As OpenAI nears a $100 billion funding round and Anthropic closes a $30 billion raise, at least twelve direct OpenAI investors — including Founders Fund, Sequoia, Iconiq, and BlackRock — have also backed Anthropic, shattering a longstanding venture capital conflict-of-interest norm.
Canada's AI Minister summoned OpenAI's top safety representatives to Ottawa after the company admitted it flagged — but did not report to police — the ChatGPT account of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter eight months before the deadly attack.
Bridgewater Associates projects that the world's largest tech companies will collectively invest approximately $650 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure in 2026, while warning of significant economic concentration risks.
A US official revealed that China's DeepSeek trained its latest AI model on Nvidia's most advanced Blackwell chips, despite US export restrictions, raising urgent questions about the effectiveness of American chip controls.
IBM stock suffered its steepest single-day decline since 2000, falling 13%, after Anthropic unveiled an AI-powered tool capable of modernizing legacy COBOL code, threatening IBM's core mainframe business.
