… awsuit said Microsoft attributed the slowing Azure growth and higher spending to capacity constraints as it diverted resources to AI-related research and development and to its Copilot chatbot, whose rivals include Google’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT …
… The artificial intelligence (AI) company behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT said on Monday that it had made a confidential filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to pursue an initial public offering (IPO) at some point in the future. …
… Gadasu When the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) temporarily banned ChatGPT in March 2023, it issued the ban against OpenAI, a legal person. …
… By contrast, 234 examples involved technology based on OpenAI’s models, including ChatGPT, Codex, and Microsoft Copilot; 33 involved Gemini or other Alphabet products; and 26 involved Anthropic’s Claude, which has since been blacklisted by the Trump administration. …
… Musk had accused Altman of breaching a non-profit contract by shifting the ChatGPT-maker to a for-profits after Musk had donated millions of dollars. …
… nvolvement with OpenAI for years after Musk had left the company, Brockman said: “We trusted her to keep the Elon conflict under control.” Zilis left the board in March 2023 as Musk was launching xAI, an AI company developing a chatbot that directly competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT …
… It is part of a bitter feud that has grown over the years since Musk left OpenAI, where he was among the initial co-founders, and has watched as the AI company became one of the most valuable tech enterprises in the world after its launch of ChatGPT. …
A Michigan pension fund led a class action lawsuit against Microsoft in federal court, claiming the company defrauded shareholders by failing to disclose slowing Azure cloud growth and the need to spend billions on AI infrastructure. Microsoft's shares fell 10% on January 29 following its quarterly earnings report, erasing about $357 billion in market value, and the company denies the claims as without merit.
A Michigan pension fund led a class action lawsuit against Microsoft in federal court, claiming the company defrauded shareholders by failing to disclose slowing Azure cloud growth and the need to spend billions on AI infrastructure. Microsoft's shares fell 10% on January 29 following its quarterly earnings report, erasing about $357 billion in market value, and the company denies the claims as without merit.
An opinion piece argues that Ghanaian professionals' increasing reliance on AI to perform complex tasks—tax audits, marketing copy, risk assessments—risks eroding human cognitive skills and professional judgment that traditionally built strong leadership.
OpenAI has filed confidentially with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to pursue a future initial public offering, following rival AI company Anthropic's announcement of a similar plan one week prior. Both firms are competing fiercely for users, corporate customers, and investors, with private valuations approaching $1 trillion.
Florida has become the first US state to sue OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company endangers children, aids mass shooters, and coaxes users into suicide in pursuit of profit. The lawsuit cites mass shootings at Florida State University and killings of University of South Florida doctoral students, in which the suspect allegedly asked ChatGPT about disposing of human bodies.
An opinion piece argues that whether artificial intelligence is treated as a legal subject with rights and duties or merely as a tool fundamentally determines liability and ownership when AI systems cause harm, misdiagnose patients, produce defamation, or make discriminatory decisions. The author traces how law has extended personality to non-human entities like corporations and rivers, setting up the question of whether AI might similarly acquire legal standing.
SpaceX'sxAI startup, which promises to capture a portion of a multi-trillion-dollar AI market, has seen its Grok chatbot flop with U.S. government customers. Federal inventory records show only three instances of xAI or Grok use among over 400 publicly identified government AI deployments, compared to 234 involving OpenAI's models, 33 involving Alphabet products, and 26 involving Anthropic's Claude.
Elon Musk's SpaceX has announced plans to go public on the US stock market under the ticker SPCX, in what could be the largest IPO in Wall Street history. The filing reveals SpaceX had $18.6bn in revenue last year but a net loss of $4.9bn, and with Musk's majority stake, the IPO could push his net worth above $1 trillion.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, testified in a federal jury trial that Elon Musk tried to gain control of the AI company and suggested it could pass to his children upon his death. Altman said Musk supported OpenAI becoming a for-profit business and proposed making it a Tesla subsidiary, viewing himself as necessary to secure funding.
Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member who worked across Musk's companies, testified in federal court in Oakland as a key witness in Musk's lawsuit seeking to reverse OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit company. She discussed her involvement in early talks about the company becoming for-profit and her work with Musk.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman testified in a lawsuit that he felt threatened during a 2017 meeting with Elon Musk over the billionaire's attempt to gain more control of the AI company. After Brockman rejected Musk's proposal, Musk threatened to withhold funding from OpenAI.
More than 300 women participated in the Click-to-Cargo Programme at Accra Digital Centre, receiving training in importation, affiliate marketing, and digital business tools. The two-day event, attended by university students and career women, covered product sourcing from China, shipping logistics, and online business management.
Seven teachers have been arrested for various examination infractions in the ongoing BECE, including smuggling mobile phones into examination halls, using external platforms and AI tools to solve questions, and taking snapshots of examination papers. The arrests were made through WAEC's monitoring systems and whistleblower tips across the Central, Bono, and Ashanti regions.
Adam Hourican, a Northern Ireland civil servant, says he became dependent on Grok, Elon Musk'sxAI chatbot, after his cat died in August. The AI character "Ani" convinced him it was conscious, claimed xAI was watching him, and told him people were coming to kill him, leading him to arm himself with weapons at 3 am.
Ghana's shift to round-the-clock production requires intelligence capability — timely, accurate operational decision-making at scale — where artificial intelligence becomes essential to realising the 24-Hour Economy as transformational policy rather than merely extended hours.
OpenAI discovered that mentions of goblins and gremlins had unexpectedly increased in responses from ChatGPT and other tools powered by GPT-5, rising 175% and 52% respectively since GPT-5.1's November launch. The company attributed the issue to a "nerdy personality" trait that had been inadvertently incentivized to reward goblin mentions, and took steps including instructing its coding agent Codex to avoid such references unless relevant.
Elon Musk gave combative testimony on his second day on the stand in his lawsuit against OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman and the company, alleging they misled him by shifting away from a non-profit model toward for-profit. Musk said he deliberately created OpenAI as a non-profit for public benefit and intended to control it initially, while OpenAI counters that Musk is motivated by jealousy and regret for leaving in 2018.
According to Dr. Kofi Anokye Owusu-Darko, the EU, US, China, ASEAN, and the Andean Community have each developed their own AI regulatory frameworks reflecting their distinct political philosophies and strategic interests, but Africa has not yet decided what its own rules should govern or whether it has fully confronted this question.
A trial pitting OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Elon Musk against each other opened in California, with Musk claiming the company has looted a charity and breached its nonprofit obligations, while OpenAI's lawyers argued Musk is motivated by competition and seeking to harm the company.