Oracle looks like a big winner from the new Stargate Project. The tech giant began working more closely with OpenAI last summer. Oracle is outgrowing leaders like Amazon in cloud-infrastructure revenue.

OpenAI announced a preview of Operator, an artificial intelligence agent, that will collaborate with a wide range of commerce-driven companies.

OpenAI added to its ChatGPT a feature to automate tasks such as planning vacations, filling out forms, making restaurant reservations and ordering groceries. TakeAway Points: Operator, dubbed “an agent that can go to the web to accomplish tasks for you,

WIth one foot out the White House door, the Biden administration issued 2 documents Musk is now using in his battle to break up OpenAI and Microsoft.

This development follows the introduction of the o3 series, designed to enhance AI's ability to tackle complex problems through improved reasoning capabilities. The o3 mini model represents a significant leap from its predecessor, o1, by incorporating advanced reasoning skills that allow for step-by-step logical analysis.

Meta, Apple, Google and other tech companies have been named in a letter penned by Democratic lawmakers, accusing them of cozying up to President-elect Trump.

In this edition of TC's AI newsletter, This Week in AI, we talk about OpenAI's new Stargate joint venture and what it means for AI rivals.

The commission noted that the investment may extend Microsoft's dominance in cloud computing into the emerging AI market.

Microsoft gains $4.5 billion of annual revenue for every $1 increase in monthly fees from Microsoft 365/Office users. Read why MSFT stock is a Buy.

Oracle’s announcement comes after the company’s chairman, Larry Ellison, joined OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son to announce their joint Stargate Project, which seeks to spend as much as $500 billion constructing AI data centers across the US.

Data center technology spending skyrocketed 34 percent in 2024, according to Synergy Research Group. It is soaring past a half a trillion dollars in the first month of 2025 as banks and technology vendors vie to build out massive AI compute.