The money will be disbursed in stages and then be «returned» from OpenAI in the form of 4-5 million next-gen gpu purchases by the AI lab.
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xAI releases Grok 4 Fast, focusing on cost and efficiency
They say the model achieves performance comparable to Grok 4 proper with 40% less token use, and even pushes the price of those tokens down by 98%.
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Zuckerberg would rather «misspend a couple of hundred billion» than lose out on AI race
— That’s going to be very unfortunate obviously. But I would say the risk is higher on the other side, he said.
A $600 billion bet
Getting it right on «superintelligence,» or artificial general intelligence, is a clear priority for the Meta CEO, and he has already promised $600 billion of total investment in the technology until 2028.
Weekend roundup; Chrome gets Gemini, Microsoft goes Claude and Veo comes to Youtube
Google goes nuclear; brings Gemini to Chrome
While OpenAI is still working on a browser and others are cautious or have failed to take off, Google is done waiting. They are now building the Gemini assistant directly into the world’s most popular browser. «Gemini with Chrome» will navigate and summarize your tabs for you, offer helpful suggestions in the URL bar, and should soon help you order stuff online. It can even find your closed tabs and search for references inside Youtube videos. It’s rolling out to Mac and Windows users with language set to English as of this writing. They call it «a new era of browsing.»
More at Google’s launch page, Google’s overview and launch thread.
Hands-on with Meta’s new Ray-Bans
Has Meta found the Goldilocks zone of smart glasses? Their recently launched Ray-Bans with an internal screen seems to have hit the sweet spot with reviewers. The Verge calls them the best smart glasses out there, Tom’s Hardware says it «feels like the future,» and Gizmodo writes that you’re going to want a pair. The consensus seems to be that the in-lens screen is quite useful, just about bright enough and it hits the sweet spot with the new wristband.
More at Mashable’s roundup.
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OpenAI tops ICPC coding contest for students, Google finished second
That result would have given it first place if it were human, as the best college teams only solved eleven.
Google also participated with a custom Gemini 2.5 Deep Think and earned Gold status, solving 10 of the problems and finishing second, Google claims.
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World Labs releases Marble: detailed, high resolution and «infinite» 3D worlds
Dr. Fei-Fei Li, considered «the godmother of AI,» has long argued that «spatial intelligence» is necessary for training robots how to interact with the real world — and her lab has now revealed their new world builder model to the public.
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Sam Altman on teen use: «Some of our principles are in conflict»
Teen use of chatbots and their potential harm is rapidly becoming a hot-button political issue, complete with a Congressional hearing and an FTC probe.
OpenAI is therefore reiterating their new policies on teen use and parental controls, and says they will be rolling out automatic age verification for under-18 users that should default to the teen version when in doubt.
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OpenAI announces GPT-5 Codex
Now, OpenAI is launching a custom, optimized version of GPT-5 for the Codex coding agent that they say is faster, more reliable and more steerable than before.
People are mostly using ChatGPT for personal stuff, OpenAI study finds
The highest use category for ChatGPT is «non-work-related» messages, according to the study of anonymized ChatGPT usage, having grown from 53% in June 2024 to 73% of all questions posed as of July 2025.
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Owner of Billboard, Rolling Stone, sues Google over AI Overviews
This is the first major publisher suing Google for the feature, as research from Pew shows that less than one percent of users click on from links that have an AI Overview on the results.
20% drop in traffic
PMC, which is also the parent company of Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, has seen traffic drop by some 20% and affiliate revenue decline 30% since Google’s overviews started on their stories.
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Huge AI investments in Britain? Nvidia, OpenAI chiefs to travel with Trump
Traveling with Trump is both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, and speculation is rife that they are carrying some serious investment news.
«Sizable deal»
According to CNBC, both OpenAI and Nvidia are in discussions about a «major investment,» and a «sizable deal» for data center development in the UK that «could be worth billions of dollars.»
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Friday roundup: OpenAI deals with Microsoft, makes a movie, and Albania gets an AI-generated minister
Microsoft is in a complex business relationship with OpenAI, where the early investor gets access to the latest AI tech and OpenAI gets access to computing power. They have just reached a “non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the next phase of our partnership.” This could allow OpenAI to go for-profit, under the control of a non-profit entity said to retain an ownership stake of more than $100 billion. Many takes on this today, but OpenAI has been moving away from Microsoft for funding, operations and cloud computing lately. The final deal will likely include some kind of a new investment in the now $500 billion company, and may unlock further market opportunities for OpenAI.
More at: OpenAI and Microsoft’s joint statement, x.com announcement, Reuters, Axios.
OpenAI goes to the movies
A new animated a-list movie, «Critterz» is under development using «OpenAI’s resources.» It should be ready for the Cannes Film Festival, meaning production time will be drastically sped up to only nine months. The script is written by part of the team from «Paddington in Peru», and it is spearheaded by Chad Nelson, who is a creative specialist at OpenAI. The technique looks to be to feed drawings to a large language model and have it animate them. The movie therefore streamlines animation, but wont skimp on voice actors, Gizmodo writes.
More at: The Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo and Engadget.
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Report: OpenAI signed $300 billion cloud computing deal with Oracle
The cloud computing giant announced on Tuesday a jump of some 359% in committed deals for $455 billion in outstanding orders — surprising the market and sending its stock up 35.95% on Wednesday, CNBC reports.
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Anthropic’s Claude can now create advanced files for you
If you supply it with the data, like sales reports or statistics, Claude can now use its own sandboxed computer and coding access to provide you with well presented, clean data in file form.
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Veo 3 gets vertical video support, 1080p and a price cut in the Gemini API
Those are the exact words that Google uses for Gemini 2.5 Flash to describe that you get as much as you can use, so they might be hinting here that there are no usage limits on the API access.
Previously, Gemini Pro users would only get three generations per day, and Ultra would get five. But if you pay as you go in the API, you might get as much as you can chew.
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