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When Elon Musk committed big money to start OpenAI in late 2015, he wanted to create another AI company to stop Google from dominating this important field.While a lot has changed since then, the reason OpenAI exists still holds: Google has been working toward this AI moment for over 25 years, and it’s the beast to beat.Take a look at the companies backing OpenAI, which raised a record $110 billion on Friday.OpenAI’s largest corporate investors are fierce Google rivals that will benefit greatly if OpenAI manages to seriously challenge Google in the battle for AI supremacy and control over how…
ChatGPT has reached 900 million weekly active users, OpenAI announced Friday, putting the AI chatbot within striking distance of 1 billion. OpenAI also shared that it now has 50 million paying subscribers. “Subscriber momentum accelerated meaningfully to start the year, with January and February on track to be the largest months for new subscribers in our history,” the company wrote in a blog post. “People use ChatGPT to learn, write, plan, and build. As usage scales, the product improves in ways people feel immediately: faster responses, higher reliability, stronger safety, and more consistent performance.” The new weekly active user figure…
Updated 2026-02-27T18:14:11.648Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Jack Dorsey became a billionaire after founding Twitter in 2006. He stepped down as Twitter CEO in 2021 and supported Elon Musk’s takeover of the company. Dorsey now runs the financial services company Block and is famous for his unusual life of luxury. From attending the Super Bowl with Jay-Z…
Some cottage cheese products sold at Walmart across 24 states have been voluntarily recalled over the possibility that dairy ingredients may not have been “fully pasteurized according to state regulatory standards.”Wisconsin-based Saputo Cheese USA Inc., which produces Walmart’s Great Value cottage cheese products, announced the recall Tuesday after it discovered the issue “during pasteurizer troubleshooting exercises conducted by SUSA in conjunction with the California Department of Food and Agriculture.”Saputo – PHOTO: Great Value cottage cheese is being recalled by Saputo USA.”This recall is being made with the knowledge of the Food and Drug Administration,” Saputo Cheese said in the recall…
The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across the country are blocking data center construction. As the AI debate has been flattened to “doomers versus boomers,” one state legislator is attempting to walk a middle road. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Alex Bores, a New York State Assemblymember and candidate for U.S. Congress. Bores sponsored New York’s first-of-its-kind AI safety law the RAISE Act — and quickly became the target of a Silicon Valley lobbying group with $125 million to spend on attack ads. Listen to the full episode to hear about: The dueling super PACs now fighting over AI’s future, and why Anthropic’s $20 million bet on the pro-regulation side matters. Whether AI regulation ends…
Suno co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman shared on LinkedIn that the AI music generator has amassed 2 million paid subscribers and $300 million in annual recurring revenue. Just three months ago, Suno announced a $250 million funding round that valued the company at $2.45 billion. At the time, Suno told The Wall Street Journal that annual revenue had hit $200 million — that would indicate that the company has had some major growth in a short time frame. Suno lets users create music using natural language prompts, making it possible for people with little experience to generate audio with little…
Starting this week, Perplexity subscribers will have a new agentic tool at their disposal. Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.” More specifically, Perplexity says it is a computer user agent that can execute complex workflows independently using 19 different AI models, even creating subagents to handle specific problems. The tool is available now, only on the company’s highest subscription tier, the $200/month Perplexity Max. It runs entirely in the cloud, which might spare it some of the security concerns of other agentic tools like OpenClaw. TechCrunch hasn’t done a hands-on demo of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will forbid members of the military from attending Columbia, Yale, Brown and other universities starting next school year amid a campaign to cut ties with institutions that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called “factories of anti-American resentment.”Hegseth announced the policy in a video posted to social media on Friday, three weeks after he said the military was cutting ties with Harvard University. Without citing evidence, Hegseth said the universities have become “breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination” that undermine military values.“For decades, the Ivy League and similar institutions have gorged themselves on a trust fund of American…
Is the AI job-pocalypse here? Amazon’s CEO doesn’t think so.White-collar workers are worried. On Thursday, Block CEO Jack Dorsey announced plans to cut nearly half the company, bringing its staff of over 10,000 down to just under 6,000. On the company’s earnings call, Dorsey said that more companies would follow by using AI for efficiency gains.In a Friday interview with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that he hadn’t “really digested” the news from Block. Still, he had thoughts on the future of work with AI.”I do believe that a lot of the jobs that we’ve thrown…
Anthropic has reached a stalemate with the United States Department of War over the military’s request for unrestricted access to the AI company’s technology. But as the Pentagon’s Friday afternoon deadline for Anthropic’s compliance approaches, over 300 Google employees and over 60 OpenAI employees have signed an open letter urging the leaders of their companies to support Anthropic and refuse this unilateral use. Specifically, Anthropic stood in opposition to the use of AI for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry. The open letter’s signatories seek to encourage their employers to “put aside their differences and stand together” to uphold the…