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"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular."

"The charter commits OpenAI to join forces with any 'safety-conscious' rival that has a good chance of reaching OpenAI’s goal of creating AGI within a two-year timeframe."

"OpenAI is considering filing with securities regulators as soon as the second half of 2026."

"OpenAI will need to raise unprecedented amounts of capital through venture funding, debt and an eventual public offering." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The startup’s conversion clears an obstacle for a potential IPO and gives Microsoft a 27% stake in the new public-benefit corporation."

"The industry’s drive to use Congress to override state laws is stirring local lawmakers to move more quickly."

"Roughly $100 million would be needed over the next two years to avoid widespread closures."

"The Onion has more than 53,000 subscribers paying as much as $9 a month."

"Nexstar and its partners would oversee 265 television stations in 44 states and Washington, D.C., cementing its position as the largest owner of local TV stations in the country."

"While Substack takes a 10% cut of a newsletter’s revenue, Beehiiv charges just a small monthly fee that starts at $43 for 1,000 subscribers and goes up to $404 for 100,000 subscribers."

"A tabletop robot that serves as a virtual companion, targeted for 2027, is the centerpiece of the AI strategy."

"PBS is disproportionately affected by the loss of federal funding because it has historically relied on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting more than NPR has."

"The Perplexity offer could be an attempt to signal to the judge that there is an interested buyer, should he force a sale."

“We’re at the inflection point where people don’t need to visit websites.”

"When users type a question, the Dia browser analyzes it and pulls answers from whichever A.I. model is best suited for answering."

"The moves are an acknowledgement that Amazon’s big push into podcasts hasn’t worked out as planned."

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

"The annual payment amounts to nearly 1% of the Times’s total 2024 revenue."

"OpenAI has raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation, months ahead of schedule, as part of its plan to secure $40 billion in funding this year."

"In many cases, the strongest card media companies can play is to lean more heavily on their most recognizable, legacy brands."

"Public broadcasters are turning to foundation funders, philanthropists and local donors to help resolve the coming cash crunch."

"If there is consensus, it’s around having a diversified strategy that avoids being reliant on any third-party platform to reach an audience."

"With the exception of a partnership with the Associated Press earlier this year and a 2024 pact with Reddit, Google has mostly sat on the sidelines while AI rivals strike deals with publishers."

“It was initially framed as a voluntary buyout, but I think they’re using it as an opportunity to redo the staff.”

"Zuckerberg has offered more than 10 of OpenAI’s researchers eye-watering pay packages of $300 million over four years, including $100 million the first year."

"Taking a cut of sales from ChatGPT would allow the company to make money from users of its free version, a so-far untapped source of revenue."

"The announcement from Meta comes days after OpenAI said it would sign the code."

"More than 100 combined TV and radio stations that serve millions of Americans in rural pockets of the country will be at risk of going dark."

"Anthropic is Amazon's third-largest investment to date behind MGM Studios and Whole Food Markets."

"Among the many options being discussed include Ms. Weiss’s taking on an influential role in shaping the editorial sensibilities of CBS News."

"OpenAI first struck an agreement to buy the startup for $3 billion a few months ago, but the deal hit a roadblock after Microsoft objected to some of the terms."

"Musk has repeatedly mobilized his business empire to boost the AI startup."

"I think there’s something to this idea—particularly nowadays, when AI is disrupting everything—that trying to plan a specific career course is nuts."

"Reddit is exploring using World ID, the eyeball-scanning technology from Sam Altman’s Worldcoin venture, as a way to verify users while granting them anonymity."

"A.I. companies that do not pay for content will ultimately lose out on access to it."

"Companies such as Facebook, TikTok and X will have to act immediately to remove material such as hate speech, incitement to violence or 'anti-democratic acts', even without a prior judicial takedown order."

"Noosphere offers journalists a place to showcase work to consumers who are attracted by a more personal style of reporting than they’d normally see on traditional outlets."

"A switch to Anthropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s ChatGPT models for Siri would be an acknowledgment that the company is struggling to compete in generative AI — the most important new technology in decades."

"Microsoft must approve the for-profit switch by the end of the year or OpenAI risks losing billions of funding from other investors, including SoftBank."

“This is the first major ruling in a generative AI copyright case to address fair use in detail.”

"Musk seeks to model the platform after China’s WeChat — a one-stop shop for messaging, payments and shopping."

"Salaries for a software engineer at OpenAI range from around $238,000 to $1.34mn, according to financial package tracking website Levels, while Meta’s salaries varied from $212,000 to around $3.7mn."

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"Musk’s startup is currently trying to raise $9.3 billion in debt and equity. But even before the money is in the bank, the company has plans to spend more than half of it in just the next three months."

“Many popular and well-established podcasts did not make YouTube’s top 100 ranking.”

"Lobbyists acting on behalf of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are urging the Senate to enact a decade-long moratorium on individual states introducing their own efforts to legislate AI."

"Apple has met multiple times in recent months with Perplexity, and its AI team has been actively evaluating the technology — a sign that it’s at least considering a close relationship with the company."

“There’s increasing consensus that probably most of the value is going to be created on the application layer and not the foundation layer.” Companies building consumer products on top of LLMs are growing fast: www.ft.com/content/fd6a...

“As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.“