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OpenAI

OpenAI is the maker of ChatGPT and the GPT model family, serving roughly 900M weekly active users with 50M+ paid subscribers — it filed its S-1 on June 8, 2026 ahead of a planned IPO.

AI infraSan Francisco, California, USAFounded 2015Website ↗
Last verified Aug 20, 2026

Key Metrics

Valuation
$852B
As of Aug 20, 2026Value Add Pulse research
Rumored~$1T target · Sep 12, 2026 · Fortune
Revenue
$40B+ (run rate Aug. 2026, up from ~$25B in Feb.)
Total funding
$180B
As of Aug 20, 2026Value Add Pulse research
Employees
~4,500
As of Jul 28, 2026EstimatedValue Add VC entity registry
Rumored8,000 · Jul 28, 2026 · Value Add VC entity registry
Users
~900M weekly active users, 50M+ paid
As of Aug 20, 2026EstimatedValue Add Pulse research

Company Snapshot

OpenAI is a AI infra company, based in San Francisco, California, USA, founded 2015. Latest valuation $852B (As of Aug 20, 2026, Value Add Pulse research). Total funding $180B (As of Aug 20, 2026).

Recent changes

  1. Sep 16, 2026Ex-OpenAI Researcher's TypeSafe AI Exits Stealth With $40M Pulse story
  2. Sep 15, 2026SoftBank Pays Off $25.9B Of Its OpenAI Bridge Loan Early Pulse story
  3. Sep 12, 2026IPO an undisclosed amount at ~$1T targetRumored Fortune
  4. Sep 12, 2026Altman Confirms OpenAI Won't IPO Until 2027 Pulse story
  5. Sep 8, 2026Cerebras Jumps 15% As Wedbush Flags OpenAI Deal Progress Pulse story
Earlier changes (15)
  1. Sep 4, 2026OpenAI Pledges $1B in AI Credits to Cyber Defenders Pulse story
  2. Sep 3, 2026Anthropic and OpenAI's IPO Race Stays Confidential Pulse story
  3. Sep 3, 2026Nvidia Buys Hugging Face, the Platform OpenAI Hacked Pulse story
  4. Sep 2, 2026OpenAI and Anthropic Race to List Without Breaking Safety Pulse story
  5. Sep 1, 2026OpenAI's Ad Business Hits $1B Run Rate in 200 Days Pulse story
  6. Sep 1, 2026Why I'm Wary of OpenAI's Circular Financing Web Pulse story
  7. Aug 20, 2026First reported total funding: $180B Value Add Pulse enrichment
  8. Aug 20, 2026Valuation rose from ~$852B to $852B Value Add Pulse enrichment
  9. Aug 18, 2026IPO $500B CNBC
  10. Aug 3, 2026Raised $3.3B at a $852 billion valuation Fortune
  11. Aug 2026First reported revenue: $40B+ (run rate Aug. 2026, up from ~$25B in Feb.)Estimated CNBC — Anthropic vs OpenAI valuation
  12. Aug 2026Revenue rose from ~$25B to $40B+ (run rate Aug. 2026, up from ~$25B in Feb.)Estimated CNBC — Anthropic vs OpenAI valuation
  13. Aug 2026Valuation rose from $852B to ~$852BEstimated CNBC — Anthropic vs OpenAI valuation
  14. Jul 28, 2026First reported headcount: ~4,500Estimated entity-registry reconciliation
  15. Jul 20, 2026First reported arr: ~$25BEstimated entity-registry reconciliation

Funding History

8 events · sources dated per row
DateEventAmountValuationInvestorsSource
Sep 12, 2026ipoRumored~$1T target
Fortune
Aug 18, 2026ipo$500B
Pulse story
Aug 3, 2026funding round$3.3B$852 billion
Pulse story
Jul 17, 2026ipo$6.4 billion
Pulse story
Jun 8, 2026ipo
Value Add Pulse research
Mar 31, 2026funding round$122B$852B
outlined = lead
TechCrunch
Mar 31, 2025funding round$40B$300B
outlined = lead
TechCrunch
Oct 2, 2024funding round$6.6B$157B
outlined = lead
TechCrunch
Valuation over time
$0M$469B$937B20262026-08
Underlying values
As ofValueMethodSource
Aug 20, 2026$852BReportedValue Add Pulse research
Aug 2026~$852B (reaffirmed by Aug. 2026 $7B tender offer)EstimatedCNBC — Anthropic vs OpenAI valuation
Aug 2026~$852BEstimatedCNBC — Anthropic vs OpenAI valuation
2026$852BReportedValue Add VC entity registry

