OpenAI Closes $122B Funding Round — 900M Weekly ChatGPT Users
Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft join a historic $122B round as OpenAI eyes an IPO and pivots to a 'unified superapp.' ChatGPT has 6× the monthly visits of the next-largest AI app.
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Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft join a historic $122B round as OpenAI eyes an IPO and pivots to a 'unified superapp.' ChatGPT has 6× the monthly visits of the next-largest AI app.
ChatGPT reproduced a German children's book series nearly verbatim — text, cover art, and blurb. Filed in Munich, this is one of the cleanest verbatim reproduction cases in AI copyright law yet.
Layoffs in the 'thousands' as Oracle simultaneously plans a $45–50B AI data center buildout. Capital flows toward compute. Headcount is the cost being cut to fund it.
NASA's first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972 is underway. Artemis II won't land, but it validates the hardware and sets the stage for boots on the surface with Artemis III.
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