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ChatGPT at 1.2 billion weekly users, Codex at 35 million: agents are not a concept, they are already at the office desk
A set of numbers ended the "agents are still early" line At DevDay, OpenAI dropped a set of figures: ChatGPT passed 1.2 billion weekly active users, Codex and ChatGPT Work together passed 35 million w
September's clustered flagship launches are the ledger of the hundred-thousand-GPU era
In Q3 2026, vendors nearly piled their flagship launches into September According to China National Radio on September 16, in this round of intense competition the leaders squeezed their release dates
Chinese Models Out-Called US Models for 19 Straight Weeks. Read This Ranking Carefully.
Read the numbers first, then read how they were produced Based on OpenRouter data, in the week of August 31 to September 6, total global token usage across large models reached 115 quadrillion, up 1.
Enterprise AI Pays Back in 14 Months, and 80% of the Work Is Cleaning Data
Everyone says AI saves money. The real data says: wait 14 months first. McKinsey's survey landed a number: about 14 months after deployment, companies average 5.8 times their investment back. Early a
OpenAI Tops 40B Annual Revenue, Enterprise Passes Consumer (2026): The Truth About AI Making Money
One line Ahead of its IPO, OpenAI's annualized revenue is set to top 40 billion dollars, nearly double late 2025. The more counterintuitive part: its enterprise business has already passed the consum
SpaceX Buys Cursor for 60 Billion (2026): Coding Agents Become the Next Core Battleground
One line On August 14, SpaceX formally closed its 60-billion-dollar all-stock acquisition of Cursor. It is one of the largest AI startup acquisitions in tech history, and the Cursor team moves into S
ChatGPT Atlas Is Dead (2026): Why AI-Native Browsers Couldn't Outlive Ten Months
The verdict first: OpenAI buried its own "Chrome killer" On August 9, ChatGPT Atlas was shut down. The AI-native browser that launched to fanfare on October 21, 2025 - the one Sam Altman called a "on
DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Grok 4.6 (2026): Two Flagships Shipped the Same Night - How to Choose
Shipped the same night, but two different games On the night of August 12, Hangzhou and Los Angeles dropped major models almost simultaneously. DeepSeek quietly flipped V4 Pro from preview to general
25 Giants Back Open Weights — But the Two Who Should Sign Stayed Inside
On July 24-25, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, IBM, Dell, Hugging Face, Mistral, Perplexity, and 25 organizations in total published an open letter: "Open Weights and US Leadership in AI." The ask is one
When Open Source Breaks Closed Pricing: Kimi K3 Raises 4x, US Tech Stocks Plunge
A Chinese model prices like an American one for the first time Kimi K3's API pricing: per million tokens, $0.30 cache-hit input, $3 cache-miss input, $15 output. The last two — $3 input, $15 output
WAIC Next Week: 1,100 Companies, 300 Global Debuts, AI Agent Phone Premiere
Record Scale July 17-20. The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance opens in Shanghai. The numbers: 1,100+ companies exhibiting — a record 3
Cloudflare Rewrites AI Crawler Rules: Ad Pages Blocked by Default Sept 15, Pay Per Use Arrives
Cloudflare draws the line: from Sept 15, AI can't scrape your ad pages for free On July 1, Cloudflare dropped a bomb — a new deadline for the entire AI industry. Starting September 15, 2026, the defa