SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI, which would make it the company’s biggest backer, CNBC has confirmed.

According to a recent legal memo, Silicon Valley's hottest business may be entirely based around criminal activity.

The state’s attorney general asked the company how it plans to transfer assets out of its charitable nonprofit.

Released last week, the Chinese company’s website claimed its new R1 artificial intelligence model sported “performance on par with OpenAI-o1.” OpenAI is the San Francisco-based company headed by Sam Altman. Its main product is ChatGPT.

OpenAI’s terms of use are under the “exclusive jurisdiction of courts in California and governed by California law,” senior advocate Amit Sibal, representing OpenAI, said during his arguments in the Delhi High Court. | Photo Credit: Reuters

OpenAI on Tuesday announced its biggest product launch since its enterprise rollout. It's called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use.

Elon Musk asked a judge to block OpenAI's attempt to transition from nonprofit to for-profit. It's not the first time he's feuded with CEO Sam Altman.

DeepSeek’s AI products have shaken up the American stock market and tech industry—but some experts are questioning how big of a threat the Chinese company really is.

DeepSeek spent far less money on developing a chatbot than US AI companies, but it may have done so by stealing OpenAI’s IP.

Another OpenAI safety researcher has left In a post on X, Steven Adler called the global race toward AGI a “very risky gamble.” OpenAI safety researcher Steven Ad

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.

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