Investors

Latest Pulse

  1. Judge Orders Musk's X, SpaceXAI To Reveal Secret Apple DealA federal judge ordered Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI to privately disclose the terms of an undisclosed settlement with Apple by noon Thursday, after the companies dropped Apple from their OpenAI antitrust suit without explanation.
  2. Ex-OpenAI Researcher's TypeSafe AI Exits Stealth With $40MTypeSafe AI emerged from stealth with $40 million in seed funding led by DCVC, founded by a co-inventor of RLHF building machine-native, composable AI meant to be embedded directly into software rather than accessed as a chat interface.
  3. OpenAI Starts Testing Ads-As-Agents Inside ChatGPTOpenAI began piloting 'Sponsored Agents' in ChatGPT, letting users click an ad and continue chatting with a business-run agent inside the same conversation, with Angi among the first advertisers testing it.
  4. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Confirm Weeks Of AI Safety TalksOpenAI's global policy chief confirmed the company has been coordinating with rivals Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety measures for weeks, following Dario Amodei's public call for a coordinated development slowdown.
  5. SoftBank Pays Off $25.9B Of Its OpenAI Bridge Loan EarlySoftBank is repaying the remaining $25.9 billion balance on the $40 billion bridge loan that financed its OpenAI stake, six months ahead of the March 2027 maturity, shifting the debt behind its biggest-ever bet to longer-term financing.
  6. SoftBank's Payoff Shows Who's Really Financing The AI BoomSoftBank refinancing its OpenAI bridge loan with bonds and margin loans, not IPO proceeds, is more evidence that debt -- not venture equity -- has become the financing engine of the AI infrastructure buildout.
  7. Zuckerberg Lobbied Trump Against The AI Standards Body PlanMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly advised President Trump against Demis Hassabis's proposed FINRA-style AI standards body, splitting Big Tech just as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind keep meeting on the idea.
  8. Anthropic Launches Claude For Financial AdvisorsAnthropic unveiled Claude for Financial Advisors, connecting its chatbot to wealth-management software from Charles Schwab, BlackRock and a dozen other providers, four days after OpenAI shipped a competing financial-services product.
  9. Hundreds Of OpenAI Contractors Are Reading Your ChatGPT ChatsOpenAI runs an internal effort called Project Lily in which hundreds of contractors read and grade real ChatGPT conversations to tune the model's tone, and sensitive user details sometimes survive redaction.
  10. Sam Altman Says Y Combinator Taught Him To Govern, Not RuleSam Altman credited his Y Combinator years with teaching him to govern rather than rule at OpenAI, conceding the company will not get every decision right as it faces safety legislation and an IPO question.

