12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab

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OpenAI lost at least 11 scientists and executives in 2025, including more than half a dozen researchers to Meta in the summer.

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5 AI advertising controversies that turned heads this year, from Meta's AI granny to Coca-Cola's shape-shifting trucks

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Coca-Cola's holiday ad, featuring AI, got mixed feedback.

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Some elite AI researchers say language is limiting. Here's the new kind of model they are building instead.

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Top AI researchers, such as Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun, are building world models, which they say have more potential than large language models.

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Scribe raised $75 million at a $1.3 billion valuation to fix how companies adopt AI. Read its pitch deck.

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Scribe cofounder and CEO Jennifer Smith.

Scribe

How Y Combinator founders are pitching the AI boom

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Garry Tan is a top seed investor.

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Y Combinator founders seized the AI boom in 2025, with increasingly younger teams securing millions in seed funding.

The rise of the AI wingman

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I cofounded my AI startup while on paternity leave. Here's how I balance work and being a dad.

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Aaron Cannon cofounded an AI startup that recently raised $30 million. He also picks up his 3-year-old every day from preschool.

Aaron Cannon

Read 46 pitch decks that creator-economy startups used to raise millions of dollars

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Dub, a fintech startup that lets people copy influencers' stock trades, raised a $30 million Series A round in 2025.

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Using AI to avoid getting your car towed

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Parking enforcement in action

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Elon Musk says he's making a 'joyful' edit to Tesla's master plan

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk

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