US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process
US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process

US AI giants are planting flags in London at a pace the city has never seen, and in doing so they are turning the British capital into the clearest rival to San Francisco, while making life harder for the homegrown startups they are landing next to. In…

What SpaceX’s record IPO really means for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it
What SpaceX’s record IPO really means for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it

The SpaceX IPO is set to price the biggest stock-market debut in history this week, raising about $75bn at a valuation near $1.75tn, with shares trading on Nasdaq from Friday. But the most consequential thing about Elon Musk’s rocket company going publ…

‘Wait… what?’ — Lionel Messi’s new ChatGPT World Cup partnership feels like marketing written by AI for people who don’t watch soccer

OpenAI’s first major football marketing campaign stars Lionel Messi, but it feels more like a corporate AI pitch than a celebration of the world’s most popular sport.

OpenAI plugs Visa into ChatGPT so AI agents can shop and pay at any Visa merchant
OpenAI plugs Visa into ChatGPT so AI agents can shop and pay at any Visa merchant

OpenAI is wiring a payment network into ChatGPT. Under an expanded partnership announced at the Visa Payments Forum on Wednesday, AI agents inside OpenAI’s products will be able to shop and pay on a user’s behalf at, in principle, any of the more than …

OpenAI and Anthropic keep warning about AI risks, then releasing bigger models and filing for IPOs
OpenAI and Anthropic keep warning about AI risks, then releasing bigger models and filing for IPOs

In the past fortnight, the two most powerful AI labs on the planet have published research papers, blog posts, and policy proposals warning that frontier artificial intelligence is advancing faster than anyone can control it. In the very same stretch, …

Your ChatGPT bills could soon get a drastic price cut

OpenAI is weighing drastic price cuts as it battles Anthropic for customers. With businesses balking at AI costs and Google undercutting both, your AI bills might finally get smaller.

If you’re using AI tools like ChatGPT to fact-check news, there’s some bad news for you

MIT researchers warn that relying heavily on AI chatbots like ChatGPT for fact-checking news may weaken users’ ability to independently spot misinformation.

Researchers tricked an OpenClaw AI agent into leaking AWS keys and customer data with a phishing email
Researchers tricked an OpenClaw AI agent into leaking AWS keys and customer data with a phishing email

Security researchers at Varonis built an OpenClaw email agent, connected it to a Gmail inbox with fake company data, and then phished it. The agent, dubbed Pinchy, handed over AWS credentials, database connection strings, and a customer export without …

Poetic emerges from stealth with $50M from OpenAI to automate insurance underwriting and compliance
Poetic emerges from stealth with $50M from OpenAI to automate insurance underwriting and compliance

Poetic, an AI startup that has been operating in stealth, has emerged with $50M in funding and a $500M valuation to automate some of finance’s most sensitive back-office work, from insurance underwriting to compliance and fraud checks. Its backers incl…

ChatGPT is recommending scam websites that will steal your credit card info

ChatGPT is surfacing fraudulent clones of defunct retail websites when users ask for product recommendations, according to scam-checking service Ask Silver. The fake storefronts are designed to steal payment information.