Good morning. In honor of Perplexity’s unsolicited $34.5 billion bid to acquire Google’s Chrome web browser amid U.S. antitrust scrutiny—a figure well beyond the San Francisco AI startup’s $18 billion valuation!—five things I’d like to place an unsolicited bid on with someone else’s money: But please, Marc—keep the disco ball. Today’s tech news below. —Andrew…
“You liar.” xAI boss Elon Musk flung these two words at OpenAI chief Sam Altman in a post on X. The salvo was the latest in an ongoing war of words between two of the most influential figures in technology and artificial intelligence (AI). “You got 3M views on your bullshit post, you liar, far…
Elon Musk’s long-running feud with OpenAI and its chief, Sam Altman, appears to be continuing as he threatens a lawsuit over the App Store ranking of Grok AI assistant that competes with ChatGPT (JIM WATSON) Elon Musk has taken his feud against OpenAI to the App Store, accusing Apple of favoring ChatGPT in the digital…
Elon Musk says Apple has made it “impossible” for AI apps that aren’t ChatGPT to hit No. 1 on the App Store. The problem with that argument is that DeepSeek did exactly that earlier this year — and Musk’s Grok app may have as well. XAI’s Grok app currently sits at #5 on the Apple…
Apple’s stock is down nearly 20% so far in 2025, losing more than $750 billion in market value and falling from its position as the world’s most valuable company, particularly as a result of investor disappointment around Apple’s artificial intelligence efforts, with the company’s “Apple Intelligence” suite failing to impress. This week, Apple has a…
Ed Elson, a 26-year-old research analyst and co-host of the Prof G Markets podcast, has heard plenty of stories about generations before him getting rich on stocks. His own co-host, New York University business school professor and entrepreneur Scott Galloway, who’s 60, invested $800,000 in both Apple and Amazon back in 2009. Today, those investments…
Elon Musk is threatening to sue Apple over the way it ranks AI firms in its App Store. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation,” the billionaire wrote on his X social media…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he doesn’t feel comfortable with how people are consulting ChatGPT on major life decisions. “A lot of people effectively use ChatGPT as a sort of therapist or life coach, even if they wouldn’t describe it that way,” Altman wrote on X on Sunday. “I can imagine a future where a…
OpenAI, the developer behind ChatGPT, released two bombshell AI developments last week. Last Thursday, it released GPT-5, the long-awaited update to its powerful GPT model. But OpenAI’s earlier decision to release open-source versions of its powerful model—the first time it’s done so since 2020, may be more consequential. OpenAI’s move follows a flood of Chinese…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has bluntly responded to recent attacks from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, saying he doesn’t spend much time thinking about the xAI founder. Speaking in an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, Altman dismissed Musk’s repeated criticisms of OpenAI and its newly launched GPT-5 model.ChatGPT creator OpenAI recently unveiled its latest AI model…