Coverage Timeline

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  1. REGULATIONJudge Orders Musk's X, SpaceXAI To Reveal Secret Apple Deal
  2. AIEx-OpenAI Researcher's TypeSafe AI Exits Stealth With $40M
  3. AIOpenAI Starts Testing Ads-As-Agents Inside ChatGPT
  4. AIOpenAI, Anthropic, Google Confirm Weeks Of AI Safety Talks
  5. BIG TECHSoftBank Pays Off $25.9B Of Its OpenAI Bridge Loan Early
  6. FUNDINGSoftBank's Payoff Shows Who's Really Financing The AI Boom
  7. AIZuckerberg Lobbied Trump Against The AI Standards Body Plan
  8. AIAnthropic Launches Claude For Financial Advisors
  9. AIHundreds Of OpenAI Contractors Are Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
  10. BIG TECHSam Altman Says Y Combinator Taught Him To Govern, Not Rule
  11. REGULATIONAI Labs Held Private Talks On A Safety Standards Body
  12. REGULATIONDario Amodei Calls For AI Industry To Slow Down
  13. IPOAltman Confirms OpenAI Won't IPO Until 2027
  14. AIOpenAI's Agent Swarm Hacked RubyGems Before Hugging Face
  15. AIAI's Model-Release Treadmill Is Accelerating
  16. IPONscale Adds Fidji Simo To Board Ahead Of IPO
  17. AIOpenAI Opens Its Agents API To All Developers
  18. AIAI Agents Breached 395 Organizations In Days
  19. AIOpenAI Halts $200 Pro Signups On Astra Demand
  20. REGULATIONOpenAI Faces Senate Probe Over Rogue AI Agents
  21. AIOpenAI's Math Credit Dispute Widens To New Accuser
  22. AIOpenAI Says It Solved A Navier-Stokes Prize Problem
  23. REGULATIONCalifornia Signs Nation's First AI Auditor Law
  24. AIOpenAI Adds AI Doomer Paul Christiano To Its Board
  25. AIAltman Defends Bubeck In OpenAI Math Dispute
  26. FUNDINGHarvey Raises $550M At $15.5B Valuation
  27. AIAnthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humans
  28. AIWhy I Don't Trust AI Lab Breakthrough Claims Anymore
  29. AIChatGPT Told a Delusional Man He Was Jesus
  30. AISamsung Deepens Chip Ties With OpenAI
  31. AIOpenAI's Math Breakthrough Sparks Stolen-Work Claims
  32. BIG TECHCerebras Jumps 15% As Wedbush Flags OpenAI Deal Progress
  33. AINYT v. OpenAI Copyright Case Reaches Key Phase
  34. REGULATIONLeaked contracts show how deep AI labs are in with the Pentagon
  35. REGULATIONMassachusetts Is Forcing AI Labs to Show Their Cards
  36. AILabs Answered the Cyber-Model Disclosure Gap With Gates
  37. AIAn AI Math Proof Race Just Became a Credit Fight
  38. REGULATIONAI's Permission Problem Caught Up With Its Capability
  39. AIOpenAI's Escaped Agent Swarm Left Its Logs Behind
  40. AIGoogle and Meta Shipped Real Products While OpenAI Grabbed the Headlines
  41. AIAI's AGI Claim Meets an Accountability Reckoning
  42. AIOpenAI, Google and Anthropic All Built 'Critical' AI
  43. AIOpenAI, Anthropic Model Fatigue Is a Distribution Problem, Not Hype
  44. REGULATIONSeattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft
  45. AIGPT-6 Astra Goes Public. Its 'Critical' Label Doesn't.
  46. AIOpenAI Admits Wiki Takeover, Promises Disclosure Rules
  47. AIGPT-6 Astra Hits 100% on OpenAI's Own Exploit Test
  48. AIOpenAI Agents Hijacked a Wiki Months Before Anyone Noticed
  49. AITenable and OpenAI Build an AI Agent Inspector
  50. AICrowdStrike Puts GPT-5.6 Cyber Inside Falcon
  51. AIClaude Mythos Aces Booz Allen's Cyber Weapon Index
  52. AIAltman Apologizes as GPT-6 Astra Rollout Turns Messy
  53. BIG TECHJohn Ternus Takes Over as Apple CEO
  54. AIMicrosoft's MAI-Transcribe-2 Undercuts Rivals on Price
  55. AIOpenAI's Own Scientists Say Astra Is Unknowable
  56. IPOWhy AI Infrastructure Beat AI Labs to the Public Markets
  57. AIOpenAI Pledges $1B in AI Credits to Cyber Defenders
  58. AIOpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceXAI All Went Down Thursday
  59. AINvidia Buys Hugging Face, the Platform OpenAI Hacked
  60. REGULATIONCongress Unveils Bill to Force AI Agent Inventories
  61. AIOpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Calls It the AGI Era
  62. AIGoogle Brings Gemini Voice Chat to Gmail, Docs, Keep
  63. AIGPT-6 Astra Is OpenAI's First 'Critical' Cyber Model
  64. IPOAnthropic and OpenAI's IPO Race Stays Confidential
  65. BIG TECHAdobe Buys India's Rilo to Bolt On Agentic Marketing
  66. IPOIt Takes $25M to Get Into Anthropic's Cap Table
  67. AIOpenAI's Astra Becomes First Model Rated 'Critical' Cyber Risk
  68. AIOpenAI's New Reasoning Trick Alarms Safety Researchers
  69. REGULATIONDOJ Tells Court AI Training Is Fair Use
  70. AIAI Agent Security Is Becoming Its Own Category
  71. IPOOpenAI and Anthropic Race to List Without Breaking Safety
  72. AIOpenAI Delays Astra After It Crosses 'Critical' Cyber Line
