OpenAI Hits 1 Billion Active Users, 2 Million Businesses on Its AI Platform

OpenAI says its models now reach more than 1 billion active users and 2 million businesses as GPT-5.6 price cuts intensify ...

OpenAI reaches one billion active users as it cuts GPT-5.6 prices by up to 80%

On July 30, OpenAI cut the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80%. It now costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million ...
pv magazine International

Low-cost open-access tool for rooftop PV assessment in informal settlements

Researchers in Brazil developed a low-cost method combining UAV photogrammetry, GIS analysis, and an open-source Python tool ...
Decrypt

MoonPay's PayBox Puts a Crypto Wallet Inside Claude and ChatGPT—And Lets It Pay for Things

MoonPay launched PayBox, a payment vault that lives inside Claude and ChatGPT and lets AI agents execute transactions. Wallet ...
Forbes

American Open-Source Labs Think They Can Beat China’s Best AI Startups

Poolside CEO Jason Warner speaks onstage during the HumanX AI Conference in 2025. Back in October 2024, Poolside was an early AI star. Cofounded by former Github CTO Jason Warner, the startup had ...
Taste of Country

Fans Connected Riley Green’s Song to Megan Moroney — Here’s What He Says

Riley Green is trying to clear the air after fans became convinced one of his unreleased songs was aimed directly at Megan Moroney. The country singer addressed growing speculation surrounding his ...
VentureBeat

China’s Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open-source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems

Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup backed by Alibaba, on Thursday released Kimi K3 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter model that the company says is now the largest open-source AI ...
AOL

The first AI-generated POS built for Credit Unions costs nothing to run and nothing to own

Fuse, the AI-native loan origination and account opening platform backed by $25M from the investors behind Chime and OpenAI, and that is trusted by more than 100 Financial Institutions, today ...
Golf Channel

The Open 2026: Ranking all 156 players in field at Royal Birkdale

That’s Royal Birkdale heading into this 154th Open Championship, which heads to the Southport links, located about an hour north of Liverpool, for the first time since Jordan Spieth’s swashbuckling ...
CoinTelegraph

Cambridge study puts Ethereum near lower end of PoS energy intensity

Cambridge estimated that Ethereum consumes 7.87 GWh annually and has the second-lowest market-value-adjusted energy intensity among the proof-of-stake networks studied. A new Cambridge University ...
The Next Web

Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle

Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run ...
TechCrunch

SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab

First came Anthropic, then Google. Now, open source AI startup Reflection is tapping SpaceX for its abundant source of AI chips. Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 ...