Raking in billions though it may be, OpenAI has also committed to spending over $1 trillion over the next decade (yes, trillion). The company has recently locked in deals for more than 26 gigawatts of computing capacity from Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom — infrastructure that’ll cost vastly more than what’s coming in.

When Walmart and OpenAI announced that the retailer would integrate with ChatGPT, the question became how quickly OpenAI could deliver on the promise of agents buying things for people. In the battle of AI-enabled commerce, getting agents to securely complete transactions is one of the biggest hurdles.

OpenAI is seeing the adoption of its tools at lightning speeds. With 800 million weekly ChatGPT users, it could dominate the AI market by 2030.

Seven nonprofits that have been critical of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, say it sent them wide-ranging subpoenas as part of its litigation against Elon Musk.

The deal capped a flurry of pacts between OpenAI and the world’s biggest AI chip suppliers, including Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. All of them involve OpenAI spending billions of dollars on data centers stocked with hundreds of thousands of chips. Broadcom’s stock rose 9.9% Monday following news of its deal.

OpenAI is partnering with Walmart to allow shoppers to make purchases directly within ChatGPT, furthering the artificial intelligence company’s push to turn its chatbot into a virtual merchant as it seeks to boost revenue.

The deal whisperer for Sam Altman’s OpenAI has arrived down under as the tech giant looks to strike deals, but there may be some hoops to jump through along the way.

Only a tiny sliver — roughly five percent — of the 800 million people using ChatGPT are actually paying for a subscription.