OpenAI banned Russia-origin ChatGPT accounts tied to a fake think tank, exposing how AI helped scale a covert campaign across Western social platforms.

OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño inference benchmarks that beat Nvidia systems on speed and efficiency, but limited deployment and vendor-supplied data temper the claim.

Google Cloud is targeting financial services and legal teams with Gemini Enterprise, backed by Devoteam and iManage, as firms seek practical AI deployment.

Meta is reportedly preparing Hatch, a paid consumer AI agent, and the Watermelon model, signaling a push to monetize its expanding AI investment.

Keenable raised $26 million to build web-scale search for AI agents, targeting a gap left by APIs designed for human users and agentic workloads.

NEC’s Orchestrating Future Fund has invested in U.S.-based Dexmate, backing a humanoid robotics and physical AI developer as the sector matures.

ByteDance is reportedly combining AI tools inside Doubao, intensifying its contest with Tencent over China’s next major consumer AI platform and user attention.

The SEC is reportedly subpoenaing banks tied to Situational Awareness after an AI-stock downturn battered the high-profile hedge fund and its backers.

Block’s free Goose agent gives developers a local alternative to Claude Code, trading cloud convenience and model quality for privacy, control, and lower cost.

Ox Alpha, a free reasoning model on OpenRouter, is drawing attention for coding and agentic work while its anonymous developer remains unconfirmed.

Thomson Reuters is spending $40 million on its own legal AI model, seeking lower costs and control over proprietary data and high-volume workflows.