OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder (opens techcrunch.com)
Odessia was founded by Sonder's Francis Davidson; OpenAI has not said what it plans for travel.
Context: Thrive Holdings plans to bring AI to ADT's home security business.
From TechCrunch: OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.
Odessia was founded by Sonder's Francis Davidson; OpenAI has not said what it plans for travel.
OpenAI announced it will buy the low-profile developer tooling startup; terms were not disclosed, and observers read it as a shot at GitHub for the age of agents.
Oura buys Counsel Health for $625M weeks after postponing its own IPO; Oura added Counsel's AI chatbot to its app earlier this year.
Businesses in ChatGPT (beta) lets businesses claim verified profiles and see how often ChatGPT mentions them; US e-commerce and online-service firms can launch their own agents.
The WSJ, citing leaked documents, says the adjusted operating margin improved from -150% to -109% over the same period.
A Japanese cooling-tower maker searches 70 years of drawings with the OpenAI API; engineers find a repair drawing in 4.5 minutes instead of nearly an hour.