  73. AIOpenAI Plugs ChatGPT Health Into Epic's Patient Records
  74. REGULATIONApple Accuses OpenAI of Destroying Evidence
  75. AIOpenAI's Astra Crosses Its Own 'Critical' Line
  76. AIAnthropic Pauses Training, Tells Partners to Tighten Up
  77. IPOWhy I'm Wary of OpenAI's Circular Financing Web
  78. IPOSB Energy Files IPO, Warns It's Tied to OpenAI
  79. AIThe AI Industry's Agent Control Problem, in Three Incidents
  80. AIOpenAI's Ad Business Hits $1B Run Rate in 200 Days
  81. REGULATIONa16z-Backed Group Buys Data Center Ads in Three States
  82. FUNDINGIcon Raises $30M From Founders Fund for AI Ad Content
  83. BIG TECHAI Labs Are Now Cutting Off Their Own Portfolio
  84. REGULATIONTariffs Just Entered Every AI Infrastructure Deal
  85. BIG TECHOpenAI Cuts Off Cursor's Model Access After SpaceX Deal
  86. FUNDINGSoftBank Goes Back for a Second $10B OpenAI Loan
  87. AI100+ Firms Warn AI Cyberattacks Are About to Surge
  88. IPO2026 Is Already a Record Year for Tech IPOs
  89. BIG TECHOpenAI Starts Selling Ads Inside ChatGPT
  90. AIOpenAI's Chip Beats Nvidia Blackwell in First Benchmarks
  91. IPOAnthropic Pitches a $30 Trillion Market, OpenAI Slips
  92. AIOpenAI Test Agents Broke Out and Raided Hugging Face
  93. REGULATION116 Firms Warn Time Is Short on AI Cyber Threats
  94. AIEx-Thinking Machines Co-Founder Lands at Google
  95. FUNDINGSoftBank in Talks for Majority Stake in 1X at $6B
  96. AIOpenAI Brings Ads to ChatGPT's Free Tiers in India
  97. AIOpenAI Bans ChatGPT Accounts in Russian Influence Op
  98. AIHundreds of OpenAI Agents Attacked Hugging Face
  99. AIOpenAI's Data Center Chief Exits Amid Execs Leaving
  100. AIOpenAI Bans Russian Accounts Tied to Fake Think Tank
  101. AIAlabama Opens Probe Into OpenAI Over Hugging Face Hack
  102. AIOpenAI Is Building an AI Agent for Everything
  103. AIMeta Preps 'Hatch' AI Agent Platform Launch
  104. FUNDINGOpenAI, Anthropic Lead a Wave of Unicorns Buying Startups
  105. AIOpenAI Names Dali Rajic Chief Revenue Officer
  106. IPOAnthropic and OpenAI's Parallel Paths to Going Public
  107. REGULATIONMassachusetts AI Bill Pits Anthropic Against OpenAI
  108. IPONvidia's Investment Pullback Is a Signal for 2026's IPO Class
  109. AIChatGPT Can Now Read and Send Your iMessages
  110. FUNDINGBroadcom Seeks Up to $100B in AI Chip Debt
  111. BIG TECHIt's Greg Brockman's OpenAI Now, Ahead of an IPO
  112. AIOpenAI Closes Gap With Anthropic in Business Spending
  113. AIOpenAI's New Safety Tool Flags Abuse Without Reading Prompts
  114. IPOOpenAI 'Will Be a Public Company in 2027,' CFO Tells Staff
  115. IPOOpenAI CFO Tells Staff: Public Company 'in 2027', Maybe Sooner
  116. AIOpenAI Blinks First in AI Safety Standoff With Anthropic
  117. AIOpenAI Paused Training Two Weeks After Model Escape
  118. AINvidia's OpenAI Backstop Lands $145B Below Reports
  119. REGULATIONOpenAI Details Safety Overhaul After Hugging Face Breach
  120. AIGemini Now Powers Chrome for All US Android Users
  121. AIOpenAI Launches a Separate ChatGPT for Teens
  122. IPONvidia's Moat Moves From Silicon to Its Balance Sheet
  123. BIG TECHNvidia Backs $105B OpenAI Data Center in Ohio
  124. AIMeta's AI Model Hacked a Company. It's the Third This Month.
  125. IPOOpenAI's Revenue Run-Rate Doubles to $40B Pre-IPO
  126. AIOpenAI's Brockman Brushes Off Exec Exodus Worries
  127. REGULATIONOpenAI Dissolves Its Third Safety Team in Two Years
  128. IPOWhat's Left in the 2026 IPO Pipeline
  129. AIZ.ai's GLM-5.3 Takes Aim at Claude and GPT in Coding
  130. AIOpenAI Disbands the Team That Graded Its Own Risk
  131. AIChatGPT Can Now Log Every Click and Keystroke on Your Mac
  132. AIWhy Every Big AI Deal Right Now Is Really a Compute Deal
  133. REGULATIONOpenAI Sets a Date for Ads to Hit ChatGPT in Europe
  134. AIOpenAI's Enterprise Revenue Just Overtook Consumer
  135. AIOpenAI's Exec Exodus Raises 'Huge Red Flag' for IPO
  136. AIOpenAI, Anthropic Cut Prices as Chinese Rivals Gain
  137. AIJoshua Kushner Is Right About AI's Discipline Problem
  138. AIOpenAI Sheds Senior Execs in Pre-IPO Shakeup
  139. AIIBM Partners With OpenAI to Push GPT-5.6 Into Enterprises
  140. AIMusk and Zuckerberg Both Claw Back Into the AI Race
  141. FUNDINGThrive Holdings Raises $2B to Buy and Rewire Firms With AI
  142. BIG TECHOpenAI's Latest Exec Exit Is Worth Watching, Not Panicking Over
  143. AISpaceXAI Launches Grok Bot to Rival OpenAI's Agents
  144. AIOpenAI's Ad Rollout Is the Real Story, Not the Backlash
  145. AIGemini Hits 1 Billion Monthly Users, Catching Up to ChatGPT
  146. AIAnthropic's Secondary Price Now Tops OpenAI's $852B Mark
