A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the White House last week.

What I can say is that it's a little rich for OpenAI to suddenly be so very publicly concerned about the sanctity of proprietary data. Collectively, the contributions from copyrighted sources are significant enough that OpenAI has said it would be "impossible" to build its large-language models without them.

Microsoft and OpenAI are probing if data output from the ChatGPT maker's technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.

The San Francisco-based company was last valued at $157 billion in October, when it secured $6.6 billion of investment. Microsoft led a previous round of financing totalling $10 billion, integrating OpenAI’s technology into its suite of Office products and significantly boosting the AI startup’s profile.

Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek improperly accessed data output from

OpenAI — the company behind ChatGPT and a big part of Stargate — is partnering with the U.S. National Laboratories. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly spoke with OpenAI's Chris LeHane, here are the highlights.

ChatGPT creator OpenAI on Wednesday said that Chinese companies are actively attempting to replicate its advanced AI models, prompting increased security measures and closer cooperation with US authorities.

While returns on their massive AI investments have yet to show up in most companies’ bottom lines, the race to develop AI has already rewritten the traditional rules of finance. The tech giants that control cloud computing resources have leveraged surging demand to take stakes in frontier model labs.

"Our whole air traffic control system has been blinking red, screaming at us that we've got it overloaded," one expert told BI.

January saw Meta, Amazon, Microsoft announce layoffs. With China growing influence in the AI space, and Donald Trump at the helm in the US, what lies ahead for the tech industry in 2025?

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov – a special Enterprise version of ChatGPT for exclusive use by the US government.