OpenAI is racing to catch up to its greatest rival. OpenAI does not like to be left out. The week after Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview --an AI model that has put governments around the world on edge because of its potential ability to hack into banks, energy grids, and military systems--OpenAI shared a program that is uncannily similar. And just like Anthropic did with its model, OpenAI has, for cybersecurity purposes, restricted access to this new bot, called GPT-5.4-Cyber, to a small group of trusted users. This sequence has become something of a pattern: First Anthropic will make an announcement, and then OpenAI will follow suit.

Cory Doctorow's theory of "enshittification" explains how tech platforms rot from within. As AI grows more profitable--and powerful--it risks the same fate. Cory Doctorow speaks onstage during Unfinished Live at The Shed in New York City. As one does these days, I ran my itinerary past GPT-5 for sightseeing suggestions and restaurant recommendations. The bot reported that the top choice for dinner near our hotel in Rome was a short walk down Via Margutta.

AMD has typically pushed the envelope in performance, but at CES 2025, the company is also expanding in another direction, with cheaper, lower-performance Ryzen AI 300 and even a Ryzen 200 family that the company is encouraging both consumers and commercial customers to buy. In June, AMD launched the Ryzen AI 300 family, which combined 50 TOPS of AI power with a ton of conventional performance in our Ryzen AI 300 review, including in gaming performance as well. In October, it extended the Ryzen AI 300 to business customers, too. However, AMD built out its high-end Ryzen AI 300 series first, with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (12 cores/24 threads) and the Ryzen AI 9 365 (10 cores/20 threads). Today, it does the opposite, with the launch of four new Ryzen AI 300 series chips -- two each for consumers and business customers -- as well as seven new Ryzen 200 chips to provide slower, less expensive alternatives.

BT has said it is increasingly using artificial intelligence to help it detect and neutralise threats from hackers targeting business customers amid repeated attacks on companies. The 10.5bn group is aiming to build up its business protecting customers from online criminals and has patented technology that uses AI to analyse attack data to allow companies to protect their tech infrastructure. British businesses are routinely facing hacking attempts, and some recent high-profile victims have included including the outsourcer Capita, Royal Mail and British Airways. BT has 725 AI-related patents and patent applications in Europe, the US and China. Bas Burger, the chief executive of BT Business, the division of BT dealing with business customers, said: "We have all this data around when criminals try to attack, such as time of day, what type of attack, and we have suppliers to help us with the information … all data we enrich and then we have a piece of AI running across it."

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is making a commercial version of its artificial intelligence model freely available, in a move that gives startups and other businesses a low-cost opportunity compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard. A new version of a Meta large language model (LLM), called Llama 2, will be distributed by Microsoft through its Azure cloud service and will run on the Windows operating system, Meta said in a blogpost, referring to Microsoft as "our preferred partner" for the release. LLMs underpin generative AI products like the ChatGPT chatbot, although ChatGPT's owner has not open-sourced – or made widely available to others – its LLM, called GPT-4. The model, which Meta previously provided only to select academics for research purposes, also will be made available via direct download and through Amazon Web Services, Hugging Face and other providers. "Open source drives innovation because it enables many more developers to build with new technology," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post.

Microsoft Corp is revamping its Bing search engine and Edge web browser with artificial intelligence, the company said on Tuesday, in one of its biggest efforts yet to lead a new wave of technology and reshape how people gather information. Microsoft is staking its future on AI through billions of dollars of investment as it directly challenges Alphabet Inc's Google. That could mean new competition for business customers using cloud and collaboration products as well as a vigorous return to consumer markets where Google now leads. Working with the startup OpenAI, Microsoft is aiming to leapfrog its rival and potentially claim vast returns from tools that speed up all manner of content creation, automating tasks, if not jobs themselves. "This technology is going to reshape pretty much every software category," Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella told reporters in a briefing at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, in Washington state.

Teslar Software announced the launch of its indirect lending solution, which empowers community financial institutions to offer indirect lending services to local business and consumers in a way that's quick, efficient and digitally optimized. "Traditionally, many community financial institutions have shied away from offering indirect lending, which is a missed opportunity" Teslar Software is helping community institutions fill the gap that currently exists for medium sized purchases with its indirect lending solution. Teslar's indirect lending product allows community institutions to partner with local businesses to offer financing options to their customers for purchases like power sports, outdoor equipment, lawn and garden, furniture and more. Institutions can extend their presence further into the community and drive more loans back to the institution. Plus, the end customer gains an easy, convenient way to access financing through a trusted, local financial institution.

Daniel Faggella is Head of Research at Emerj. Called upon by the United Nations, World Bank, INTERPOL, and leading enterprises, Daniel is a globally sought-after expert on the competitive strategy implications of AI for business and government leaders. Intel was founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, who had previously been among the founders of Fairchild Semiconductors. Today, Intel employs over 121,000 people worldwide. In its 2021 annual report, the company reported revenues of $79 billion.

On the one-year anniversary of Copy.ai's launch on Twitter, the company, a GPT-3 AI-powered platform that generates copywriting tools for business customers, secured another round of funding. This time, the company brought in an $11 million Series A round, led by Wing Venture Capital, with participation from existing investors Craft Ventures and Sequoia, and new investors including Tiger Global and Elad Gil. This follows a $2.9 million seed round announced in March and brings the company's total funding to $13.9 million. Copy.ai's software costs $35 a month and can, for example, write a blog post outline based on a few sentences and create link descriptions for Facebook ads and even generate a company motto. A year since CEO Paul Yacoubian and Chris Lu co-founded the company, it is seeing $2.4 million in annual recurring revenue.

TransUnion, a global information and insights company, processes more than 1,000 transactions per second, and Chief Information and Technology Officer Abhi Dhar says that each and every one is important. TransUnion's business customers rely on it for instant access to information that allows them to make immediate financing decisions. And consumers need and deserve fast answers, Dhar says. That's why he's using machine learning to bolster TransUnion's IT uptime. Machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence, allows the company's IT team to predict problems in advance, so they can proactively resolve issues before outages occur.