OpenAI submits confidential filing for market launch with US authorities

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President Donald Trump has confirmed he is in discussions with AI companies about arrangements that would give the American public a financial stake in the industry’s growth. While Trump did not name specific companies, CNBC reported that the administration has been in talks with OpenAI about a potential government equity stake, some of which could […]

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Most of Apple's current AI ideas are roughly the same as everyone else's AI ideas. A chatbot you can ask questions; quick ways to create or summarize text; bizarre, borderline creepy image-generation tools. The company spent most of its WWDC keynote playing catch-up with the state of the AI art, announcing Siri features you can already find on Android phones and in the Claude and ChatGPT apps. The pitch, in so many cases, is just "this thing you know, but on your iPhone now." But a few minutes after I downloaded the first developer beta of iPadOS 26 (I didn't want to risk it on my Mac or my iPhone, both of which are too important to my dail … Read the full story at The Verge.

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati made her first major public appearance in roughly 18 months at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, using the platform to preview her startup Thinking Machines Lab’s core technology and address the circumstances that first thrust her into the spotlight. Murati described what the company calls “interaction models” — a departure […]

Also: Anthropic advocates for a ‘pause’ on AI advancement – days after filing to go public on the US stock market Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, the US tech editor at the Guardian. Today we’re discussing Donald Trump’s neediness for AI and the contradictions of Anthropic’s safety-first posture. OpenAI confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market Apple debuts revamped ‘Siri AI’ and new child safety features for iPhones and iPads The Guardian view on children and the internet: rolling back big tech’s untrammelled power | Editorial Silicon Valley including Meta has embraced Maga politics, says Nick Clegg Bernie Sanders’ AI sovereign wealth fund plan is good. But we think this is better | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts ‘A driver of political violence’: how the breakneck AI boom is fu