OpenAI is in a relatively precarious position. The company is and has been a funding behemoth – just over a week ago, it closed $122 billion in funding at a post-money valuation of $852 billion. It’s potentially planning for an IPO later this year. ChatGPT’s longtime lead in consumer-facing AI led it to name-brand status […]
Zero Shot, a new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI, is aiming to raise $100 million for its first fund. It has already written some checks.
Iran said it will target U.S.-linked data centers with new missile strikes, as the war between the U.S. and Iran escalates.
OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has published a video threatening OpenAI’s planned Abu Dhabi datacenter if the US follows through on threats to attack the country’s power plants, as reported earlier by Tom’s Hardware. The video, which was published to an Iranian state-backed news outlet’s X account on April 3rd, says the IRGC will […]
Glen Anderson, president of Rainmaker Securities, says the secondary market for private shares has never been more active — with Anthropic the hottest trade around, OpenAI losing ground, and SpaceX’s looming IPO poised to reshape the landscape for everyone.
In addition to Lightcap’s new role, OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch will be stepping away from the company to focus on cancer recovery, with a plan to return when her health allows.
OpenAI is undergoing another round of C-suite changes, according to an internal memo viewed by The Verge. Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of AGI deployment – who was until recently the company’s CEO of Applications – says in the memo that she will be stepping away on medical leave “for the next several weeks” due to […]
All week, we’ve been asking you to help us rank the 50 best products Apple ever made, as we mark the company’s 50th anniversary. Thanks to everyone who pitched in – we ended up with more than 1.6 million votes! We also have lots of other coverage of Apple’s first half century, and you should […]
TBPN, Silicon Valley’s cult-favorite tech podcast, will operate independently, even as it’s overseen by chief political operative Chris Lehane.