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OpenAI has filed for an IPO, putting the company behind ChatGPT on a path to public markets just one week after rival Anthropic did the same. The back-to-back filings signal an intensifying race for capital in the AI sector, with both companies betting that public investors are ready to fund the next phase of the arms race.
Meanwhile, the man steering OpenAI is navigating rougher waters on another front. Sam Altman's eye-scanning identity company, Tools for Humanity, is reportedly struggling to generate meaningful revenue and is now downsizing its staff. It's a reminder that even the most prominent figures in tech are running multiple bets simultaneously, and not all of them pay off on the same timeline.
And over at Apple, WWDC two thousand twenty six brought a keynote that felt less like a vision statement and more like a progress report. Siri is getting a significant AI overhaul, the next macOS is called Golden Gate, and Safari is leaning on AI to let users essentially build their own extensions by describing what they want. After a two hundred fifty million dollar false advertising settlement over previous AI demos, Apple appeared notably careful to show its features working in the real world this time around.
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