OpenAI announced Monday that it has acquired Hiro Finance, an AI‑driven personal finance tool, in what appears to be an acquihire. The deal, first reported by TechCrunch, includes no disclosed financial terms. Hiro’s founder, Ethan Bloch, said the service will shut down on April 20, giving users until May 13 to export their data. While OpenAI has not detailed plans for a dedicated financial‑planning product, the move follows a series of recent purchases aimed at bolstering its AI ecosystem, including the Prism research app and a media company, TBPN. Read more →

A California woman identified as Jane Doe has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company's ChatGPT tool amplified her ex‑boyfriend's delusions and enabled a months‑long stalking campaign. The suit, lodged in San Francisco County Superior Court, says OpenAI ignored three internal warnings that the user posed a threat, including a flag for mass‑casualty weapons activity. Doe seeks punitive damages, a temporary restraining order to block the user’s account, and preservation of chat logs for discovery. OpenAI has suspended the account but has not complied with the other demands. Read more →

At the HumanX AI conference in San Francisco, attendees repeatedly cited Anthropic's Claude as the leading chatbot for business and coding tasks, while OpenAI's ChatGPT received noticeably less buzz. Industry insiders linked the shift to OpenAI's recent controversies, product missteps and a new $100 subscription tier aimed at recapturing market share. The contrast highlighted growing competition in the agentic AI space, with Anthropic gaining ground among enterprise users. Read more →

San Francisco‑based Anthropic is weighing the development of its own artificial‑intelligence chips, according to three sources familiar with the effort. The move comes as the company’s annualized revenue run rate for its Claude models surged past $30 billion, up from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025. Anthropic still runs workloads on a mix of Google‑Broadcom TPUs, Amazon‑custom silicon and Nvidia GPUs, and has just secured a long‑term deal for 3.5 gigawatts of TPU capacity beginning in 2027. The firm has not yet formed a dedicated chip team and may continue buying off‑the‑shelf silicon. Read more →

OpenAI announced a new $100‑per‑month Pro subscription aimed at developers who use its Codex coding tool. The tier offers five‑times higher token limits than the existing $20‑per‑month Plus plan and includes all features of the $200‑per‑month Pro tier, such as unlimited access to Instant and Thinking models. The move addresses growing demand for AI‑assisted coding, which has surged more than 70% month‑over‑month, and provides a middle‑ground option between the low‑cost Plus plan and the premium $200 offering. Read more →

A federal appeals court denied Anthropic's motion for a stay, allowing the Pentagon to continue its blacklisting of the AI firm amid an active military conflict. The judges emphasized the government's authority over national‑security procurement and warned that overruling the Department of Defense could impede vital operations. Trade group CCIA warned the move could set a risky precedent for U.S. tech innovation, arguing that supply‑chain risk designations should be reserved for foreign adversaries and follow established procurement rules. Read more →

Meta unveiled its latest artificial‑intelligence model, Muse Spark, on Wednesday, marking the first product rollout since the company assembled a high‑cost superintelligence team. Built by Meta Superintelligence Labs and led by Scale AI co‑founder Alexandr Wang, the model—internally codenamed Avocado—already runs the Meta AI app and website and will soon power WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and upcoming AI glasses. Meta describes Muse Spark as a fast, small model capable of tackling complex scientific, mathematical and health queries, while hinting at larger models in the pipeline as it strives to close the gap with rivals like Google and OpenAI. Read more →

A coalition of YouTube creators has sued Amazon in a Seattle federal court, alleging the company used automated tools to download millions of videos without permission to train its Nova Reel generative‑AI model. The plaintiffs, which include Ted Entertainment—behind the H3 Podcast and h3h3 Productions—assert that Amazon’s scraping violated copyright law and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. They seek monetary damages and an injunction to halt the practice. Amazon has not commented as the case joins a wave of high‑profile lawsuits testing the limits of AI training and fair‑use defenses. Read more →

OpenAI, fresh from a $122 billion funding round and an anticipated IPO, is grappling with a cascade of executive departures, halted projects and mounting legal pressure. The AI lab’s recent Pentagon contract, the abrupt cancellation of its video‑generation app Sora, and a looming lawsuit from co‑founder Elon Musk have sparked questions about the company’s stability and its path to profitability. Read more →

Anthropic announced Tuesday that its newest frontier AI model, Mythos, will be deployed in a restricted preview for twelve leading tech firms under a new initiative called Project Glasswing. The model, described as the company’s most powerful to date, will scan both proprietary and open‑source software for zero‑day vulnerabilities. Anthropic says Mythos has already identified thousands of critical bugs, many decades old, and will be used for defensive security work while the firm continues discussions with U.S. officials about its broader applications. Read more →