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OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce by 2026 as it ramps up enterprise push

The AI lab wants to grow from 4,500 to 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, the Financial Times reports, citing two people familiar with the plans. Most new hires will go into product development, ...
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OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas browser into a single desktop superapp

Update from March 20, 2026: The Wall Street Journal has new details on OpenAI's plan to roll its various products into a single desktop app. The company wants to combine ChatGPT, the Codex coding ...
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Microsoft and rival AI researchers unite to back Anthropic in its escalating legal battle against the Pentagon

A broad coalition is backing Anthropic in its legal fight with the US Department of Defense. Microsoft, dozens of OpenAI and Google employees, former military leaders, and civil rights organizations ...
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Meta acquires Moltbook, the Reddit-style platform built for AI agents

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a platform best described as a Reddit for AI agents. Founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr are joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs (MSL), led by former Scale AI CEO ...
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Claude Code gets parallel AI agents that review code for bugs and security gaps

Anthropic has released a code review feature for Claude Code that automatically checks changes for errors before they're merged. Multiple AI agents work in parallel to catch bugs, security ...
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Hollywood copyright complaints force Bytedance to shelve global launch of AI video generator Seedance 2.0

Bytedance has reportedly shelved the global launch of its AI video model Seedance 2.0 after a wave of copyright complaints from major Hollywood studios, a sign of just how convincing AI-generated ...
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Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for training on nearly 100,000 articles without permission

Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in federal court in Manhattan. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI used nearly 100,000 online articles, ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Google AI Studio now lets you vibe code real-time multiplayer games Google has launched a new vibe coding feature in Google AI Studio that lets non-programmers and programmers ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: As demand for realistic AI training grows, Deeptune raises $43 million to build simulated workplaces Andreessen Horowitz invests $43 million in Deeptune, a startup that trains ...
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Code competition Codeforces bans AI code as as it reaches "new heights that cannot be overlooked"

Faced with the increasing capabilities of AI in programming, the human-centered Codeforces coding competition has decided to ban AI entries. However, enforcing this ban may prove challenging.
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OpenAI has reportedly misjudged its cash burn by $80 billion

The main reason for these numbers is the soaring cost of computing power needed to train and run OpenAI's models, along with a major push to build out its own server infrastructure. The company plans ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

Anthropic's AI model Claude Opus 4.6 independently recognized that it was being tested in a web research benchmark, identified the specific benchmark, and cracked its encrypted answer key. After an ...