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80 articlesOpenAI's __obi Cookie Links ChatGPT Accounts to Advertiser Sites
The identifier is filed under analytics consent, which is where the dispute starts
Manus Is Raising at $4B — Double What Meta Agreed to Pay Before Beijing Stepped In
Five months after the NDRC blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition, the agent startup is back with a $500 million round and a Hong Kong listing in view
Huawei Pulled the Ascend 960 Forward Nine Months. Scale Is the Argument, Not the Die
The 960DT lands in Q1 2027 with 288GB and 4 PFLOPS of FP4, still far behind Rubin per chip — but Huawei is selling 4,096-accelerator pods, and Nvidia cannot ship Rubin into China anyway
Crusoe Raises $3.9B at a $30.9B Valuation and Bets on Data Centers You Can Truck In
The Series F triples the company's valuation in ten months as it builds modular 'AI factories'
A Microsoft Memo Called AI Training 'the Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'
Unsealed material in the New York Times case puts internal Microsoft and OpenAI candor about paywalls, substitution and publisher harm on the record
Open-Weight Models Now Run Most of Vercel's Gateway Traffic — and 14% of the Spend
September's AI Gateway Production Index shows a 56% volume majority worth 14% of spend, while Anthropic holds 64 cents of every dollar
OpenAI Is Testing Ads You Can Argue With
Sponsored Agents let a shopper interrogate a business's chatbot after clicking an ad, while ChatGPT Ads moves inside HubSpot and Shopify so advertisers never leave their own tools
Profound Raises $180M at $1.8B to Sell Brands a Seat in AI Answers
Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins led a round that arrived less than seven months after the last one, as answer engine optimisation turns into a budget line
NVIDIA Makes Tokens Per Megawatt the Metric, and Lambda Puts a Number on It
First production validation of DSX MaxLPS squeezed 19 nodes into a 16-node power budget as agentic workloads rewrite the benchmark
Apple, Google and Microsoft Sign On to Cloudflare's Crawler Rules
A new Disallow AI Training setting ends the choice between search visibility and model training
Temporal Raises $550M as AI Agents Start Running for Weeks
The durable execution company processed 1.9 trillion billable actions in August alone, up more than 350% year over year.
Apple Ships Siri AI in iOS 27 — in English Only, and in Beta
The rebuilt assistant anchors iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27, with five more languages held back until October
Federal Advisory Tells AI Providers to Alter Answers for Suspected Distillers
AA26-251A's mitigation list points defenders at billing data, not request logs — and the false-positive cost lands on paying customers
Washington's $1 ChatGPT Deal Expires. Its Replacement Bills by the Token.
The new 27-month OneGov agreement waives a $15 per-seat license and adds 23 million eligible users, but moves agencies onto metered pricing that may cost more than the flat fee it replaces
A 30B Model Outscored a 550B One Inside Nvidia's Own Factory Planning
Nvidia and Palantir published an accuracy gap that argues narrow post-training now buys more than raw parameter count on bounded operational work
Nvidia Spent $27 Billion Without Filing a Single Merger Notice. The DOJ Wants to Know Why.
Three license-and-hire deals in nine months, one statute that only counts shares and assets, and a $6.9 billion company that sold for triple its worth
Altman Rules Out an OpenAI IPO in 2026 Even With a Confidential S-1 on File
An $850 billion private valuation, a June filing, and a chief executive who says the business is not ready to be priced
Universal Music Hands ElevenLabs Its First Major-Label Deal for a Licensed Remix Platform
A multi-year agreement covering licensing and joint product development, with artists opting in track by track
New Mexico's Top Court Fines a Lawyer $5,000 Over ChatGPT's Fake Witnesses
The court found fabricated testimony, not just the usual invented citations
Moonshot AI Targets $2B Revenue as Kimi K3 Triples Its Run Rate
Open-weight economics finally get a commercial test in Beijing
Huang Defends Nvidia's 70% Growth Call: 'We Put In $1 and $100 Comes Back'
The CEO says tracking every gigawatt of data center capacity on the planet is why he can promise roughly $680 billion in revenue
Mistral Raises €3B at a €21B Valuation in Europe's Largest Tech Round
Samsung leads, ASML returns, and Macron calls it a third way in AI.
