OpenAI is winning over Anthropic customers with steep discounts, and companies such as Rippling, Replit and DataCamp say switching cut their AI costs by up to 90%. Anthropic's growth has slowed, OpenAI is sacrificing margin for market share, and Chinese rivals like DeepSeek add further price pressure.
According to The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI examined the phones of safety researchers it later fired, looking for Signal conversations. Tomek Korbak, one of the three, said he was told he had breached trust by talking to a third party through unsanctioned channels.
The Verge's weekly Stepback newsletter traces how changes to Google search driven by AI have disrupted digital publishers, an industry that long depended on search traffic.
Western Australia's government says it is very disappointed and wants a fast refund from Deloitte, which it paid $166,000 for a study on merging three universities. The report contained references hallucinated by AI and cost discrepancies of hundreds of millions of dollars.
RoseBerry Media is using AI to recut Margot Robbie's storylines from the Australian soap Neighbours into vertical micro-episodes for phones. Other cast members say they were not consulted, fuelling debate over how television archives are mined for new content.
The final instalment of Le Monde's Route 66 series looks at Hollywood, weakened by the decline of costly studio productions, the rise of streaming and now the arrival of AI, which the industry uses widely but discusses reluctantly.