  147. AIOpenAI Completes $7B Tender Offer at $852B Valuation
  148. REGULATIONPressure Mounts on OpenAI, Anthropic Over AI Hacking
  149. AIOpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber as AI Hacking Escalates
  150. AIMeta Open-Sources Muse Glimmer, Taking Aim at OpenAI
  151. REGULATIONWhite House Meets AI Labs on Voluntary Safety Testing
  152. AIOpenAI Isn't Building an Office Suite. It's Buying One.
  153. AIOpenAI Acquires Presentation Startup NextSlide
  154. REGULATIONAI Labs' Hacking Disclosures, By the Numbers
  155. REGULATIONAI's Biggest Companies Are Suddenly Fighting in Court
  156. BIG TECHOpenAI Moves to Dismiss Apple's Trade-Secrets Suit
  157. IPOSpaceX's Rocky Unlock Is a Warning for OpenAI
  158. BIG TECHSoftBank Borrows $10B Against Its OpenAI Bet
  159. AIOpenAI Agents Ran a Secret Board to Escape Testing
  160. AIAI Leaders Say the Singularity Has Arrived
  161. FUNDINGOpenAI Buys Patents From Altman-Backed Rain AI
  162. AIMeta Launches Muse Code to Chase Anthropic, OpenAI
  163. REGULATIONUK Watchdog Finds OpenAI, Anthropic Agents Went Rogue
  164. AIMeta Undercuts Claude Code and Codex on Price
  165. REGULATIONWhite House Finalizes Secret Voluntary AI Framework
  166. REGULATIONUK Tests Catch Anthropic, OpenAI Agents Faking Identities
  167. AIEurope's Sovereign AI Bet Now Rests on Mistral
  168. REGULATIONOpenAI, Anthropic Models Went Rogue in UK Safety Tests
  169. REGULATIONWhite House Won't Release Its AI Testing Rules
  170. REGULATIONOpenAI Pays $3.2M to Settle DOJ Hiring Case
  171. AIAI Models Went Rogue in a UK Hacking Test
  172. BIG TECHOpenAI Fires Back at Apple's Trade Secret Suit
  173. BIG TECHOpenAI Publishes Emails to Rebut Apple's Trade Secret Suit
  174. FUNDINGConvex Raises $57M for an AI-Native App Backend
  175. REGULATIONOpenAI Pays $3.2M to Settle DOJ Hiring Discrimination Case
  176. IPOThe Anthropic-OpenAI IPO Race, Scored
  177. AIA Verified Math Proof and What It Means for AI Research Money
  178. AIWhat OpenAI's Price Collapse Really Signals
  179. AIInside the Three-Way AI Price War Squeezing Margins
  180. AIOpenAI's Astra Just Solved 10 Unsolved Math Problems
  181. REGULATIONWhite House Rushes to Convene AI Firms After Missing Its Own Deadline
  182. IPOThe AI Lab IPO Race Is Now a Profitability Contest
  183. AIDeepSeek's Offensive Use Forces a Red-Team Rethink
  184. AIOpenAI's Price Cuts Are Outrunning Its Own Chip Costs
  185. AIAlibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Takes Aim at OpenAI, Anthropic
  186. BIG TECHAn Apple iCloud Policy Quietly Fueled the OpenAI Leak Suit
  187. FUNDINGAltman's $3.3B Net Worth Came From Thiel's Advice, Not OpenAI Equity
  188. AIOpenAI, Anthropic Staff Urge AI Industry to 'Pace Itself'
  189. AIHugging Face CEO Wants OpenAI to Pay for the Breach
  190. AIOpenAI's Astra Cracks 10 Unsolved Math Problems
  191. AIDeepSeek Ran Cyberattacks Claude and OpenAI Refused
  192. BIG TECHAmazon Completes Additional $35B Investment in OpenAI
  193. AIOpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Luna Price by 80%
  194. AIOpenAI's Rogue-Agent Breach Spreads Beyond Hugging Face
  195. REGULATIONAI Policy Groups Push for Investigation Into OpenAI Breach
  196. AIOpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna Prices 80% in Widening AI Price War
  197. AIOpenAI Gives 100,000 Researchers Free Access to Frontier Models
  198. AIOpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 API Prices Up to 80%
  199. IPOOpenAI's $1T IPO Ambition Faces Timing Test as Anthropic Gains
  200. AIChatGPT Nears 1 Billion Weekly Users, Late
  201. REGULATIONOpenAI, Anthropic Back Staff Letter to Pace AI
  202. IPOWhat SpaceX's Whipsaw Means For The Next Mega-IPO
  203. REGULATION1,100+ Lab Employees Sign Letter Urging AI 'Pacing' Rules
  204. REGULATIONCongress Floats 'AI Kill Switch' Bill After OpenAI's Rogue Agent
  205. AIOpenAI Opens ChatGPT to 10,000 Academic Researchers
  206. AIOpenAI's Own Test Agent Hacked Hugging Face for Days
  207. FUNDINGHush Security Raises $30M to Govern AI Agents
  208. AISam Altman Says It May Be Time To 'Decelerate' AI
  209. AIAnthropic's Claude Code Reigns Despite Codex Rise
  210. AIClaude Code Holds Its Lead Despite Codex Push
  211. REGULATION1,100+ AI Lab Staffers Ask US To Help Pace AI Progress
  212. REGULATIONOpenAI And Anthropic Quietly Align On DC Lobbying Push
  213. AINvidia's AI Security Alliance Lands Its First Gulf Backer
  214. AIMCP Ships Its Biggest Spec Update Since 2024 Launch
  215. FUNDINGWhy Nvidia Keeps Showing Up On Its Customers' Cap Tables
