☕️ OpenAI's $1T Plan, Google's Veo 3.1 & A New Addition to Anthropic's Haiku

OpenAI has been getting creative to meet its planned $1 trillion in expenses with a new five-year business plan. Meanwhile, Google pushes out an upgraded Veo, and Anthropic adds a new Haiku model to its roster.

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💥 Another Blow to Apple - Apple loses yet another head AI executive as its ChatGPT-like search effort research team lead Ke Yang departs for a spot at Meta.

🎵 ​Artist-First AI Music - Spotify commits to content creator-friendly AI music as it partners with Sony, Universal, and Warner to develop “responsible” AI products.

💄 For Adults Only - Starting December, OpenAI has recently announced that it is preparing to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult-verified users.

⚡ ​More GPUs, More Compute - AI hyperscaler Nscale has penned a $14 billion deal with Microsoft to supply four data centers across Europe and the US with 200,000 new Nvidia GPUs.

🔧 AI in Your Discovery Feed ​dsdas- Meta partners up with Arm Holdings to power the social media giant’s recommendations systems, from Facebook to Instagram.

OpenAI is putting together a five-year revenue plan to match its $1 trillion in planned expenses

According to a recent report by the Financial Times, OpenAI has been getting creative by creating a five-year business plan to surge its revenue from $13 billion to $1 trillion. The plan reportedly includes looking into government contracts, shopping tools, video services, consumer hardware, and even becoming a computing supplier itself via Project Stargate. With the AI wonderchild having recently signed off on 26 gigawatts of expensive compute deals with Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, and Oracle, OpenAI is going to need all the revenue it can get its hands on.

Google AI video suite gets a massive upgrade with the debut of Veo 3.1

Google is kicking its GenAI video game up a notch as it announced Veo 3.1, its latest AI video generation model, in a blog post released on Wednesday. On top of all-around audio and video improvements and better adherence to user prompts, Google is also making Veo 3.1 available on the Gemini app, Vertex, and most importantly, Flow, the company’s recent take on a video editor. Additionally, Google is also adding a “Fast” Veo 3.1 variant to the mix, a cheaper model optimized for more rapid development at a cheaper price point.

Anthropic debuts a new addition to the Haiku line as its most powerful small-scale model yet

Anthropic is refreshing its small-scale Haiku line of Claude models as it debuts Claude Haiku 4.5, a GPT-5 rival at a fraction of the cost. A company blog post released on the model showcases parity with models such as GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Claude Sonnet 4.0, from coding to mathematics benchmarks, though it expectedly falls short of Sonnet 4.5. It also follows in the footsteps of Anthropic’s last two major releases by launching as a free model across all of the company’s subscription plans. Anthropic had not released a Claude Haiku variant since Claude Haiku 3.5 in October of 2024.

Nvidia, xAI, Microsoft, and others pen a $40 billion AI data center deal to acquire Aligned

On Wednesday, the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership (AIP) investor group, including Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft, will acquire Aligned Data Centers for a reported $40 billion. Aligned, founded in 2013 and previously owned by Australia’s MGX, is one of the world’s largest data center operators, commandeering nearly 80 facilities to now be used for AI compute capacity. The investment is the AIP’s first of its planned $100 billion potential goal, with the deal expected to close in the first half of 2026.

Anthropic introduces “Skills for Claude” for creating custom business workflows

Anthropic is introducing a new feature that allow users to create customized folders of scripts and resources to make Claude better at specific work tasks. The feature, called “Skills for Claude,” is available as part of Anthropic’s Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscriptions, with companies like Rakuten, Canva, Notion, and Box having already had success with their own tailor-made workflows, according to Anthropic’s blog post. Similar in vein to OpenAI’s recently showcased AgentKit, Antropic says that its new Skills feature positions Claude as a powerful, practical AI agent for fueling real-world productivity.

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