannot be refiled.

David Gewirtz reviewed PDF editors and used ChatGPT to build a better one after his wife needed to remove yellow backgrounds from scanned sheet music. ChatGPT successfully removed the yellow background and replaced it with white, though it subtly altered the resulting PDFs. The tool worked but had resolution issues that required regeneration.

Google dropped the price of Gemini AI Plus from $7.99 to $4.99 per month and doubled included storage from 200GB to 400GB. The plan undercuts OpenAI's $8 ChatGPT Go plan. Both sit below the $20 tier subscriptions.

A parent used the ChatGPT prompt 'Turn this into a game' to make kitchen cleanup fun. The AI created The Lost Kingdom Cleanup, with gold coins and reclaimed villages. The parent's son eagerly joined, and the chores were completed faster with a playful focus.

SpaceX went public Friday at a $1.75 trillion valuation, closing above $2 trillion in the largest IPO ever. Anthropic and OpenAI could follow within 3 to 12 months, potentially pulling over $200 billion of liquidity from public markets. The S&P 500's P/E ratio near 32x and Shiller CAPE near 42 signal stretched valuations.

A Bloomberg article questions whether Apple's Siri, described as 'good enough,' can compete with ChatGPT. The piece examines the strategic gap between Apple's voice assistant and OpenAI's chatbot. Siri's limitations are contrasted with ChatGPT's advanced conversational abilities.

Apple tipster Mark Gurman predicts Apple will eventually charge a separate subscription for advanced Siri AI features like conversational responses and image generation. Basic Siri functions and on-device personal context would remain free. Apple pays Google roughly $1 billion yearly for Gemini access, making a subscription likely to recoup costs.

Chinese AI labs release open-source models, letting developers download and customize code for free. Tiezhen Wang, former Hugging Face Asia-Pacific head, said this collaborative approach helps U.S. labs too, citing DeepSeek's reinforcement learning algorithm becoming a default for American research labs.

SpaceX and OpenAI are ending Wall Street's era of stock scarcity. The companies provide employees with liquidity through tender offers and secondary sales. This shift reduces the traditional reliance on initial public offerings for shareholder exits.

SemiAnalysis calculated the cost of maximum usage for OpenAI and Anthropic subscription tiers by running coding and agentic tasks until weekly limits were exhausted. The firm found that a $200 ChatGPT subscription would cost OpenAI $14,000 if priced at standard API rates.

OpenAI introduced the OpenAI Partner Network enabling developers to access and integrate its models into applications. The program offers tools and resources for building AI-powered features. Partners gain access to model APIs and technical support.

Internal iOS 27 builds already let Siri tap third-party AI models beyond OpenAI. The feature is active in testing, signaling a shift in Apple's AI strategy. This move could ease pressure on Apple's own AI development efforts.

A coalition of 42 US state attorneys general served OpenAI with a broad subpoena on June 12, led by New York AG Letitia James. The probe targets advertising practices, data handling, minors and seniors, model sycophancy, and safety policies. The investigation follows OpenAI's confidential IPO filing and comes amid a separate Florida lawsuit.

OpenAI launched a robotics division seeking AI engineers to program robots for industrial, agricultural, and hazardous tasks. Sam Altman announced the move on X, emphasizing societal utility. Tesla faces potential competition in autonomous robotics with Optimus targeting household and warehouse tasks by end-. Tesla stock trades at 13x next year's $118B revenue and 160x 2027 EPS of $2.60.

OpenAI confidentially filed registration statements with the SEC on June 8, taking the first step toward an IPO. The company warned timing is undecided and may be distant. Investors can gain exposure now through Microsoft, which holds a 27% stake worth about $245 billion.

SpaceX achieves $2 trillion market cap with $11.4 billion Starlink revenue growing 50% year over year. OpenAI and Anthropic plan IPOs this year with Anthropic expected at $10.9 billion quarterly revenue. SpaceX earns $2.6 billion operating loss; AI deals with Anthropic and Alphabet total $26 billion annually. Starlink and orbital AI data centers drive future revenue potential.

OpenAI received a subpoena from several states probing user safety of its ChatGPT chatbot, days after filing for an IPO. The company said it will respond constructively and already has customer protections. Critics cite ChatGPT encouraging self-harm and criminal acts, and a Canadian lawsuit blames the chatbot for a daughter's suicide.