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OpenAi Becomes the World’s Most Valuable Private Company What happened: OpenAI closed a secondary share sale that values the company at $500 billion, topping SpaceX and ByteDance. Employees were allowed to sell $6.6 billion of stock (out of $10.3B authorized), and many held back - interpreted internally

Apple Chases Meta In AI Glasses Race Apple is quietly shelving plans for a cheaper Vision Pro headset and shifting teams toward something it hopes will be more mainstream: AI-powered smart glasses. According to Bloomberg, Apple now has multiple glasses prototypes in the works, targeting a 2027 release. There are

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Turns AI Video Into Social Platform OpenAI launched the boffo Sora 2, a big step up in video generation that now pairs more believable physics with synchronized audio and dialogue. CEO Sam Altman calls it the "Imagination Engine," and you can kinda see why

OpenAI Turns ChatGPT Into Storefront OpenAI rolled out Instant Checkout, a way to buy products directly inside ChatGPT without opening a browser tab. A “Buy” button appears beside product suggestions; payment and order confirmation happen in-chat. It’s powered by Stripe and starts with Etsy sellers, with support for over

Metabot: Meta’s Humanoid Robotics Gamble Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth confirmed in an interview that Metabot is the company’s most ambitious new project since AR/VR - aiming to create the software backbone for humanoid robots rather than just build flashy machines. Is this an attempt to rotate quickly

ChatGPT Gets Proactive With New Pulse Briefs As a young product makers 20 years ago there are two things I told a reporter I wanted in "bots": Do things on consumers' behalf and deliver results - e.g. scan job boards and dating sites and apply / reach

Medicare Pilots AI Denials Starting January 2026, Medicare will pilot WISeR (Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction), an AI-driven prior authorization system that screens requests for certain procedures and can deny care deemed “low-value.” The program will run until 2031 in Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas, and Washington. Traditionally, Medicare

Altman Lays Out OpenAI’s Infrastructure Push OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a blog post revealing plans to scale infrastructure capable of producing one gigawatt of AI capacity every week. He argues compute expansion isn’t just about revenue, but about unlocking breakthroughs in medicine, education, and more simultaneously -

Nvidia Fuels OpenAI’s Compute Chase Nvidia and OpenAI announced what’s being called the biggest AI infrastructure project in history. Nvidia will invest up to $100B, tied to the staged deployment of 10 GW worth of GPU systems into OpenAI’s data centers. The first 1 GW is expected

(Plus: Guest Essay - What Could Possibly Go Right?) 💼 Business & Strategy OpenAI’s Apple-Style Hardware Heist OpenAI is swiping dozens of Apple veterans (led by ex-Apple exec Tang Tan) and lining up iPhone manufacturers Luxshare and Goertek to build an AI-native device portfolio. Concepts under exploration include a display-less