Erin Woo

OpenAI’s revenue growth has accelerated this month compared to the second quarter of this year, Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told employees on Wednesday, as the company tries to close the distance with rival Anthropic. OpenAI in July has added more annual recurring revenue—a measure of monthly sales times 12—than the increase in that figure over the previous three months combined,

Google announced major changes to its artificial intelligence operations, with Demis Hassabis stepping aside as Google DeepMind’s chief executive to become its chairman and longtime AI scientist and executive Jeff Dean leaving the company to co-found a startup. CEO Sundar Pichai said Hassabis, who shared a Nobel Prize in 2024 for work on using AI for protein folding, will also become chief

The coming initial public offerings of AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI could spell a windfall for San Francisco real estate agents, private jet companies—and wild animals. As AI employees with fast-appreciating stock look to start cashing out, philanthropies are talking to potential donors and ...

Google is moving a team focused on the risks and societal impact of artificial intelligence out of Google DeepMind, the research lab developing its frontier AI models, according to an internal email viewed by the Journal.

Read this exciting story from The Wall Street Journal August 27, 2026 issue. Google is moving a team focused on the risks and societal impact of artificial intelligence out of Google DeepMind, the research lab developing its frontier AI models, according to an internal email viewed by the Journal.

Google's artificial-intelligence research unit is set to release a new model with significantly upgraded coding capabilities, according to

Andrew Tulloch departs Meta less than a year after he was offered a billion-dollar pay package.

Andrew Tulloch, the star AI researcher who was offered a pay package worth more than $1 billion to join Meta Platforms last year, is leaving the company, according to people familiar with the situation.

OpenAI and Anthropic, in heated competition—with each other and China—are racing toward IPOs, even as they admit they could lose control of their powerful bots.

Before the doom descended last week, OpenAI researchers were euphoric.