
OpenAI jumps into chipmaking with Broadcom
ChatGPT outfit wants to ditch Nvidia addiction
OpenAI is moving into chip manufacturing next year in a bid to feed its AI addiction and loosen its ties with Nvidia’s pricey silicon.

Microsoft builds its own AI models
Copilot gets high-speed voice generation while foundation model debuts on LMArena
Software King of the World, Microsoft has trundled out two new in-house AI efforts, one already talking inside Copilot and the other still in the test arena.

OpenAI’s corporate restructuring could drag into 2026
Microsoft standoff stalls SoftBank billions
OpenAI’s attempts to restructure its business have hit the skids as it locks horns with the software King of the World, Microsoft, leaving billions in SoftBank cash hanging in the balance.

OpenAI throws open its models to keep pace with China
Coughs up open-weight models after DeepSeek rattled its cage
OpenAI has released a pair of open-weight AI models, months after it was outflanked by Chinese upstart DeepSeek and left scrambling to rewrite its strategy.

OpenAI snares $8.3bn as it angles for IPO
Investors line up for a slice
OpenAI has managed to wangle $8.3 billion from venture capitalists and private equity outfits desperate not to miss the AI hype train, as it eyes an eventual IPO.

Alphabet rides AI wave
ChatGPT hasn’t killed Google’s cash cow
Alphabet is laughing all the way to the bank with another quarter of fat profits, proving the panic over chatbots eating Google’s lunch was premature.

OpenAI's UK arm swimming in cash after ChatGPT boom
Profits soar while government rolls out the red carpet
OpenAI’s Blighty outfit has gone from pocket change to piles of cash in barely a year.

Musk hunts for another $12 billion to fuel xAI’s AI arms race
Looking down the back of the sofa
Elon Musk is scraping together yet more billions to keep xAI from falling behind in the blood-soaked artificial intelligence arms race.

AI search traffic jumps as brands scramble to keep up
Chatbots chip away at Google’s dominance
AI-powered chatbots are fast becoming a go-to for online answers, eating into the long-standing grip of traditional search engines and giving marketers another headache.

OpenAI plans own browser
Altman eyes Google's ad cash and your data
OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to lob an AI-powered browser into the ring, taking a swing at Alphabet’s Chrome and hoping to nick a chunk of the Google empire’s advertising goldmine.