US District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco has dismissed a trade secret lawsuit by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI against rival OpenAI. The lawsuit, originally filed in September, claimed that former xAI employees took confidential information, including source code related to the Grok chatbot, when they left for new jobs at OpenAI. Judge Lin ruled that xAI failed to show that OpenAI induced the former employees to misappropriate trade secrets or that they disclosed xAI [...]

SK hynix is reviewing ChatGPT Enterprise for internal use, joining a wave of adoption among Korea's largest companies. The move follows Samsung Electronics' rollout of external generative AI to employees. SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung stated that the company is weighing the security and system architecture of ChatGPT Enterprise, with a focus on introducing external AI gradually in areas unrelated to national core technologies. This cautious approach reflects the company's need to balance employee access to frontier [...]

OpenAI is reportedly considering drastic token price cuts to win back enterprise customers from Anthropic, according to the Wall Street Journal. This move comes as Anthropic's annualized revenue reportedly grew more than fivefold in under six months, driven by its AI coding agent Claude Code. DeepSeek's open-source models already deliver comparable performance at a fraction of the cost, raising questions about whether Western AI labs have been overcharging. Enterprise AI spending is unsustainable, with companies like Uber [...]

A coalition of state attorneys general has launched an investigation into OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence company. The investigation, led by New York's attorney general, seeks documents related to advertising, user data, and the treatment of minors and seniors. OpenAI has stated that it takes the concerns seriously and intends to engage constructively with the offices of the state attorneys general. The company has faced numerous lawsuits and controversies, including allegations of copyright infringement and its role [...]

OpenAI's ChatGPT has reached one billion monthly active users, surpassing major platforms like Google Maps and TikTok, according to Sensor Tower. This milestone comes despite growing public skepticism, worker privacy concerns, and high-profile dropouts following OpenAI's classified defense contract. ChatGPT maintains its market lead, while competitors like Anthropic's Claude experience triple-digit growth as rival firms prepare for public listings. The achievement marks a record-breaking milestone, with ChatGPT becoming the fastest app to reach one billion monthly active [...]

OpenAI announced it will acquire Ona, a startup providing secure cloud environments for artificial intelligence agents. Ona's technology will enhance OpenAI's coding assistant, Codex, enabling it to handle longer tasks and facilitating agent deployment. The acquisition is subject to closing conditions, and Ona's staff will join OpenAI's Codex team. OpenAI aims to strengthen its position in the AI market, where it competes with Anthropic. Codex supports over 5 million weekly active users, and OpenAI has made several [...]

Visa has integrated its payment infrastructure with ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to recommend and purchase retail products without human intervention. This deployment allows autonomous agents to process user prompts, evaluate merchant catalogues, and complete transactions using Visa's payment rails. The integration bypasses closed-loop architecture, connecting the open-web reasoning capabilities of a large language model to a universal transaction network. Users can command the agent to procure an item, and the model handles vendor selection, product comparison, and [...]