OpenAI has become a for-profit corporation, allowing it to raise more money, acquire companies, and do other things it couldn’t as a nonprofit. The nonprofit OpenAI Foundation controls the for-profit OpenAI Group and owns a 26% stake. Microsoft holds a 27% stake and will continue to hold IP rights through 2032.
Customer data platform Tealium has announced new AI features aimed at improving customer engagement. For example, the Behavioral Insights Agent uses customizable classification to provide faster personalization and segmentation, while Attribute Search has a conversational interface to “talk to your data.” Global AI Settings control which AI features are enabled on account level and profile level.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has sued Microsoft for allegedly misleading Australians about changes to Microsoft 365 costs. Since fall 2025, Microsoft has told subscribers they had to accept the costly integration of Copilot or cancel their subscription. The ACCC says there was a third option called Family Classic without Copilot at the earlier price; this option only appeared if you started to cancel the subscription.
Meta has announced agreements with USA Today, People Inc., and other news publishers to pay for access to their content and link to their articles in its AI chatbot. It’s a sharp contrast to Perplexity, which the Chicago Tribune and New York Times are separately suing for allegedly scraping content and bypassing paywalls. Despite this deal, Meta apparently still opposes compensating publishers for news links in social media posts.