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.

Google Cloud TPUs AI chips won over OpenAI to power AI models and ChapGPT after signing new deal, says a Microsoft Azure partner.

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

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.

CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider that went public in March, has already been a major supplier of OpenAI's infrastructure. It has signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion with OpenAI to provide dedicated computing capacity for OpenAI's model training and inference. OpenAI also took a $350 million equity stake in CoreWeave in March.

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

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is in discussions with Saudi Arabia’s PIF, India’s Reliance Industries, and UAE-based MGX to raise up to $40 billion. The funding will support the company’s next-generation AI models and large-scale infrastructure project,

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.

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.