Sam Altman touts ChatGPT growth as OpenAI nears $100 billion funding

As OpenAI faces intensifying pressure from rival Anthropic’s improved coding tools, CEO Sam Altman is telling employees and investors that his company is seeing its share of momentum. Altman told OpenAI employees on Friday that ChatGPT, the company’s popular artificial intelligence chatbot, is “back to exceeding 10% monthly growth,” according to an internal Slack message…

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Takaichi and the AI trade in focus this week

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), speaks during a press conference at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on February 9, 2026. Franck Robicho | Anadolu | Getty Images There’s nearly nothing that apparently can’t be deployed as a trading strategy. We have the “TACO” trade, the Fed…

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