OpenAI is reportedly launching a phone for ChatGPT

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade." This isn't the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with former Apple designer Jony Ive, however. As shown in the teaser, OpenAI is launching the device in partnership with Work Louder, a company that sells an array of mechanical keyboards and macro pads with mappable keys, dials, and switches. The silhouette of the device shown by OpenAI looks a bit like Work … Read the full story at The Verge.

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.

Accelerating secure AI deployment for U.S. agencies and commercial enterprises MCLEAN, Va., June 29, 2026 —Booz Allen Hamilton today announced a new partnership with OpenAI to promote advanced AI innovation […] The post Booz Allen and OpenAI Partner to Deploy Mission-Ready AI appeared first on AIwire.

As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite. Some doubt they can afford to stay.

A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that's better suited to the AI era. The former version of the bill, first introduced in June 2022, prohibited data brokers from collecting and selling health and location data. Four years later, it's expanded to ban other companies from selling such data to brokers, and to specifically cover … Read the full story at The Verge.

Apple’s ongoing problems with RAM shortages and higher prices won’t be solved anytime soon, because rapidly accelerating demand for high-end AI memory is devouring the consumer electronics industry.  GoPro has already warned it might go out of business — and the scale of the crunch has prompted analysts to call it an “absolute existential crisis” for smaller tech firms. An endless night The whole issue might get worse. Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes the supply/demand crisis will deepen through 2027. He expects up to 20% of the remaining memory manufacturing capacity currently going to consumer electronics could be diverted to feed data centers in the coming year. That’s a message of doom to smaller firms, and the Android market will be eaten up.  It’s lazy thinking to see Apple as a villain in this scenario. The company might have been charging more for add-on memory than market rates, but there were real technical reasons to do so. And while critics might be castigating Cup

The clampdown may inadvertently strengthen global open-source AI, challenging US dominance and accelerating foreign AI development. The post White House clampdown on OpenAI, Anthropic could boost open-source AI appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The Stargate AI data center initiative could reshape energy markets and create new revenue streams for crypto miners, impacting tech infrastructure. The post SoftBank collaborates with OpenAI and Oracle on Stargate AI data center in Ohio appeared first on Crypto Briefing.