Kylie Robison

AI companies are building AI agents as they rush to productize their expensive large language models.

Hearst, which owns a substantial portion of the media landscape, has just signed a deal with OpenAI to integrate Hearst content into its products (The Verge’s parent company Vox Media also partners with OpenAI). Hearst owns 24 daily newspapers and 52 weekly newspapers, 175 websites and more than 200 magazine editions worldwide, making this one of OpenAI’s biggest media partnerships.

Elon Musk threw an xAI recruiting party in OpenAI’s original San Francisco headquarters.

A historically huge funding round.

Everything from AR glasses to AI avatars.

OpenAI may soon become a for-profit company with fewer checks and balances than before — the exact structure it was built to avoid.

Actor Kristen Bell voiced her opposition to Meta’s new AI features using her content to train its LLMs — now, she’s joining a list of actors lending their voices to Meta’s chatbot.

Everything from AR glasses to AI avatars.

One of the top execs at OpenAI is out.

An important step to catch up to ChatGPT and Gemini.