Overview

• OpenAI reported more than 700 million weekly ChatGPT users, with women now a majority of weekly users and 73% of chats unrelated to work.
• OpenAI detailed a teen mode with age prediction, stricter rules for minors, parental controls, and potential emergency notifications to parents or authorities.
• Reporting and job listings indicate OpenAI is rebuilding a robotics team focused on humanoid systems using teleoperation and simulation to drive training.
• Figure AI announced a C round exceeding $1 billion at a $39 billion valuation to scale production, build GPU infrastructure, and expand real‑world data collection, with management outlining plans to deliver 100,000 robots over four years.
• Google plans to invest £5 billion in the UK over two years for AI infrastructure including energy and research, while Huawei forecast a 100,000× surge in societal compute by 2035.