- Anthropic faces risks as $5B run rate leans on Cursor and GitHub Copilot as OpenAI’s cheaper GPT‑5 undercuts Claude, spotlighting customer concentration risks and enterprise AI cost pressure.
- ChatGPT reaches 700 million weekly users as OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 with integrated reasoning capabilities in August 2025.
- OpenAI abruptly removed a ChatGPT feature that made conversations searchable on Google, sparking privacy concerns and industry-wide scrutiny of AI data handling.
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Study Mode, transforming AI from an answer engine into a Socratic tutor that guides students through problems step-by-step rather than providing direct solutions.
- Sparrow raises $35M Series B to scale AI-powered employee leave management platform that has grown 14x since 2021, serving 1,000+ companies and saving $200M in payroll costs.
- Writer launches Action Agent, an autonomous AI that executes complex enterprise tasks across 600+ tools, outperforming OpenAI on key benchmarks in the $114B enterprise AI market.


