Opal, the company famous for making a fancy webcam, has pivoted to making other consumer electronics. Fueled by big investments from OpenAI and Samsung, it’s working on an audio gadget first.
Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new "flagship" model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year - before then, it had relied on OpenAI's models. The two companies recently renegotiated their deal to loosen ties.
According to Microsoft, MAI-Thinking-1 is a "medium-sized model" that "matches leading models" on "key" software engineering benchmarks. Microsoft says the company "trained it from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models."
As for other models announced today, t …
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OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex, meant to expand the agentic tool’s uses in the workplace. Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being used for knowledge work, finding its uses go […]
Stock market filing illustrates AI company’s meteoric rise, while California’s tech billionaires pour cash into elections
Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. This week in tech, we’re discussing Anthropic’s meteoric rise, both theological and financial, and California’s unprecedented infusion of political cash from Silicon Valley.
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Travelers built an AI-powered Claim Assistant with OpenAI to guide customers through filing claims, provide 24/7 support, and scale operations during peak demand.
A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed the first state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company ignored internal and external safety warnings while prioritising competitive dominance over user protection. The 83-page complaint links ChatGPT to a mass shooting at Florida State University, suicides, and other violent incidents, claiming OpenAI misrepresented the safety of […]
Anthropic has submitted a confidential draft registration statement to the SEC for a proposed initial public offering, less than a week after closing a $65 billion Series H round that pushed its valuation to $965 billion. The filing marks a dramatic arc for the company, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees and long considered […]
