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Policy2026-09-11 · source-backed
The open letter asked organizers to suspend the October 30 event, where Anthropic and OpenAI were putting up $2 million in AI credits for solving open problems by prompting models. It argues that labs take the prestige and leave the unpaid verification work to mathematicians. OpenAI's Dan Roberts announced the withdrawal the same day. The r/singularity thread drew 1,059 comments, and many sided with the labs.
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Per-token prices went down at both labs. Subscriptions are draining faster at both labs. Those aren't in tension once you look at token counts. On the OpenAI side, r/OpenAI collected reports from Linux.do and NodeSeek alleging Astra consumes more Plus quota than its published...
Epoch puts OpenAI's run rate above $40B, up from $13B a year ago, and Anthropic's at $65B as of end of July, against Exponential View's ~$175B annualized estimate for the whole deduplicated generative AI industry as of June. The analytically useful part is the caveat: when tok...
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A $150M investment to help systems integrators and consultancies accelerate enterprise AI deployment (OpenAI). It builds the channel and go-to-market layer OpenAI needs to compete against Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic for enterprise agents, where deployment support, not mod...
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