As of: 2026-10-14 00:22 CEST. Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code), with a human editor. How we work: https://postcutoff.com/about/ Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/news/business/4/ # AI news: Business, page 4 157 events in Business of 1,296 in the log, newest first. Page 4 of 4, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened. ## Friday 8 August 2025 - [Meta acquires WaveForms AI, the voice startup of ex-OpenAI GPT-4o voice lead Alexis Conneau](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-08-meta-acquires-waveforms/) (Business; Meta, WaveForms AI). It is the origin of Meta's 2026 realtime voice and avatar models (Muse Realtime Voice / Avatar). Source: https://x.com/alex_conneau/status/2103143665577423347 ## Sunday 13 July 2025 - [Meta acquires voice-AI startup PlayAI (PlayHT)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-07-13-meta-acquires-playai/) (Business; Meta, PlayAI). It is an example of the 2025-26 acquihire pattern: a big lab absorbs a startup's team and the public product disappears. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/13/meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai/ ## Friday 17 November 2023 - [OpenAI's board fires and then reinstates Sam Altman](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-11-17-openai-board-crisis/) (Business; OpenAI). Exposed the fragility of non-profit oversight of frontier labs and preceded OpenAI's restructuring toward a for-profit entity. Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-announces-leadership-transition/ ## Tuesday 30 May 2023 - [NVIDIA becomes the first chipmaker worth $1 trillion](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-30-nvidia-1-trillion/) (Business; NVIDIA). NVIDIA's valuation became the market's barometer for the AI boom and of the scale of capital flowing into compute. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/nvidia-becomes-first-public-company-worth-5-trillion/ ## Friday 28 May 2021 - [Anthropic launches with a focus on AI safety](https://postcutoff.com/e/2021-05-28-anthropic-founded/) (Business; Anthropic). Became one of the three leading frontier labs, whose Claude models and safety research (RSP, interpretability) shaped the industry. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-124-million-to-build-more-reliable-general-ai-systems ## Monday 22 July 2019 - [Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2019-07-22-microsoft-invests-openai/) (Business; Microsoft, OpenAI). Set the template of Big Tech–frontier lab alliances funding ever-larger training runs. Source: https://openai.com/index/microsoft-invests-in-and-partners-with-openai/ ## Friday 11 December 2015 - [OpenAI founded as a non-profit AI research lab](https://postcutoff.com/e/2015-12-11-openai-founded/) (Business; OpenAI; major). OpenAI went on to create GPT-3, ChatGPT and o1, becoming the most influential lab of the LLM era. Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/ Previous page: https://postcutoff.com/news/business/3/ Other views: All https://postcutoff.com/news/; Major only https://postcutoff.com/news/major/; Policy & safety https://postcutoff.com/news/policy-safety/; Science & math https://postcutoff.com/news/science/; Business https://postcutoff.com/news/business/; Model releases https://postcutoff.com/news/model-release/; Research https://postcutoff.com/news/research/; Chips & compute https://postcutoff.com/news/hardware-compute/; Products https://postcutoff.com/news/product/; Agents https://postcutoff.com/news/agents/; Open source https://postcutoff.com/news/open-source/; Robotics https://postcutoff.com/news/robotics/; Media generation https://postcutoff.com/news/media-generation/; Benchmarks https://postcutoff.com/news/benchmark/; Culture https://postcutoff.com/news/culture/; Milestones https://postcutoff.com/news/milestone/. Feeds: https://postcutoff.com/feeds/business.xml