OpenAI burned $3.7bn in the first quarter, The Information reports
OpenAI burned $3.7bn in the first quarter, The Information reports

OpenAI burned through $3.7bn in the first three months of 2026, more than half its revenue of $5.7bn over the same period, according to The Information, which cited documents the company shared with shareholders. Both numbers tripled from a year earlie…

People are starting to think ChatGPT is too cheap — and that might be a problem for OpenAI

ChatGPT’s expanding capabilities and unchanged subscription price have sparked a debate over whether it’s a good deal or headed for a cliff

Qualcomm’s CEO says AI agents will be the new app, and 40 new devices are coming
Qualcomm’s CEO says AI agents will be the new app, and 40 new devices are coming

Qualcomm’s chief executive thinks the app as you know it is on the way out, and that the phone in your pocket is about to lose its place at the centre of your digital life. ‘Agents are going to be the new app,’ Cristiano Amon told CNBC’s The Tech Downl…

Claude earns more revenue per user than ChatGPT, Sensor Tower finds
Claude earns more revenue per user than ChatGPT, Sensor Tower finds

OpenAI still rules AI by sheer size, but it is no longer running away with it. ChatGPT’s apps crossed 1 billion monthly users last month, the fastest any app has reached the milestone, according to Sensor Tower’s State of AI report. Yet on the metric t…

SoftBank and OpenAI launch “Patching as a Service” to defend Japan’s critical infrastructure
SoftBank and OpenAI launch “Patching as a Service” to defend Japan’s critical infrastructure

SoftBank and OpenAI are moving into cyber defence. The two said on Tuesday they are launching “Patching as a Service,” a security product built on OpenAI’s technology, to shield the companies behind Japan’s critical infrastructure from a rising wave of…

OpenAI spent $34bn last year as it lines up for an IPO
OpenAI spent $34bn last year as it lines up for an IPO

OpenAI spent $34bn in 2025, more than two and a half times what it took in, as it prepares to file for one of the largest public listings ever attempted. The figure, reported by the Financial Times, lays out in stark terms what the race to build fronti…

Musk’s trade secret case against OpenAI is dead, and this time it’s permanent
Musk’s trade secret case against OpenAI is dead, and this time it’s permanent

A federal judge has permanently killed xAI’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets related to the Grok chatbot. US District Judge Rita Lin dismissed the case with prejudice on Monday, meaning xAI cannot bring the same claims again. Lin said…

I tried the ‘turn this into a game’ prompt to make ChatGPT fix boring chores — and my son couldn’t wait to play

By asking ChatGPT to “turn this into a game,” I transformed chores, school routines, and errands into small quests and challenges.

Fable 5 was beating GPT 5.5 on every major benchmark. Then the US government pulled it offline.
Fable 5 was beating GPT 5.5 on every major benchmark. Then the US government pulled it offline.

Anthropic’s Fable 5 spent three days as the most capable AI model ever released to the public. It topped the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, crushed OpenAI’s GPT 5.5 on coding benchmarks by double-digit margins, and gave paying subscribers access to Mythos-…