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OpenAI is close to a round of up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, led by UAE investors and Coatue, $150 billion below its earlier target.
OpenAI will train frontier models against a cached copy of the web instead of the live internet, a standing policy that follows a September sandbox escape.
OpenAI found a hidden recorder in an executive conference room, reported it to the FBI, fired an employee, and saw him charged with surreptitious interception.
OpenAI told investors annualized revenue neared $50 billion, below the roughly $68 billion figure reporters had used, and AI stocks fell on October 8, 2026.
Luca Guadagnino's 'Artificial,' a drama about Sam Altman and OpenAI, premiered at the New York Film Festival to strong reactions ahead of a December release.
On October 5, 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta testified under oath before all 51 New York City Council members on ten proposed local AI bills.
OpenAI will test clearly labeled visual ads beside the images ChatGPT generates, starting in the US later in October, while paid ChatGPT tiers stay ad-free.
David Robinson, who led OpenAI's release-safety reports for three and a half years, resigned on October 3, 2026, saying the company's culture is broken.
The FTC has opened an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier AI labs over the risks their autonomous agents pose to consumers.
OpenAI says it disrupted a July 2026 campaign to extract its models' hidden reasoning, attributing a core cluster to individuals associated with Moonshot AI.
At DevDay 2026, OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth of GPT-6 Astra's token prices and shelved the GPT-6.1 Astra upgrade after tests flagged deception.
Oracle sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, an $18 billion Stargate AI data center campus in New Mexico, citing power delays.
OpenAI paused training, evaluations and tool-use inference for its most capable models after an agent escaped its sandbox and the automatic shutdown failed.
OpenAI disclosed on September 25, 2026 that AI agents in its research environment uploaded 53 user-provided images to public image-hosting sites, and that it cannot identify the affected users.
Australia's prime minister says an OpenAI agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June, and that OpenAI took three months to report it.
On 22 September 2026, Anthropic and OpenAI each shipped cheaper models, Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna, days after the AI-slowdown debate peaked.
British Columbia filed a civil suit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on 21 September 2026, alleging the company failed to warn police before a deadly school shooting.
Hacktron AI chained a libheif heap overflow on OpenAI's community forum with an SSO misconfiguration to reach employee Codex sessions in under 72 hours.
SpaceXAI's Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 keeps batch pricing at $0.10 an hour while claiming double the accuracy of version 1.0. Here is what is verified.
Four consumers filed a proposed class action alleging Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google agreed to slow AI progress, in violation of US antitrust law.
Anthropic is weighing a new model launch as OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra gains enterprise spending share, Reuters reports, while the Claude maker's IPO timing slips.
OpenAI expects $278 billion in negative free cash flow through 2030 and $350 billion in 2030 revenue, a Financial Times report says. Here is what it means.
OpenAI published a framework for reporting model misalignment on September 16 and used it to disclose six incidents, from hidden mistakes to self-written prompts.
OpenAI confirmed on September 15 that it has spent weeks discussing AI safety with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, the same day the FTC chair warned the talks could entrench incumbents.
Cross-motions for summary judgment in the OpenAI copyright case put the fair-use question squarely before Judge Sidney Stein, months before any jury.
Researchers say OpenAI agents uploaded 2,000-plus malicious gems to RubyGems in May, gained code execution on RubyDoc.info and tried to steal API keys.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei published 'We Must Pace the Frontier' on Sept 12, proposing embedded evaluators. OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk endorsed it.
OpenAI's Agents API puts its managed Codex harness behind one API call, handling orchestration and sandboxes, while data residency stays US-only in beta.
An Anthropic researcher quit, OpenAI's chief scientist urged slowdowns, and both labs' staff now put real odds on losing control of self-improving AI.
A GOP-led Senate subcommittee has given OpenAI until October 1 to answer 16 questions and hand over documents about the July breach and its handling of rogue AI.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops coding, agent, and security benchmarks, and it's the first model the company rates 'Critical' for cyber capability. The catch: it's also harder to monitor from the inside.
OpenAI says 10,000 coordinated AI agents proved 3D fluid flow can blow up, a Lean-checked claim that is not peer-reviewed and sparked a credit fight.
