Token-maxxing is dead, OpenRouter's token usage plateaus(openrouter.ai)
32 points by pranshuchittora | 32 comments
OpenRouter's rankings page showing LLM token usage statistics and model popularity across its API platform.
#ai-industry on Hacker News
19 stories tagged ai-industry, newest first.
Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June(ft.com)
203 points by JumpCrisscross | 62 comments
Financial Times article reporting that Anthropic received the highest junk-grade credit rating in June, shown behind a subscription paywall.
Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'(cnbc.com)
220 points by m463 | 164 comments
CNBC article reporting that research firm New Constructs called Anthropic's planned $2 trillion Nasdaq IPO the most ridiculous IPO of 2026.
The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI(bsky.app)
54 points by doener | 33 comments
A Bluesky thread arguing that the 'superintelligence' framing is a public humiliation ritual for OpenAI and the AI sector, tied to regime politics.
OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled(cnbc.com)
331 points by mfiguiere | 216 comments
Financial Times article reporting that OpenAI's annualised revenues are $20bn lower than the company previously signalled, shown behind a subscription paywall.
AI Companies Are Parasites(coryd.dev)
37 points by cdrnsf | 13 comments
A personal blog opinion post on coryd.dev arguing AI companies are parasites that scrape content without compensation, train models on it, and sell metered access.
Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs(reuters.com)
31 points by 6thbit | 17 comments
Reuters article on Anthropic's IPO prospectus, covering its AI ambitions and rising costs; the capture shows only a device verification screen.
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity(thecivilian.co.nz)
388 points by ljewalsh | 304 comments
Satirical news article from The Civilian claiming AI companies are competing to show their models are the most existentially threatening to humanity.
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B(businessinsider.com)
1918 points by mfiguiere | 888 comments
Business Insider exclusive reporting that Nvidia has been in talks to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for more than $13 billion.
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt(futurism.com)
628 points by technewssss | 317 comments
Futurism article reporting that AI companies are using off-balance-sheet arrangements to hide large amounts of debt.
Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year(arstechnica.com)
339 points by greenchair | 252 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that leaked audited financial documents show OpenAI losing billions of dollars a year as R&D and other costs outpace revenue.
AI is slowing down(wheresyoured.at)
597 points by crescit_eundo | 646 comments
Ed Zitron newsletter essay arguing AI growth is slowing while the industry needs trillions in revenue by 2030 to justify compute spending.
Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?(newyorker.com)
1871 points by adrianhon | 763 comments
New Yorker investigative feature by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz examining doubts about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's trustworthiness, using interviews and documents.
OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation(cnbc.com)
493 points by surprisetalk | 457 comments
OpenAI announcement that it closed a $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion post-money valuation.
Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public(ft.com)
346 points by GeorgeWoff25 | 275 comments
News report that Anthropic has hired IPO lawyers and is preparing for a potential 2026 public listing as it competes with OpenAI.
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030(ft.com)
515 points by akira_067 | 493 comments
FT Alphaville article on an HSBC estimate that OpenAI must raise at least $207bn by 2030 to keep funding its losses; the page shows a registration gate.
Anthropic raises $13B Series F(anthropic.com)
534 points by meetpateltech | 538 comments
Anthropic announcement that it raised $13B in a Series F round at a $183B post-money valuation, dated Sep 2, 2025.
Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI(reuters.com)
553 points by jdoliner | 643 comments
Reuters news article reporting that an Elon Musk-led investor group made a $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI.
We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO(twitter.com)
1973 points by staranjeet | 1941 comments
OpenAI's post on X announcing an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO with a new board of Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.