Starbucks unveiled a generative AI assistant created with Microsoft Azure's OpenAI platform at its Leadership Experience in Las Vegas. The technology will roll out to stores in the U.S. and Canada in fiscal 2026.

Relationships between AI giants begin to shuffle as OpenAI is no longer locked into a deal with Microsoft Azure for cloud services.

The funds will support Sam Altman-led firm’s next phase of model development and its large-scale data center project, Stargate.

French AI firm Mistral will release its first reasoning model Tuesday, taking on the likes of OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek.

With SoftBank leading the financing, OpenAI is looking to raise more funds to fuel its model development and ambitious infrastructure plan, Stargate.

OpenAI has been teasing news of a new open-weight model for a while now, originally planning for an early summer release. This would offer reasoning capabilities similar to OpenAI’s o-series models, but open to the public.

OpenAI has plans to add Alphabet’s Google cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity. This is a surprising development considering the two companies are prominent competitors in the world of artificial intelligence.

OpenAI said on Monday that its annualized revenue run rate surged to $10 billion as of June, positioning the company to hit its full-year target amid booming AI adoption.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes developers and engineers are nearing the arrival of the singularity, which is the point when artificial intelligence models surpass human intelligence and ingenuity.

The partnership gives the ChatGPT-maker access to Google's cloud services for training new AI models - and more distance from Microsoft.

Google and OpenAI compete with each other in the artificial intelligence domain, with both companies offering some of the best on Android phones. However, it now looks like both companies are putting aside the competition and have struck a deal to collaborate in the field of AI.