OpenAI Accelerates Ad Push with Meta Hires & Slashed Prices, Apple Antitrust Worries Developers

The Information’s Apple Reporter Aaron Tilley talks with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about the DOJ’s potential antitrust settlement with Apple and why developers fear it won’t go far enough. We also talk with Digital Advertising Reporter Alix Coutures about OpenAI’s rapidly expanding ad business, lower prices and Meta hires; Proof CEO Pat Kinsel about verifying the identities behind AI agents; and Architect Founder and CEO Brett Harrison about an auction marketplace for cheaper AI inference. Lastly, The Information’s Editor-at-Large Martin Peers discusses CoreWeave’s financing pressures and founders’ stock sales, and whether Anthropic may have missed its peak IPO window.

Articles discussed in today’s show:

-https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apples-antitrust-settlement-talks-spur-worries-among-developers

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Chapters:

01:13 - Tesla Roadster demonstration and today’s headlines

03:06 - Apple’s potential DOJ antitrust settlement

13:06 - OpenAI’s advertising expansion and Meta hires

23:31 - Proof’s identity verification for AI agents

33:03 - Architect’s AI inference auction marketplace

42:20 - CoreWeave’s stock sales and neocloud financing

47:11 - Did Anthropic miss its peak IPO moment?