OpenAI is acquiring Tomoro, the Edinburgh-based AI consulting firm it was born alongside, as the founding acquisition of its $14 billion Deployment Company - copying Palantir's forward-deployed engineer model to close the gap between AI capability and enterprise adoption.
Nvidia posted record quarterly revenue of $68.1bn for October-December 2025, up 20% compared with the third quarter of last year and a sizzling 73% more than a year earlier. The company said sales were being driven by accelerated computing and AI, with customers scrambling to get their hands on its high-powered Blackwell chip.
Shares of Palantir ( NASDAQ:PLTR) have been turbulently climbing back in the past month, and while the latest 7% slip in the face of what seems to be a Santa Claus slump, especially for tech stocks, investors might not wish to bet against CEO Alex Karp and company as they look to drive a comeback and bring the pain to Michael Burry, who's likely hanging onto his big bearish bets against the firm going into the new year.
Anthropic is once again raising the bar in the AI race. On Monday, the company unveiled Claude Opus 4.5, which it calls its most advanced AI model yet, just three months after its previous release. Anthropic says the latest version delivers major improvements in generating computer code and workplace documents, such as Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations. It also includes new capabilities for creating more sophisticated, long-running AI agents.