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Jeffrey Katzenberg Teams Up With Ex-OpenAI Sora Chief on New AI Video Startup
DreamWorks Animation founder Jeffrey Katzenberg is launching a new AI video-generation startup with Bill Peebles, the former head of OpenAI’s…
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Legal AI Startup Harvey Raises $550 Million at $15.6 Billion Valuation
Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550 million in a funding round co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Diffusion, reaching a…
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Microsoft Adds xAI’s Grok Models to Copilot in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Microsoft has integrated xAI’s Grok models into Copilot for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint through its Frontier Program preview. The rollout…
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Governor Newsom Signs Nation’s Strongest Child-Safety Chatbot and Social Media Laws
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of laws described as the nation’s strongest child-safety protections against AI chatbots and…
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OpenAI Launches Agents API in Public Beta, Opening Up Its Codex Harness
OpenAI released its Agents API in public beta, giving developers direct access to the managed Codex harness that powers its…
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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Won’t Go Public in 2026, Citing AI Safety Concerns
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will not pursue an initial public offering in 2026, calling it an “ill-advised”…
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Abliteration.ai Turns Stripping AI Safety Guardrails Into a Commercial Service
Abliteration.ai, a startup founded in March 2026, has commercialized the removal of safety guardrails from open-weight AI models, offering unrestricted…
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Anthropic and Google DeepMind Safety Researchers Resign to Join METR
Joe Benton, formerly of Anthropic’s scalable oversight team, and Josh Engels, a former Google DeepMind safety researcher, announced they are…
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SoftBank to Repay $25.9 Billion Bridge Loan as It Nears $65 Billion OpenAI Investment
SoftBank Group secured an $11.87 billion two-year loan from roughly 20 banks to help fund its expanding investment in OpenAI,…
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Gemini Notebook Switches to Flexible, Compute-Based Usage Limits
Google is shifting Gemini Notebook from fixed daily usage caps to flexible, compute-based limits that reset every five hours, with…
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Tells Trump ‘We’re Not Going to Let’ an AI Slowdown Happen
During a panel at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on September 14, 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a…
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Microsoft Publishes First Code of Conduct for Its AI Models
Microsoft published its first formal Code of Conduct for its in-house MAI models on September 14, 2026, establishing outright bans…