Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.

Last week, thousands of pages of evidence from the case were unsealed, including partial 2025 depositions of most of the key players involved, including Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Mira Murati, and Satya Nadella, along with ex-board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley — both of whom played key roles in the 2023 firing of Altman.

ZDNET's key takeaways ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare both debuted last week.Google's MedGemma 1.5 model was introduced shortly thereafter.They all signal the growing presence of AI within healthcare.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar addressed concerns regarding the company's massive infrastructure spending, revealing that revenue has grown roughly 10x.

OpenAI is signing huge deals with a handful of companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Microsoft and Oracle are spending significant amounts to build the capacity OpenAI wants. One stock looks much riskier than the other at around the same valuation.

The collaboration will help OpenAI's models deliver faster response times for more difficult or time-consuming tasks, the companies said.

SpaceX could go public in 2026, potentially with the largest IPO in history. For this Giz Asks, we asked experts to weigh in on the potential risks and rewards of investing. “I would pay no attention whatsoever to Elon Musk. He's an idiot. Very wealthy, but he's still an idiot.”

Musk has called previous reports about a SpaceX IPO in 2026 "accurate." Other media outlets have indicated that the company could look to raise over $30 billion in a potential IPO at a valuation that could be as high as $1.5 trillion. The company recently conducted a secondary share sale at an $800 billion valuation.