📋 Quick Takeaways

• Snowflake and OpenAI announce $200M multi-year partnership bringing GPT-5.2 directly to enterprise data platforms
• Oracle reportedly considering 20,000-30,000 layoffs to fund $156B AI data center expansion amid banking pullback
• OpenAI confirms GPT-4o retirement on February 13, 2026, as usage shifts to GPT-5.2 with only 0.1% still using legacy model
• Sam Altman pushes back on NVIDIA chip dissatisfaction reports, calling them “insanity”
• Anthropic partners with Williams F1 racing team as “official thinking partner” in unprecedented AI-sports deal
• Google launches Project Genie to AI Ultra subscribers, enabling real-time interactive world generation
• Waymo targets September 2026 for London robotaxi launch, marking first European commercial operation

💼 Enterprise AI Partnerships

Snowflake and OpenAI Forge $200 Million Enterprise AI Partnership

Major Enterprise Deal: Snowflake announced on February 2 a multi-year $200 million partnership with OpenAI to integrate frontier AI models directly into its data platform, marking a significant shift in enterprise AI strategy.