The creator economy is growing rapidly, and ad revenue alone is no longer cutting it. YouTubers launch product lines, acquire startups, and build real business empires. In fact, MrBeast’s company bought fintech startup Step, and his chocolate business is earning his media arm. This is not just a strategy of one creator. For many, this … Read more
OpenAI is working on several AI hardware devices in collaboration with former Apple designer Jony Ive, and the first product to come out could be a smart speaker. The company is developing a smart speaker, a smart lamp, and is considering AI glasses Informationwith the speaker due out in early 2027. The OpenAI smart speaker … Read more
OpenAI seems to have found a product market that suits young Indians. The company said on Friday that users between the ages of 18 and 24 account for nearly 50% of messages sent on ChatGPT in the country, and users under the age of 30 account for 80%. The AI lab said Indians use ChatGPT … Read more
Move over, PayPal mob: There’s a new tech mob in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. The company is now reportedly in talks to complete a $100 billion deal that values the company at more than $850 billion. Many employees have come and gone since … Read more
Aiming to attract more AI investment to the country, India is hosting a four-day AI Impact Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI and Big Tech labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic … Read more
OpenAI is nearing a deal to raise more than $100 billion at a valuation that could exceed $850 billion, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the matter. The deal comes as ChatGPT maker is cash-strapped and headed for profitability. To that end, OpenAI said it has begun testing ads in ChatGPT for free users, a … Read more
OpenAI has partnered with India’s Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI-ready data center capacity in the country, with plans to expand to 1 gigawatt. The move is part of a broader effort to deepen the company’s corporate and infrastructure footprint in one of its fastest-growing markets. OpenAI announced on Thursday that the partnership … Read more
With India emerging as a global hub for applied AI, OpenAI has partnered with Pine Labs to integrate AI-driven reasoning into the fintech firm’s payments suite, automating billing and billing workflows, which the companies say could help accelerate AI-driven commerce in India. Through the partnership, Pine Labs will incorporate OpenAI application programming interfaces — software … Read more
A federal district court in Northern California ruled in favor of Cameo, a platform that allows users to receive personalized video messages from celebrities, and ordered OpenAI to stop using “Cameo” in its products and features. OpenAI used the name “Cameo” for its AI video generation app Sora 2. Users could use this feature to … Read more
Sam Altman on X announced that Peter Steinberger, the man behind the trending AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI. He said Steinberger has “a lot of amazing ideas” for getting AI agents to interact with each other and said “the future will be extremely multi-agent.” He also said that this ability for agents to collaborate … Read more