OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research organization founded in 2015. It created AI chatbot ChatGPT. Competitors include other AI research organizations such as DeepMind and Google Brain. OpenAI was founded by Sam Altman, former president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, Greg Brockman, former chief technology officer and third employee of Stripe, and Ilya Sutskever, a former Google expert on machine learning. Microsoft has invested more than $11 billion in the company and is a nonvoting board observer. Current board members are Chair Bret Taylor, a former Salesforce co-CEO, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo.

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The Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday. Genaro Molina/LA Times/Getty Images.

Social Media’s New Legal Overhang

By Martin Peers · Mar 26, 2026 5:00pm PDT

It was a brutal day on Wall Street—particularly for shares of Meta Platforms, Reddit and Snap. While the Nasdaq dropped 2.4%, shares of the social media firms plunged between 8% and 10% as the implications of Wednesday’s verdict in the social media addiction lawsuit sank in. That verdict, which found Meta and Google’s YouTube liable for... It was a brutal day on Wall Street—particularly for shares of Meta Platforms, Reddit and Snap....

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei via AP

Anthropic Discusses Going Public as Soon as the Fourth Quarter

By Valida Pau and Sri Muppidi · Mar 26, 2026 3:10pm PDT · 1 comment

Anthropic executives have discussed an initial public offering of the AI firm’s shares as soon as the fourth quarter this year, according to people familiar with the matter. Bankers vying to take Anthropic public expect the company to raise more than $60 billion in the initial public offering, said some of the people. That could be the... Anthropic executives have discussed an initial public offering of the AI firm’s shares as soon as...

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Ozempic Maker Says AI Agents Are Shortening Its Clinical Trials

By Aaron Holmes · Mar 26, 2026 11:00am PDT

In the ultracompetitive world of drug development, getting a new medication on the market as fast as possible can have major business implications. There’s perhaps no better recent example than Novo Nordisk, which has generated nearly $100 billion in sales of weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy while trying to fend off competition from Eli... In the ultracompetitive world of drug development, getting a new medication on the market as fast...

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Microsoft Freezes Hiring in Major Cloud and Sales Groups

By Kevin McLaughlin and Aaron Holmes · Mar 26, 2026 10:36am PDT

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Microsoft Freezes Hiring in Major Cloud and Sales Groups

By Kevin McLaughlin and Aaron Holmes · Mar 26, 2026 10:36am PDT

Microsoft executives in recent weeks told managers at major divisions, including its Azure cloud and North American sales groups, to suspend new hiring, according to three current employees with direct knowledge of the decision. It’s not uncommon for Microsoft to slow hiring or even lay off staff toward the end of its fiscal year, which ends in... Microsoft executives in recent weeks told managers at major divisions, including its Azure cloud...

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Claude is Gaining on OpenClaw

By Rocket Drew · Mar 26, 2026 7:25am PDT

Anthropic has been on a tear in adding features to its Claude AI agents for coding and other white-collar work. The Claude agents now offer many of the features that turned OpenClaw, an open-source tool for developing personal AI agents, into a sensation.Claude’s new features include the ability to take over a person’s computer to perform... Anthropic has been on a tear in adding features to its Claude AI agents for coding and other...

The plaintiff's family and attorney react to the news that the jury has found Meta and YouTube liable in the social media addiction trial in Los Angeles Superior Court. Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images.

Meta’s Future Value and the Social Media Verdict

By Martin Peers · Mar 25, 2026 5:00pm PDT

Talk about bad timing. Meta Platforms made a big splash on Tuesday night by disclosing new stock grants for senior executives that fully pay out only if the company’s market capitalization rises above $9.4 trillion by 2031, from $1.5 trillion now. Hours later, on Wednesday, we scooped the news that Meta was laying off hundreds of people. And... Talk about bad timing. Meta Platforms made a big splash on Tuesday night by disclosing new stock...

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The Bull Case for AI Just Got Stronger

By Ken Brown · Mar 25, 2026 8:00am PDT · 2 comments

Please join The Information at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 27, for The Information’s “Financing the AI Revolution” forum. Hear from top executives and investors on how the rapid build-out of AI is reshaping tech, finance and capital markets. Learn more here.There’s supply and demand for AI computing power and there’s supply and... Please join The Information at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 27, for The...

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Apple Can ‘Distill’ Google’s Big Gemini Model

By Jessica E. Lessin, Amir Efrati and Erin Woo · Mar 25, 2026 7:00am PDT

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Apple Can ‘Distill’ Google’s Big Gemini Model

By Jessica E. Lessin, Amir Efrati and Erin Woo · Mar 25, 2026 7:00am PDT

Before we get to today’s column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s major reorg, the company’s new "Spud” model and its decision to shut down the Sora video app and application programming interface, which we scooped on Tuesday. (For what the company’s organizational structure looks like now after the changes, check out our updated OpenAI... Before we get to today’s column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s major reorg, the...

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The Math Behind Anthropic’s Mad Revenue Growth

By Sri Muppidi · Mar 24, 2026 5:49pm PDT · 1 comment

OpenAI and Anthropic’s remarkable revenue growth has invited scrutiny of how the AI startups are tallying the headline-making figures they have privately or publicly disclosed.Last month, OpenAI’s annualized revenue jumped to $25 billion, nearly four times higher than a year earlier. Anthropic has grown even faster: At the end of last month,... OpenAI and Anthropic’s remarkable revenue growth has invited scrutiny of how the AI startups are...

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OpenAI Wrongfoots Disney

By Martin Peers and Ann Gehan · Mar 24, 2026 5:00pm PDT

Walt Disney Co. must be so glad it committed to investing $1 billion in OpenAI and becoming a customer of the ChatGPT creator. The theme park and entertainment firm agreed to both steps as part of a deal struck last December in which it licensed its characters for use on OpenAI’s Sora video-generation tool. On Tuesday, OpenAI decided to shut... Walt Disney Co. must be so glad it committed to investing $1 billion in OpenAI and becoming a...

Slack, Workday and LinkedIn Are Resisting Customers’ AI Agents

Slack, Workday and LinkedIn Are Resisting Customers’ AI Agents

By Laura Bratton · Mar 24, 2026 1:24pm PDT · 1 comment

Every day seems to bring new excitement—or in the case of Amazon employees, trepidation—around AI agents that aim to perform any white-collar task involving a computer. Monday night, for instance, Anthropic announced its latest march in this direction with a version of its Claude chatbot that can take over your computer and operate any... Every day seems to bring new excitement—or in the case of Amazon employees, trepidation—around AI...

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OpenAI CEO Shifts Responsibilities, Preps ‘Spud’ AI Model

By Stephanie Palazzolo and Amir Efrati · Mar 24, 2026 12:58pm PDT · 2 comments

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

OpenAI CEO Shifts Responsibilities, Preps ‘Spud’ AI Model

By Stephanie Palazzolo and Amir Efrati · Mar 24, 2026 12:58pm PDT · 2 comments

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has relinquished direct oversight of the company’s safety and security teams so he can focus on raising capital, supply chains and “building datacenters at unprecedented scale,” he told staff on Tuesday. At the same time, he said the company had completed the initial development of its next major AI model, codenamed Spud,... OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has relinquished direct oversight of the company’s safety and security...