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Stripe to buy start-up OpenRouter in $8bn deal

Payment processor’s largest-ever acquisition is part of broader effort to expand into AI economy

Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub

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Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.

Jalapeño's first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference

Since announcing Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first custom inference chip, we have been testing the chip and the system built around it. The results show a significant performance advance: Jalapeño can serve more AI work per unit of power while also returning responses more quickly. Jalapeño delivers both higher throughput and lower latency with one architecture, where existing hardware systems often have to make a tradeoff between the two.

Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies, with the aim of getting flaws patched faster.

The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket

“We will put the booster back into service for another flight as soon as possible.”

This week in the big AI data center buildout.

AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:

How KFC and Taco Bell's top technologist is embracing AI and automation across 63,000 restaurants

When Jim Dausch joined restaurant operator Yum Brands in late 2024, one of his first orders of business was to find a way to ensure Pizza Hut’s food was delivered as hot as possible.

An Engineering Team for the Cost of Codex

Plus: How AI helped build the Thesis website, an alien companion bringing in $4 million a year, and why the future of harness engineering is doing less

Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute

Watch as Silicon Data's Steve Hou joins the Equity podcast to break down the index tracking what it costs to rent a GPU.

T-Mobile 'chopped a cable' to expel Chinese hackers from its network

The U.S. phone provider escaped a large-scale breach of its network after identifying Chinese-backed hackers early on.

OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?

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