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OpenAI Is Selling a $70 Basketball and a $175 Quarter-Zip. Who Is the Customer?
The ChatGPT maker has quietly launched a line of branded merchandise, including a rubber basketball and academic-themed clothing. It is less clear who is supposed to buy any of it.

Microsoft is coaching its sales team to badmouth OpenAI and Anthropic
The company that built its AI business on partners' models is now telling salespeople those same models are slower, less accurate, and too expensive.

A small team, a big bet: Ode and Anthropic want to replace whole consulting firms with a few sharp engineers
A new joint venture is planting AI specialists inside large companies, backed by some of the biggest names in finance. The question is whether a tiny crew armed with the right tools can outperform an army of traditional consultants.

Mira Murati's AI Startup Just Released Its First Model. It Wants Companies to Own Their AI, Not Rent It.
Thinking Machines Lab launched Inkling, a free-to-download AI model built for businesses that want to customise their own AI instead of paying a monthly fee to OpenAI or Google.

AI Routing Sounded Like Easy Savings. The Reality Cost Twice as Much.
A team building smart AI systems thought sending simple tasks to cheaper AI models would cut costs. Then the numbers came in.

Meet Ode: The $1.5 Billion Company Anthropic Built to Put Its AI to Work Inside Your Business
Anthropic and a group of private equity firms have launched Ode, a new company that sends specialist engineers directly into businesses to implement AI. It is a bet that knowing how to use AI is now worth as much as building it.

Vint Cerf just joined a startup trying to give AI agents a verifiable ID on the internet
One of the people who built the internet thinks AI agents need passports. He's now helping design them.

Greg Brockman takes charge at OpenAI as Fidji Simo steps down due to illness
OpenAI's co-founder and president absorbs the company's product and commercial operations, just as OpenAI files quietly for a future stock-market debut.

Open-source AI models from China now dominate developer downloads. Does the frontier still matter?
Chinese open-weight models took 41% of Hugging Face downloads this spring. Developers are building with cheaper, customisable alternatives, and some big names think that shift is permanent.

57% of Enterprises Have Been Burned by a Confident AI Answer That Was Wrong. Here Is Why It Keeps Happening.
A new survey puts numbers on a problem that IT teams already know: AI agents give wrong answers with total certainty, and the root cause is not the model. It is the missing layer that tells the model what your business data actually means.

Nous Research Is Raising $75 Million at a $1.5 Billion Valuation. Here Is What Its Hermes Agent Actually Does.
The startup behind the open-source Hermes AI agent is closing a new funding round just three months after its last one. If you have never heard of Hermes, you are about to.

Apple is suing OpenAI over trade secrets, and the allegations are something else
Job candidates asked to smuggle in Apple hardware. Employees joking about snooping on Apple systems. The lawsuit reads like a corporate thriller.

AI Is Getting Expensive, and the Executives Paying for It Are Starting to Notice
A major survey finds nearly a third of senior business leaders cannot keep track of what AI is costing them. A new forecast says AI coding tools could soon cost more per developer than the developer's own salary.

Sunrun wants to turn your living room into a tiny AI data centre
The solar company is paying homeowners to host small computing units that sell AI processing power to big tech firms. Here is what that actually means for you.

Half the Fortune 500 Now Builds on Open AI Models. Here Is What That Means for You
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says open-source AI is growing fast, and the companies using it are not just the tech giants you might expect.