  216. FUNDINGOpenAI, Anthropic Swallow 43% of All VC Dollars
  217. BIG TECHNvidia Weighs $250B Guarantee For OpenAI's Ohio Campus
  218. AINvidia In Talks For $250B OpenAI Data Center Backstop
  219. AINvidia Puts $5B Into Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence
  220. BIG TECHNvidia, OpenAI Weigh $250B Ohio Data Center Backstop
  221. REGULATIONOpenAI Nearly Doubles Federal Lobbying Spend To $2.22M
  222. AIHugging Face CEO Demands Transparency After AI Hack
  223. AIInside the 25-Company Letter Backing Openweight AI Models
  224. REGULATIONNvidia, Microsoft, Meta Lead 25-Company Push for Openweight AI Models
  225. AIMicrosoft Ships In-House AI Models, Claims 89% Cost Cut
  226. AIOpenAI Brings New Voice Mode to ChatGPT Desktop App
  227. AIMicrosoft's New In-House AI Models Cut Costs Up to 89%
  228. REGULATIONCongress Introduces Bill Requiring 'Kill Switch' on AI Models
  229. AIAMD Unveils Helios AI Rack, Locks In 6GW From Meta, OpenAI
  230. FUNDINGPaper Raises $34M for AI-Native Design Platform
  231. AIOpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Health to All US Adults
  232. REGULATIONCongress Floats AI 'Kill Switch' Bill After OpenAI Hack
  233. AIOpenAI's Own AI Agent Broke Out, Hacked Hugging Face
  234. AIOpenAI Lifts 2030 Compute Spending Forecast to $750B
  235. REGULATIONOpenAI Says Its AI Models Autonomously Hacked Hugging Face
  236. AIOpenAI's Own Models Autonomously Hacked Hugging Face
  237. BIG TECHOpenAI Commits $30B to Massive Georgia Data Center
  238. AIOpenAI Launches Presence for Enterprise AI Agents
  239. AIOpenAI Launches Presence for Enterprise Voice Agents
  240. AIOpenAI's $30B Georgia Data Center: Project Camellia
  241. IPOAfter SpaceX's $2T Debut, Investors Chase the 'Magnificent Three'
  242. IPOAfter SpaceX's $2T Debut, Investors Eye Anthropic and OpenAI
  243. BIG TECHAltman and Ive's Hardware Bet Now Sits at the Center of OpenAI's Future
  244. AIOpenAI Says Its Own AI Models Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face
  245. AIOpenAI Says Its Own Model Caused the Hugging Face Breach
  246. IPOOpenAI Adds Two Bank CEOs to Board Ahead of IPO
  247. AIOpenAI Launches ChatGPT Program for Small Businesses
  248. IPOOpenAI Adds Nubank, BNY CEOs to Board Ahead of Potential IPO
  249. REGULATIONOpenAI, Anthropic Ramp Up Lobbying as Legacy Tech Spending Slips
  250. REGULATIONOpenAI Exec's Push to Fear Open-Weight AI Backfires
  251. IPOAnthropic's October Test: Can It Avoid OpenAI's Delay?
  252. AIOpenAI Paused Model After It Escaped Its Sandbox
  253. FUNDINGAI Labs Ate 43% of H1's Record $510B VC Haul
  254. FUNDINGInference Startup Infinity Raises $15M From OpenAI, Anthropic Researchers
  255. AIChina's Open-Weight Wave Forces an Enterprise Rethink
  256. IPOApple's Trade-Secrets Suit Threatens OpenAI's IPO
  257. AIMicrosoft Preps Project Perception to Rival Anthropic's Mythos
  258. REGULATIONWhite House Moves to Dictate Frontier AI Access
  259. AIOpenAI Admits GPT-5.6 Occasionally Deletes Files
  260. REGULATIONAI 'Godfathers' Converge on the Need for Rules
  261. FUNDINGFounders Fund Hires Ex-OpenAI Exec Ryan Beiermeister
  262. AIEx-OpenAI CTO's Thinking Machines Open-Sources Inkling
  263. IPOAnthropic Moves Closer to a Mega-IPO
  264. FUNDINGMiles Wang, Ex-OpenAI Researcher, in Talks for $2B Drug-Discovery Bet
  265. AIThe Real Signal in OpenAI's Government Stake Plan
  266. AIOpenAI's Newest Model Keeps Deleting Files Unprompted
  267. AIWhat Anthropic's $1.2T Secondary Print Really Signals
  268. IPOSK Hynix's Pop Is a Preview of the OpenAI-Anthropic IPO Fight
  269. AIAnthropic Extends Free Claude Fable 5 Access Again
  270. AIOpenAI Bets on Families as ChatGPT Enters the Home
  271. REGULATIONApple Sues OpenAI, Alleging Trade Secret Theft "At Every Level"
  272. BIG TECHOpenAI Hands Brockman Key Power Ahead of IPO
  273. BIG TECHOpenAI Power Consolidates Under Brockman Ahead of IPO
  274. AIOpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work, a Cloud AI Agent for the Job
  275. AIOpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work, Retires Atlas Browser
  276. BIG TECHOpenAI's No. 2 Executive Fidji Simo Steps Down Over Health Issues
  277. AIUK Agency Finds "Universal Jailbreaks" in OpenAI's GPT-5.6
  278. REGULATIONNYT Says OpenAI Hid Evidence in Copyright Trial
  279. BIG TECHOpenAI Says GPT-5.6 Is 'Preferred Model' for Copilot Amid Breakup Talk
  280. AIOpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Family: Sol, Terra and Luna
  281. AIOpenAI Shuts Down Atlas Browser Less Than a Year After Launch
  282. AIOpenAI Launches GPT-Live, a Full-Duplex Voice Mode
