So just how much money is OpenAI dumping on this firehose of imbecilic video? More than $5 billion annualized, or around $15 million per day, according to Forbes estimates and conversations with experts. When Bill Peebles, OpenAI’s head of Sora, observed on October 30 that “The economics are currently completely unsustainable,” he was right on the money.
A set of changes to TikTok’s law enforcement policy make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with government and “regulatory authorities.” TikTok did not respond to repeated questions about the changes.
Violent slapstick videos that glamorize dictators and dunk on Trump have exploded in popularity on YouTube this year, becoming some of the most watched political content in 2025.
Elon Musk, leading Trump’s haphazard effort to cut government overspending, is among the largest beneficiaries of federal government support. His empire was built on it. In the past 15 years, Tesla and SpaceX have sucked in $30 billion in public dollars
At both companies, there has been some speculation that if TikTok appeals the ruling and the case ends up in the Supreme Court, Trump might file an amicus brief asking for time to figure out a solution before a ban would go into effect.
Key members of the artificial intelligence research team that developed Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generation model that helped catalyze the AI boom, have resigned from British AI unicorn Stability AI, Forbes has learned.
The deal was one of several challenges facing the federal business of the $7.3 billion AI startup, whose CEO Alexandr Wang has become an outspoken advocate of American national security amid the threat of China. One expert called the optics “horrible.”
After a startup shared its idea for a tech Shangri-La with Bhutan’s royal government, the kingdom disavowed the project. Now, it’s preparing to announce its own mindfulness-focused “megacity.”
Most big tech companies flag millions—often tens of millions—of tips on child sexual abuse material to law enforcement each year to help keep kids safe. Apple, the outlier, last year flagged 234. (Before that: 160.) Here's why.
Checkout.com, the London-based credit card processing company that ballooned its business model by servicing billions in crypto transactions for Binance clients, cut short its contract with the crypto giant this week, Forbes has learned.
TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial data of its biggest stars — including those in its “Creator Fund” — on servers in China. Earlier this year, CEO Shou Chew told Congress “American data has always been stored in Virginia and Singapore.”
India’s 150 million users were forced to stop using the Chinese-owned app in 2020. But an internal tool reviewed by Forbes showed that ByteDance and TikTok employees can still mine some of their most sensitive data. One employee called it “NSA-To-Go.”