OpenAI Hits 700M Weekly Users, Raises $8.3B to Expand ChatGPT - As ChatGPT use explodes to 700 million weekly users and 5 million paying business users, OpenAI has secured $8.3 billion in new capital to scale its enterprise and consumer AI offerings. The company’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) is now at $13 billion, up from $10 billion in June, with expectations to exceed $20 billion by the end of the year.

Apple Builds ‘Answers’ Team to Develop ChatGPT-Style AI Experience - Apple has formed a new internal team—called Answers, Knowledge, and Information (AKI)—tasked with building a stripped-down ChatGPT-style search experience that could eventually replace or augment Siri’s current reliance on Google Search by allowing the voice assistant to deliver direct answers instead of simply pointing users to external links.

Google Launches Deep Think in Gemini App for AI Ultra Users - Google releases Deep Think, a powerful new reasoning model, in the Gemini app for AI Ultra subscribers. The version now available is a faster, more accessible iteration of the model that reached gold-medal-level performance at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). While the competition model required hours of reasoning, this public release maintains Bronze-level IMO performance with significantly reduced response time.

Delta Says It Won’t Use AI to Set Personalized Airfare Prices - After facing pressure from lawmakers, Delta Air Lines says it will not use AI to set individualized ticket prices based on personal data. The lawmakers had previously warned that AI-powered pricing systems could exploit consumers by raising fares to their personal "pain point." Their comments followed a growing public debate over how AI could be used to optimize profits at the expense of transparency and fairness in airfare.

Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content - xAI has officially rolled out Grok Imagine, xAI’s image and video generator, to all SuperGrok and Premium+ X subscribers on its iOS app. And true to form for Musk, who positions Grok as an unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI, the generator allows users to make NSFW content.

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