OpenAI is cutting ties with AI coding tool Cursor following SpaceX's acquisition, citing terms of service concerns rooted in past violations by Elon Musk's companies, with a shutoff date set for November 12, 2026.
OpenAI's limited-time discounts on its Terra and Luna models trigger explosive usage growth — Luna surging 13.8x — while stealing market share from rival AI labs, and nearly a third of new users keep paying full price after the deals expire.
Anthropic and OpenAI are aggressively pursuing lucrative national security contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, raising urgent alarms from human rights advocates who warn that deploying AI in military and intelligence operations risks civilian harm, erodes accountability for lethal force, and threatens national security without proper safeguards.
Nvidia acquires open-source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a bold strategic move to dominate the full AI stack beyond chips, while defending against chip-building rivals like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic — though experts warn the deal could compromise the platform's ecosystem neutrality.
OpenAI launches ads on ChatGPT in India with 50 brand partners, targeting over 100 million weekly active users as the company aggressively pushes revenue growth ahead of a potential IPO, reporting $6.7 billion in Q2 2026 revenue and eyeing 220 million paying subscribers by 2030.
OpenAI launches commercial operations in São Paulo as Brazil emerges as one of ChatGPT's three largest global markets, with users sending 215 million daily messages and AI projected to add nearly R$1 trillion to Brazil's economy by 2030.
Nvidia is reportedly acquiring AI model hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a move that could give the chipmaker dominant control over the open-weight AI ecosystem while countering rivals OpenAI and Anthropic's push into custom hardware.
Anthropic secures a massive $45 billion cloud deal with UK-based Nscale, locking in 460 megawatts of AI compute capacity at a West Virginia data center powered by Nvidia's next-gen Vera Rubin chips, set to go live in 2027.
Salesforce and Anthropic unveil 'Claudeforce,' a groundbreaking plugin embedding Salesforce data directly into Claude with 37 pre-built sales skills, marking the first time Salesforce has attached its iconic 'force' suffix to another company's product, sending Salesforce shares surging 12% in extended trading.
Google is nearing a $1.5 billion deal to license technology from AI coding startup Mechanize, signaling an intensifying race among tech giants to dominate the AI coding agent market.