OpenAI Says GPT-6.1 Terra Matches Its Flagship Astra at a Tenth of the Price
OpenAI says its new GPT-6.1 Terra clicks through apps and fills in forms as well as its flagship Astra for a tenth of the token price, and it carries the same Critical cybersecurity rating.
Microsoft Opens Voluntary Buyouts to a Quarter of Its Staff While AI Spending Soars
Microsoft opened voluntary buyouts to about a quarter of its staff, up to vice president level, and they have until early December to decide. The memo never says AI, but the $175 billion capex forecast s
ChatGPT Made BCG Consultants Look Like Data Scientists Until It Was Taken Away, Nature Study Finds
A newly peer-reviewed trial of 487 BCG consultants, run in 2024 on GPT-4-era ChatGPT, found the chatbot lifted their data science work but left no measurable new knowledge once it was gone. The study was
Political Campaigns Are Now Paying to Win the Chatbot Vote
A Reuters exclusive shows consultants pitching campaigns on gaming ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, including a proposal for a Massachusetts governor candidate priced at up to $50,000 a month. Reuters did not
Startup Founded by DOGE Alumni Says Its AI Agents Got Inside Anthropic in Under 12 Hours
Cathedral, a months-old security startup run by former DOGE staffers, says its AI agents reached Anthropic salary data and Slack messages in under 12 hours. Anthropic says only a limited set of systems w
Meta Is Selling Up to $95 Billion in Stock and Its Own Chip Suppliers Want In
Meta launched a record equity raise of up to $95 billion to pay for its AI build out, and Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have expressed interest in buying up to $5 billion of the shares.
