Microsoft AI has made its in-house models for transcription, speech recognition, and image generation available on Foundry.

Over 10 months after shelling out an eye-popping $6.4 billion for Jony Ive's nascent devices startup, OpenAI announced it's buying media company TBPN.

OpenAI has acquired what OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo called one of the most influential tech news sources in the industry. That source is a media brand.

Microsoft announced MAI-Transcribe-1, a new speech-to-text model, and made its in-house MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2 models broadly available to developers for commercial use for the first time, expanding its proprietary AI capabilities beyond its OpenAI partnership.

Microsoft launches three in-house MAI models for transcription, voice and image generation through Foundry, hedging its reliance on OpenAI.

TBPN’s livestream is primarily available on X and YouTube, but many users watch it on X. OpenAI’s purchase comes as a lawsuit between Altman and Elon Musk, who was a co-founder of OpenAI before splitting from the project and now owns X, is headed to trial later this month.

OpenAI hasn’t been shy about spending money lobbying for favorable laws and regulations. But when it comes to its involvement with child safety advocacy groups, the company has apparently decided it’s best to stay in the shadows—even if it means hiding from the people actually pushing for policy changes.

Microsoft unveiled MAI AI models for enterprise tools, aiming to reduce reliance on OpenAI and compete with Google in the expanding AI market.

A week after OpenAI said it would shutter its artificial intelligence video generator, Sora, rival tools like Kling AI and RunwayML are already gaining ground.

OpenAI's promising text-to-video app is dead.

Brad Lightcap said that the software sell-off may have been unwarranted because software companies are working hard to incorporate AI.