OpenAI closes $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, Softbank
cnbc - OpenAI's latest funding round is even bigger than its prior financing, which was a record amount for private tech companies.
- Breaking: OpenAI says it closed $110B mega‑round (15)
- On-site: Amazon/NVIDIA deals, Trainium and compute commitments (6)
- OTHER: user metrics and market reaction (2)
- Scrutiny: conditional tranches, installments, skeptical reporting (5)
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Breaking: OpenAI says it closed $110B mega‑round
On-site: Amazon/NVIDIA deals, Trainium and compute commitments
OTHER: user metrics and market reaction
Scrutiny: conditional tranches, installments, skeptical reporting
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Burger King rolls out AI headsets that track employee 'friendliness'
bbc - The fast-food chain is testing OpenAI-powered headsets that monitor staff interactions with customers.
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Amazon’s $50 Billion OpenAI Investment Could Hinge on AGI
PYMNTS / pymnts - Amazon’s proposed $50 billion investment in OpenAI reportedly has some conditions attached. As The Information reported Wednesday (Feb. 25), sources in contact with OpenAI executives say the decision to invest could depend on whether the artificial intell…
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OpenAI Announces Major Expansion of London Office
Joel Khalili / wired - The San Francisco-based AI lab is growing its research team in London. The move puts it in direct competition with Google DeepMind for top research talent in the UK.
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Canada demands more OpenAI safety protocols after B.C. mass shooting
Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - Canada is calling on OpenAI to implement stricter safety measures in the wake of the Feb. 10 mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. On Tuesday, OpenAI representatives met with government officials in Ottawa after it was revealed that the tech company had ba…
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Perplexity Launches Computer, an Agent Platform Orchestrating 19 AI Models at Once
Maria Garcia / implicator - Perplexity Computer uses 19 AI models with Claude Opus 4.6 as orchestrator. Max subscribers get access at $200/month with per-token billing.
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Judge dismisses Elon Musk’s xAI trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - US District Judge Rita F. Lin dismissed a trade secret lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s xAI against OpenAI. The judge ruled that xAI’s complaint failed to allege misconduct directly by OpenAI itself, instead attributing alleged actions to eight former employe…
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OpenAI Calls In the Consultants For Its Enterprise Push
BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI has formed a multi-year "Frontier Alliance" with four consulting heavyweights to accelerate enterprise adoption of its no-code AI agent platform, OpenAI Frontier. TechCrunch reports: The alliance includes multi-year partnerships between OpenAI and …
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Sam Altman is tired of ‘unfair’ critiques about AI’s energy use. Climate experts say his defensive stance is misguided
Kristin Toussaint / fastcompany - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has defended the resource-intensive use of AI by comparing it to all the energy—and food—that humans require, sparking a wave of backlash across social media. That comparison, experts in climate and tech spaces say, is misguided, dow…
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Stargate AI data centers for OpenAI reportedly delayed by squabbles between partners — sources say OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank disagreed on who would have ultimate control of the planned data centers
tomshardware - OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank have reportedly spent several months negotiating over who would have ultimate control of the data centers planned for Stargate.
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OpenAI’s Smart Speaker to Cost $200-$300, Ship in 2027
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - OpenAI has priced its AI smart speaker at $200–$300 for an early 2027 launch, featuring persistent listening, a camera, and facial recognition for purchases.The post OpenAI’s Smart Speaker to Cost $200-$300, Ship in 2027 appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too
msmash / slashdot - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back on growing concerns about AI's environmental footprint, dismissing claims about ChatGPT's water consumption as "totally fake" and arguing that the fairer way to measure AI's energy use is to compare it against humans.…
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OpenAI teams up with consulting giants to boost its enterprise business
Luke Kawa, Jon Keegan / sherwood - This alliances come amid an industrywide love affair with Anthropic’s Claude Code, which has juiced the startup’s revenue projections.
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Tumbler Ridge suspect's ChatGPT account banned before shooting
bbc - OpenAI said the account's activity did not meet the threshold to flag it to authorities when it was identified.
- ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting. (5)
- Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs. (4)
- OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada. (3)
- Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea. (1)
ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting.
Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs.
OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada.
Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea.
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OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030
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- AI compute demand shakes chipmakers, data-center financings and stocks (5)
- Altman defends AI energy use, mocks space data-centers claim (7)
- ChatGPT ads, pricing shifts, usage trends and safety issues (6)
- OpenAI warns $600B compute bill, revenue and accounting questions (8)
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OpenAI’s hardware debut may come in the form of a camera-equipped ChatGPT speaker
digitaltrends - A new report suggest OpenAI's first hardwre product could be a speaker equipped with a camera, rather than the wearable hinted at in an earlier leak.The post OpenAI’s hardware debut may come in the form of a camera-equipped ChatGPT speaker appeared first …
- Jony Ive leads design of OpenAI's first home device (4)
- OpenAI's camera-equipped ChatGPT speaker and hardware roadmap (6)
- Other OpenAI corporate news and unrelated updates (2)
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Jony Ive leads design of OpenAI's first home device
OpenAI's camera-equipped ChatGPT speaker and hardware roadmap
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OpenAI Announce Partnerships With TCS, JioHotstar, MakeMyTrip at the India AI Impact Summit 2026
Azdhan / medianama - OpenAI revealed its plans to expand beyond Delhi at the AI IMpact Summit by setting up new offices in Bengaluru & Mumbai, and partnering with companies like TCS, Pine Labs, JioHotStar, MakeMyTripThe post OpenAI Announce Partnerships With TCS, JioHotstar, …
- Governments and panels debate AI control, safety and policy (4)
- India's homegrown AI: startups chase global breakthrough (3)
- OpenAI and Big Tech announce major India deals and remarks (5)
- Other: color, infrastructure, payments and law enforcement (5)
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Governments and panels debate AI control, safety and policy
India's homegrown AI: startups chase global breakthrough
OpenAI and Big Tech announce major India deals and remarks
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Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $30 billion in OpenAI, source says
cnbc - The investment is separate from the $100 billion infrastructure agreement that OpenAI and Nvidia announced in September.
- Chip startup funding: model-specific AI chips raise $169M (1)
- Nvidia pivots: $30B equity replaces $100B infrastructure plan (11)
- OpenAI mega-round nears $100B, valuation targets near $850B (2)
Chip startup funding: model-specific AI chips raise $169M
Nvidia pivots: $30B equity replaces $100B infrastructure plan
OpenAI mega-round nears $100B, valuation targets near $850B
Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 9:21 pm / permalink 19444 / 14 stories in 15 days
New benchmark shows AI agents can exploit most smart contract vulnerabilities on their own
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - OpenAI and crypto investment firm Paradigm have built EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can find, fix, and exploit security vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts.The article New benchmark shows AI agents can exploit most smart c…
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OpenAI aims to secure $100 Billion in latest funding round, reportedly aiming for an $800 billion valuation — Parties offering up cash include Nvidia, Microsoft, SoftBank, and more
tomshardware - OpenAI may be about to secure as much as $100 billion in funding, which will go some way to offsetting the $1.4 trillion is has pledged to expend over the next eight years. This round of investment is said to come from other major tech firms in the space,…
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