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SoftBank is considering a new investment in OpenAI that could amount to $30 billion. This would further strengthen the Japanese technology conglomerate's position with one of the most influential AI developers. The plans were reported on by Bloomberg. The talks are still in the early stages, but they once again underscore the scale of founder Masayoshi Son's ambitions in the field of artificial intelligence.

The Canadian film-maker, who won an Oscar in 2023 for the documentary Navalny, first became interested in the topic while experimenting with tools released by OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT. The sophistication of the public tools the ability to produce whole paragraphs in seconds, or produce illustrations both thrilled and unnerved him. AI was already radically shaping the filmmaking industry, and proclamations on the promise and peril of AI were everywhere, with little way for people outside the tech industry to evaluate them.

The OpenAI CEO sent employees a message on Slack criticizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement - and appears to have taken the opportunity to also take a subtle jab at his rival, Mark Zuckerberg. The reference can be found where Altman wrote that OpenAI aims to "not get blown around by changing fashions." "We didn't start talking about masculine corporate energy when that was popular," Altman told employees.

While not a full picture of OpenAI's workforce, the snapshot underscores how heavily frontier AI labs continue to draw from a small cluster of top research universities - and how concentrated elite AI talent remains.

Are OpenAI's recent moves a bold leap forward or a risky gamble that could cost them their dominance in the AI race? Below, Matt Wolfe takes you through how the company's latest decisions, like introducing ads in free tiers, launching budget subscriptions, and claiming intellectual property rights on AI-assisted discoveries, are sparking heated debates across the tech world. While these strategies aim to expand OpenAI's reach and diversify its revenue streams, they've also raised concerns about user trust, data privacy, and the company's long-term vision.

We are planning to dramatically slow down how quickly we grow because we think we'll be able to do so much more with fewer people,

to break through language barriers and offer more natural interactions. With the latest OpenAI models including GPT-5.2, ServiceNow will unlock a new class of AI-powered automation for the world's largest companies.

The AI business is beginning a global rollout of an age prediction tool to determine whether or not a user is a minor. "The model looks at a combination of behavioral and account-level signals, including how long an account has existed, typical times of day when someone is active, usage patterns over time,and a user's stated age," the company's announcement states.

Running through the AI poster child's achievements over the last couple of years, Friar said that the business's compute grew 9.5x from 2023 to 2025 from 0.2 GW to around 1.9 GW. Meanwhile, "revenue followed the same curve" by growing 10x in the same period from $2 billion to more than $20 billion in 2025. "We firmly believe that more compute in these periods would have led to faster customer adoption and monetization," she said.

Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of Applications, announced the hiring coup in a post on social media platform X Wednesday, saying that Brett Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz are all returning to the AI juggernaut where they worked previously.Simo said on social media that Zoph would report to her, with Metz and Schoenholz reporting to Zoph. Zoph and Metz were officially cofounders of Thinking Machines, while Schoenholz was a member of the "founding team" of researchers and engineers.