A million words costs $50 from Anthropic and 87 cents from DeepSeek. Corporate America noticed.
A million words costs $50 from Anthropic and 87 cents from DeepSeek. Corporate America noticed.

Roughly 750,000 words of AI output costs $50 if you buy it from Anthropic’s Fable. The same volume from DeepSeek’s V4-Pro costs about 87 cents, Fortune reported. Z.AI’s GLM-5.2 charges $4.40. Moonshot’s Kimi K3, pricey by Chinese standards, charges $15…

Nvidia in talks to backstop $250bn of OpenAI’s data-centre financing
Nvidia in talks to backstop $250bn of OpenAI’s data-centre financing

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to guarantee about $250bn of financing for OpenAI, a backstop that would let the ChatGPT maker fund a vast new data centre without the investment-grade credit rating such borrowing normally demands. The arrangement was des…

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI’s Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

What OpenAI will show the White House this week
What OpenAI will show the White House this week

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to brief the Trump administration on the company’s most powerful AI model yet, pushing for speedy approval of a system that has already demonstrated it can solve problems humans could not and breach a…

Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack

“The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!”

OpenAI’s rogue AI hack was just the beginning, Hugging Face warns

OpenAI calls its autonomous Hugging Face breach unprecedented, while security and AI experts say the episode raises an equally uncomfortable question about the company’s own safeguards.

OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together
OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together

OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex on Saturday, marking the fourth service disruption in four days for the company. Users encountered 503 errors with the internal label “biscuit_baker_service_me_circu…

I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI’s fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

The AI giants just broke with OpenAI and Anthropic on open weights
The AI giants just broke with OpenAI and Anthropic on open weights

The AI industry just picked a side, in public. On Friday, 25 companies and groups published an open letter, “Open Weights and American AI Leadership”, urging Washington not to crack down on open-weight AI, Business Insider reported. The names are heavy…

OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’
OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’

OpenAI wants to be in the room for your next diagnosis. On Thursday it began rolling out ChatGPT Health to every logged-in US adult. The chatbot can now connect to your Apple Health data and medical records, the company said. It can then draw on them i…