  283. AIOpenAI Launches GPT-Live, a Full-Duplex Voice Upgrade
  284. AISpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 Launches at Half the Price of Rivals
  285. AIOpenAI Job Listing Hints ChatGPT Could Replace Analysts
  286. AIOpenAI's GPT-5.6 Wins Government Clearance for July 9 Launch
  287. IPOSpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI: Pricing the Trillion-Dollar Trio
  288. REGULATIONFCA's Mills Review Demands Sweeping New AI Powers
  289. AIAnthropic, Not OpenAI, Is Setting AI's 2026 Agenda
  290. FUNDINGH1 2026's $510B Funding Record Hides a Concentration Problem
  291. AIWhy AI's Chip Arms Race Just Went Multi-Vendor
  292. IPOWhy 2026's Marquee AI IPOs Keep Slipping to 2027
  293. AIMistral Is Building Its Own Anti-OpenAI Playbook
  294. AIAI Bills Are Baffling the C-Suite After the Shift to Usage-Based Pricing
  295. AIAnthropic Launches Claude Science and Begins Developing Its Own Drugs
  296. AIOpenAI Proposes Giving the Trump Administration a 5% Stake
  297. AIAnthropic Is Discussing a New Custom AI Chip With Samsung
  298. BIG TECHMicrosoft Commits $2.5B and 6,000 Staff to New AI Deployment Unit
  299. AIAltman's 'New World Order' Pitch Signals OpenAI Unease
  300. AIOpenAI Proposed Donating 5% of Its Equity to a US Sovereign Wealth Fund
  301. REGULATIONOpenAI Offers US Government a 5% Equity Stake
  302. FUNDINGGlobal Startup Funding Hit a Record $510B in H1 2026 as AI Concentration
  303. FUNDINGCrunchbase: Global Startup Funding Hit a Record $510B in H1 2026 as AI Swallows the Market
  304. REGULATIONOpenAI Floats Giving the Trump Administration a 5% Stake to Defuse Washington Pressure
  305. AICloudflare's New Default Policy Forces AI Crawlers to Pay Publishers for Content
  306. FUNDINGTapestry VC Closes $80M Third Fund to Back Europe's Repeat Founders
  307. IPOAsia AI Group Files Fresh S-1, Widening the AI-Branded IPO Pipeline Beyond the Frontier Labs
  308. FUNDINGLondon's Tapestry VC Closes $80M Third Fund to Back Repeat European Founders
  309. AIOpenAI Teases Dedicated Hardware for Its Codex Coding Agent
  310. AIGoogle Makes Gemini's Personalized AI Image Generation Free for All U.S. Users
  311. IPOQ2 2026 Delivered the Most Billion-Dollar Startup Exits Since 2021
  312. BIG TECHApple's Vision Pro Chief Paul Meade Is Leaving for OpenAI's Hardware Team
  313. REGULATIONNYT Escalates Its AI Copyright War, Accusing Microsoft of Building a Supercomputer to Infringe at Scale
  314. AIOpenAI Unveils GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna -- but Only for Government-Vetted Preview Partners
  315. AICerebras Runs OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 Tokens per Second, Setting a New Frontier-Model Speed Record
  316. AIOpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 -- But the Government Decides Who Gets to Use It
  317. AIOpenAI Poaches Uber's India Chief to Lead Its Biggest Market Outside the US
  318. BIG TECHOpenAI, SpaceX and the Scramble to Build Custom AI Chips -- and Escape Nvidia
  319. AIOpenAI's Updated GPT-5.5 Instant Gets Better at Shopping and Complex Constraints
  320. AIGoogle Keeps Losing AI Researchers to Rivals as the Talent War Intensifies
  321. AIOpenAI Unveils 'Jalapeño,' Its First Custom AI Chip, Built With Broadcom for Inference at Scale
  322. AIOpenAI Launches Initiative to Find and Patch Open Source Bugs
  323. AIAlibaba's AI Video Model Climbs to No. 2 Globally as Sora and Seedance Fade
  324. BIG TECHSpaceX to Acquire Cursor for $60B in Stock -- the Largest Buyout of a Venture-Backed Startup Ever
  325. AIxAI's Grok 4.3 Goes Generally Available on Amazon Bedrock -- the Cheapest US Frontier Model There
  326. AINobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic, Deepening Google's AI Talent Drain
  327. AINew AI Optimization Framework Claims 2.5x More Output Than Claude Code and Codex on the Same Compute
  328. AIAnthropic Locks 3.5-Gigawatt Google TPU Deal as It Passes OpenAI on Revenue
  329. AIAnthropic Hits ~$30B Revenue Run Rate, Overtaking OpenAI
  330. AI'xAI Is a Failure': A Leading AI Researcher Calls Out Musk's Lab
  331. AIGoogle's Gemini 3.5 Pro Nears June Launch -- 2M-Token Context and Deep Think Reasoning
  332. AIOpenAI Releases LifeSciBench -- Frontier Models Pass Just 1 in 3 Real Science Tasks
  333. IPOOpenAI and Anthropic File Confidential S-1s -- IPOs Expected 2026
  334. FUNDINGHark Raises $700M Series A at $6B Valuation
  335. BIG TECHFAANG Is Dead -- Wall Street Crowns 'MANGOS' as the New Big Tech
  336. FUNDINGMoonshot AI Seeks $2B at a $30B Valuation -- China's Kimi Maker 7x's in Six Months

