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OpenAI reports it evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform to support ChatGPT. According to the company, the architecture scales to serve 1 billion users and handles 22 million requests per second.
Tencent-backed Chinese AI chipmaker Shanghai Enflame Technology saw its shares nearly triple on its trading debut following an initial public offering that raised approximately 6.12 billion yuan ($911 million). The market response reflects strong demand for domestic semiconductor alternatives to Nvidia hardware.
OpenAI has released its Agents API in public beta, offering developer infrastructure to build autonomous cloud agents capable of executing code, running for hours, and handing off tasks to sub-agents. The service requires no additional platform fees beyond standard token usage, with supplemental sandbox execution environments supported by Cloudflare, Vercel, and Oracle.
OpenAI has released ChatGPT for Financial Services, a specialized product tailored to automate labor-intensive investment banking workflows. Claims are as reported; this summary makes no determination about accuracy or significance.
OpenAI is pausing new subscriptions to its $200-per-month plan for its flagship model Astra due to intense demand and computing constraints. Thibault Sottiaux, head of OpenAI's Codex coding agent, cited system strain and the need to preserve capacity as the rationale for the suspension.
Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. has released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, an open-weight model that is the smallest variant in a new architecture family. The company claims third-party evaluations demonstrate that V4.1-Flash outperforms its larger DeepSeek-V4-Pro model in performance, speed, total runtime, and cost.
The Financial Times reports that Oracle recorded increased data centre revenue linked to its artificial intelligence initiatives. To rival larger cloud competitors, the enterprise database company allocated $28.5 billion in capital expenditures during the last quarter.
California has enacted two legislative bills establishing a framework for third-party artificial intelligence auditing. The new laws create formal mechanisms for external reviews of AI systems, affecting both AI vendors and enterprise adopters.
Vantage Data Centers, backed by DigitalBridge, is seeking $2 billion in loans from investment managers Pimco and PGIM to finance AI infrastructure expansion as traditional Wall Street banks reduce or limit their lending exposure to the sector.
