Anthropic prepares for blockbuster public offering

The maker of the large-language model Claude became the latest AI giant to file to go public, following a similar move by SpaceX. OpenAI is likely to follow suit. Anthropic’s market debut could arrive as soon as this fall. It’s not clear, though, how many shares it will offer to the public, but the IPO is set to make the company worth above $1 trillion. Separately, Anthropic on Tuesday…

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Sam Altman 'Deeply Sorry' OpenAI Didn't Report Mass Shooting Suspect

The alleged shooter was banned from ChatGPT last year, but was able to create a second account.

On Friday, local news site Tumbler Ridgelines published an apology from OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman concerning a mass shooting.

The letter, dated April 23, is addressed to the community of Tumbler Ridge, a small town in British Columbia, Canada, where the alleged shooter, 18-year-old Jesse …

OpenAI Engineer Helps Companies Attract Buyers and Boost Sales

Like many engineers, Sarang Gupta spent his childhood tinkering with everyday items around the house. From a young age he gravitated to projects that could make a difference in someone’s everyday life.

When the family’s microwave plug broke, Gupta and his father figured out how to fix it. When a drawer handle started jiggling annoyingly, the youngster made sure it didn’t do so for long.

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Texas suspect charged in firebombing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home

The Justice Department says a 20-year-old man tried to firebomb the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, one of the most prominent out officials in Silicon Valley.

Daniel Moreno-Gama has been charged in federal court with attempted destruction of property by means of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device, according to a criminal complaint filed in the…

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Sora is Dead. So What is Disney Doing With That $1 Billion Investment?

Well, this is embarrassing. After putting $1 billion into OpenAI on the bet that its AI video model Sora would be the future of content, Disney’s investment is now dead. OpenAI made the surprise announcement yesterday that it was shutting down its AI video model and platform.

While we didn’t get official reasons for the shutdown, reports confirm that Disney’s $1 billion investment in OpenAI…

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OpenAI to Say Goodbye to Sora: Is the Price of AI Video Finally Getting Too High?

As far as revolutions go, this one was pretty short-lived. OpenAI has announced that it is saying goodbye to Sora, the company’s AI video platform. Introduced just over two years ago, Sora was—at its launch—seen as the highest point for the potential of a social AI video revolution.

But, as new AI video models have seemingly surpassed it (namely Seedance 2.0, despite its legal problems),…

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Have the gay tech titans turned their backs on us?

If there’s a glass ceiling for gay people in the tech industry, Sam Altman has said he doesn’t like to think about it. The out OpenAI CEO said in a 2019 “Tech Pride” interview hosted by Lexus that he avoided thinking about his sexual orientation as a barrier to his profession.

“I was going to make every career decision as if there weren’t,” Altman said.

For many, Altman’s sexuality can come…

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Why AI Chatbots Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong

In April of 2025, OpenAI released a new version of GPT-4o, one of the AI algorithms users could select to power ChatGPT, the company’s chatbot. The next week, OpenAI reverted to the previous version. “The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic,” the company announced.

Some people found the sycophancy hilarious. One user reportedly asked ChatGPT…

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Not so fast: Anthropic and US military might do business after all

Anthropic's CEO also took issue with OpenAI and its own deal with the military.

Anthropic, the AI company behind the popular Claude AI chatbot, received praise last week for standing up to the Trump administration over the U.S. military's use of its AI tools.

However, the company may be reversing course.

According to a new report from the __Financial Times__ , Anthropic and the …

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