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.

All roads lead to Chrome

ChatGPT wouldn’t mind getting its paws on Chrome, if the courts end up prying it from Google’s iron grip.

Claude, ChatGPT, and other big names fail to fix even half the bugs in benchmark test

Despite Top Vole Sundar Pichai boasting that a quarter of Google's code now comes from AI and Mark Zuckerberg plotting to unleash AI models across Meta’s dev stack, Microsoft’s boffins have just thrown a bucket of cold water over the hype.

Getting more from it than ChatGPT

The Software King of the World, Microsoft, has been playing with DeepSeek’s R1, and it appears to be impressed.

Too many pictures, not enough silicon

OpenAI's shiny new toy is already running hot—literally.

Ancient religious fears

OpenAI’s flagship AI assistant, ChatGPT, is finding itself constrained by its efforts to appease religious groups.