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At SoftBank's annual shareholder meeting, founder Masayoshi Son rejected concerns about an AI investment bubble, declaring it an insult to the technology. The 68-year-old CEO outlined plans to lead the company into his 70s, targeting a $6.2 trillion net asset value built on artificial superintelligence and physical AI. With a $64.6 billion bet on OpenAI, Son is reshaping SoftBank as an AI-era industrial holding company.
OpenAI is testing GPT Bidi 1, a new bidirectional audio model that allows ChatGPT to listen and speak simultaneously. The unannounced model has already started rolling out to select ChatGPT app users, suggesting an official release could happen this week. The upgrade promises to transform ChatGPT voice capabilities with natural acknowledgments, better context retention, and seamless interruption handling.
AI-focused super PACs spent over $27 million on a single congressional primary in Manhattan, making it one of the most expensive races in New York history. Alex Bores, who championed AI safety legislation, lost to Micah Lasher—but the victor promised to ignore both AI companies and pursue the same AI regulation agenda. The race reveals how AI money in politics is reshaping campaigns while raising questions about whether tech spending can counter growing anti-AI sentiment.
NCC Group has been selected for OpenAI's invite-only Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, granting access to GPT-5.5 configured for cybersecurity use cases. The Manchester-based firm will assess the AI model's capabilities in identifying vulnerabilities and strengthening security workflows, contributing over 1,000 research days annually to advance safe application of AI in cyber resilience.
Cerebras Systems delivered strong 92% revenue growth in its first earnings report since going public, but investor concerns over shrinking gross margins sent shares tumbling 17%. The AI chipmaker forecast full-year margins of 38-41%, significantly below rivals like Nvidia, highlighting the financial pressures of manufacturing wafer-scale AI chips despite securing major deals with OpenAI and Amazon.
IBM has joined OpenAI's Daybreak Cyber Partner Program to integrate frontier AI capabilities into corporate cybersecurity workflows. The partnership launches with a new application security service that uses OpenAI's models to detect and validate software vulnerabilities faster than traditional tools, backed by a $5 billion commitment through Project Lightwell to secure open-source software.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed Elon Musk's vision for orbital data centers, arguing that the costs of launching and maintaining space-based infrastructure far outweigh electricity savings. With SoftBank committing $65 billion to OpenAI and the Stargate project, Son insists the AI race will be decided on Earth in the next few years, not in orbit a decade from now.
Two opposing factions of the AI industry are pouring over $17 million into a Manhattan congressional primary, turning the race into a proxy battle over AI regulation. OpenAI-backed groups spent more than $7 million against Alex Bores, while Anthropic supporters countered with over $10 million in his favor, testing the political influence of competing AI industry camps.
Google parent company Alphabet saw its stock plunge 7% in a single day after two high-profile AI researchers departed for rivals. Noam Shazeer, co-lead of Gemini AI models, joined OpenAI while Nobel Prize winner John Jumper left for Anthropic. The exodus erased over $225 billion in market value and raised concerns about Google's ability to compete in the intensifying race for AI talent.
OpenAI unveiled Patch the Planet, a major initiative partnering with Trail of Bits to help open-source maintainers find and patch vulnerabilities using AI-driven cybersecurity tools. The effort addresses a critical bottleneck as AI models now discover bugs faster than defenders can fix them, leaving security teams overwhelmed with reports.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella issued a stark warning to the AI industry in a Wall Street Journal interview. He argues that AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic cannot keep promising mass white-collar job losses while demanding limitless resources to build data centers. His solution: cheaper AI models, more customer control, and a decentralized approach that prevents a few frontier models from capturing all economic value.
Getty Images announced a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to bring licensed visual content into ChatGPT search and discovery features. The deal sent Getty Images stock soaring over 200% in premarket trading, marking a dramatic shift for a company that spent years fighting AI companies in court over copyright violations and unauthorized use of its images.
Samsung Electronics has rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex across its global workforce, marking one of OpenAI's largest enterprise deals. The deployment covers all employees in South Korea and the Device eXperience division worldwide, reversing a 2023 ban on generative AI tools after security breaches.
Users across social media report ChatGPT suddenly got smarter this week, sparking speculation that OpenAI is quietly testing GPT-5.6 inside its platform. The suspected new AI model shows stronger reasoning capabilities and advanced 3D generation, but takes significantly longer to process complex tasks—up to 87 minutes compared to GPT-5.5's 34 minutes in some tests.
Amazon MGM Studios has abandoned Artificial, a nearly-complete biographical drama about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, just months after investing $50 billion in the AI company. The decision came despite the film being in postproduction with test screenings already conducted. Multiple major studios have declined to pick up the project, signaling a troubling shift in Hollywood's willingness to critique Big Tech.
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