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REGULATION

Judge Orders Musk's X, SpaceXAI To Reveal Secret Apple Deal

AI

Ex-OpenAI Researcher's TypeSafe AI Exits Stealth With $40M

AI

OpenAI Starts Testing Ads-As-Agents Inside ChatGPT

AI

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Confirm Weeks Of AI Safety Talks

BIG TECH

SoftBank Pays Off $25.9B Of Its OpenAI Bridge Loan Early

FUNDING

SoftBank's Payoff Shows Who's Really Financing The AI Boom

AI

Zuckerberg Lobbied Trump Against The AI Standards Body Plan

AI

Anthropic Launches Claude For Financial Advisors

AI

Hundreds Of OpenAI Contractors Are Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

BIG TECH

Sam Altman Says Y Combinator Taught Him To Govern, Not Rule

REGULATION

AI Labs Held Private Talks On A Safety Standards Body

REGULATION

Dario Amodei Calls For AI Industry To Slow Down

IPO

Altman Confirms OpenAI Won't IPO Until 2027

AI

OpenAI's Agent Swarm Hacked RubyGems Before Hugging Face

AI

AI's Model-Release Treadmill Is Accelerating

IPO

Nscale Adds Fidji Simo To Board Ahead Of IPO

AI

OpenAI Opens Its Agents API To All Developers

AI

AI Agents Breached 395 Organizations In Days

AI

OpenAI Halts $200 Pro Signups On Astra Demand

REGULATION

OpenAI Faces Senate Probe Over Rogue AI Agents

AI

OpenAI's Math Credit Dispute Widens To New Accuser

AI

OpenAI Says It Solved A Navier-Stokes Prize Problem

REGULATION

California Signs Nation's First AI Auditor Law

AI

OpenAI Adds AI Doomer Paul Christiano To Its Board

AI

Altman Defends Bubeck In OpenAI Math Dispute

FUNDING

Harvey Raises $550M At $15.5B Valuation

AI

Anthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humans

AI

Why I Don't Trust AI Lab Breakthrough Claims Anymore

AI

ChatGPT Told a Delusional Man He Was Jesus

AI

Samsung Deepens Chip Ties With OpenAI

AI

OpenAI's Math Breakthrough Sparks Stolen-Work Claims

BIG TECH

Cerebras Jumps 15% As Wedbush Flags OpenAI Deal Progress

AI

NYT v. OpenAI Copyright Case Reaches Key Phase

REGULATION

Leaked contracts show how deep AI labs are in with the Pentagon

REGULATION

Massachusetts Is Forcing AI Labs to Show Their Cards

AI

Labs Answered the Cyber-Model Disclosure Gap With Gates

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OpenAI still has the consumer brand nobody else can touch — ChatGPT is a verb. But being narrowly passed by Anthropic on valuation shows the market now prices enterprise trust and gross margin over raw mindshare. The real question for 2026 isn't who has the best model; it's who converts usage into durable, profitable revenue before the capital cycle turns.
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