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.

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.

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.

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.

Corporates don't want Copilot

Software King of the World, Microsoft is finding out the hard way that even a decades-long grip on the enterprise world does not mean workers will touch its AI with a bargepole.

Huge deal wobbles as OpenAI pushes for profit pivot

Software King of the World, Microsoft is ready to bin its negotiations with OpenAI as the ChatGPT outfit tries to morph into a fully for-profit company.

Outage sparks meltdown as OpenAI scrambles to fix it

ChatGPT fell on its face yesterday bringing misery to both free-riders and those daft enough to shell out for Plus. The outage saw thousands of users staring into the digital void as OpenAI’s servers decided they'd had enough.

Silicon Valley’s favourite techno-futurist wants your iris

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin project has decided that what Britons need in 2025 is to queue up in London and have their eyeballs scanned by a shiny metal orb.

Charity keeps the leash as Altman plots trillion-dollar AI dreams

OpenAI has abruptly U-turned on its plans to go full corporate, deciding instead to let its nonprofit arm keep control of the outfit’s shiny new for-profit structure.

Vole's AI dreams tun to nightmares

Software King of the World, Microsoft’s big AI push is falling flat, with its Copilot assistant stuck at 20 million users a week while ChatGPT soars past 400 million. Despite stuffing Copilot into Windows, slapping a dedicated key on keyboards, and burning billions, the software giant cannot get punters to care.