Cognition Raises $2B at $48B, Betting AI Coding Has Room for More Than One Winner
The Devin maker nearly doubled its valuation in four months on $900M run-rate revenue and an $800M compute bill
Apple Pushes On-Device AI With 512GB Mac Studio and M5 Ultra
1.2TB/s of unified memory bandwidth aims at running models with hundreds of billions of parameters without a data center
OpenAI's __obi Cookie Links ChatGPT Accounts to Advertiser Sites
The identifier is filed under analytics consent, which is where the dispute starts
Manus Is Raising at $4B — Double What Meta Agreed to Pay Before Beijing Stepped In
Five months after the NDRC blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition, the agent startup is back with a $500 million round and a Hong Kong listing in view
Huawei Pulled the Ascend 960 Forward Nine Months. Scale Is the Argument, Not the Die
The 960DT lands in Q1 2027 with 288GB and 4 PFLOPS of FP4, still far behind Rubin per chip — but Huawei is selling 4,096-accelerator pods, and Nvidia cannot ship Rubin into China anyway
Crusoe Raises $3.9B at a $30.9B Valuation and Bets on Data Centers You Can Truck In
The Series F triples the company's valuation in ten months as it builds modular 'AI factories'
A Microsoft Memo Called AI Training 'the Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'
Unsealed material in the New York Times case puts internal Microsoft and OpenAI candor about paywalls, substitution and publisher harm on the record
Open-Weight Models Now Run Most of Vercel's Gateway Traffic — and 14% of the Spend
September's AI Gateway Production Index shows a 56% volume majority worth 14% of spend, while Anthropic holds 64 cents of every dollar
OpenAI Is Testing Ads You Can Argue With
Sponsored Agents let a shopper interrogate a business's chatbot after clicking an ad, while ChatGPT Ads moves inside HubSpot and Shopify so advertisers never leave their own tools
Profound Raises $180M at $1.8B to Sell Brands a Seat in AI Answers
Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins led a round that arrived less than seven months after the last one, as answer engine optimisation turns into a budget line
NVIDIA Makes Tokens Per Megawatt the Metric, and Lambda Puts a Number on It
First production validation of DSX MaxLPS squeezed 19 nodes into a 16-node power budget as agentic workloads rewrite the benchmark
Apple, Google and Microsoft Sign On to Cloudflare's Crawler Rules
A new Disallow AI Training setting ends the choice between search visibility and model training
Temporal Raises $550M as AI Agents Start Running for Weeks
The durable execution company processed 1.9 trillion billable actions in August alone, up more than 350% year over year.
Apple Ships Siri AI in iOS 27 — in English Only, and in Beta
The rebuilt assistant anchors iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27, with five more languages held back until October
Federal Advisory Tells AI Providers to Alter Answers for Suspected Distillers
AA26-251A's mitigation list points defenders at billing data, not request logs — and the false-positive cost lands on paying customers
Washington's $1 ChatGPT Deal Expires. Its Replacement Bills by the Token.
The new 27-month OneGov agreement waives a $15 per-seat license and adds 23 million eligible users, but moves agencies onto metered pricing that may cost more than the flat fee it replaces
A 30B Model Outscored a 550B One Inside Nvidia's Own Factory Planning
Nvidia and Palantir published an accuracy gap that argues narrow post-training now buys more than raw parameter count on bounded operational work
Nvidia Spent $27 Billion Without Filing a Single Merger Notice. The DOJ Wants to Know Why.
Three license-and-hire deals in nine months, one statute that only counts shares and assets, and a $6.9 billion company that sold for triple its worth
Altman Rules Out an OpenAI IPO in 2026 Even With a Confidential S-1 on File
An $850 billion private valuation, a June filing, and a chief executive who says the business is not ready to be priced
Universal Music Hands ElevenLabs Its First Major-Label Deal for a Licensed Remix Platform
A multi-year agreement covering licensing and joint product development, with artists opting in track by track
New Mexico's Top Court Fines a Lawyer $5,000 Over ChatGPT's Fake Witnesses
The court found fabricated testimony, not just the usual invented citations
Moonshot AI Targets $2B Revenue as Kimi K3 Triples Its Run Rate
Open-weight economics finally get a commercial test in Beijing
Huang Defends Nvidia's 70% Growth Call: 'We Put In $1 and $100 Comes Back'
The CEO says tracking every gigawatt of data center capacity on the planet is why he can promise roughly $680 billion in revenue
Mistral Raises €3B at a €21B Valuation in Europe's Largest Tech Round
Samsung leads, ASML returns, and Macron calls it a third way in AI.
Cognition Raises $2B at $48B, Betting AI Coding Has Room for More Than One Winner
The Devin maker nearly doubled its valuation in four months on $900M run-rate revenue and an $800M compute bill
Apple Pushes On-Device AI With 512GB Mac Studio and M5 Ultra
1.2TB/s of unified memory bandwidth aims at running models with hundreds of billions of parameters without a data center