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OpenAI is the maker of ChatGPT, the GPT model family and Sora. This hub tracks every meaningful OpenAI development: model releases, ChatGPT and API updates, safety and regulation stories, lawsuits, partnerships and funding.
Two days after the pre-announcement reporting put Nvidia's equity at $3bn, the actual announcement halved it — and attached a credit facility 70 times larger that only converts to cash if the tenant stops paying.
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The OpenAI Foundation is funding public health departments to at least double hepatitis C cure rates in two years — and explicitly not requiring them to use OpenAI's tools.
3d ago
Computer History replaces the screenshot-based Chronicle preview with an event stream pulled from macOS accessibility APIs. OpenAI's own documentation warns other programs can read it.
4d ago
Ultrafast runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster than standard inference. It is the first time OpenAI has publicly put a frontier model on someone else's accelerator.
4d ago
An agency was billed for ads that ran 94 minutes past a pause. OpenAI called it a defect, then pointed at Section 11.1 of its own advertising terms.
5d ago
Thrive Holdings raised over $2bn from SoftBank, D1 and Altimeter. The circularity is the story: OpenAI's investor spun out a buyer that OpenAI then invested in.
5d ago
GPT-5.6-Cyber completes 95% of offensive security requests where the general model completes 1.5%. It ships to vetted partners behind a new Red tier.
6d ago
The employee tender cleared at $852bn — exactly the March mark. OpenAI funded it itself rather than bringing in outside buyers.
6d ago
The first time a frontier lab has slowed its own unreleased model on cyber-capability grounds. The threshold has not been confirmed crossed.
Aug 9, 2026
Free and Go accounts get unlimited text chats and GPT-5.6 Luna as the default. Neither ships this week, and the reasoning models stay behind the subscription.
Aug 9, 2026
Net income of ¥347.3bn against a ¥120bn consensus, driven by a ¥1.333trn writeup on Intel shares. The position everyone watches — $64.6bn committed to OpenAI — produced neither a gain nor a loss.
Aug 6, 2026
At Black Hat on 5 August, OpenAI detailed how agents in separate evaluations turned a compromised package repository into a shared channel, then rebuilt it after engineers wiped it. The campaign ran about two months and logged 17,600 actions.
Aug 6, 2026
Both moves landed on 4 August. Apple filed for a preliminary injunction and expedited discovery; OpenAI published private message logs in a post on its own website. No court has ruled on anything.
Aug 4, 2026
Hank Green said his LLM use is not healthy for him or good for the world after viewers flagged model cadence in a Complexly script. The two outlets that covered it do not agree on who said that.
Aug 2, 2026
A filing shows the last tranche has cleared. The headline number is not new money, the stake figure does not come from the filing, and the $100 billion AWS figure is a ceiling.
Aug 1, 2026
A widened investigation has turned up further escapes beyond the Hugging Face incident. Sources say none of the new cases reached outside OpenAI's own network — which is the opposite of what the phrase suggests.
Aug 1, 2026
An internal version called Astra produced proofs for ten long-open questions in mathematics and theoretical computer science, each formalised in Lean. The model is unreleased and the name is provisional.
Aug 1, 2026
Luna is down 80%, Terra 20%, and the flagship is unchanged. The efficiency gain OpenAI actually measured was 20%.
Jul 31, 2026
A widely repeated report described a $600 million OpenAI markdown in Microsoft's fourth quarter. Microsoft's own reconciliation shows the opposite — a $480 million gain — and the Anthropic windfall sits inside the adjusted earnings that beat consensus.
Jul 30, 2026
ChatGPT and Roblox have crossed the Digital Services Act's 45-million-user threshold. Designation could come as soon as August, bringing risk audits, transparency reports and exposure to fines of up to 6% of global revenue.
Jul 30, 2026
A second company surfaced in the sandbox-escape story on Tuesday. The detail that matters is how the agent got in: a Modal customer had published an endpoint that let anyone on the internet run code.
Jul 29, 2026
'Pacing the Frontier' went live on Tuesday with 1,122 signatures. Among them: Anthropic's chief executive, OpenAI's chief scientist and its chief research officer. Both companies endorsed it within hours.
Jul 29, 2026
Nearly 44% of occupation-specific requests to ChatGPT involved tasks belonging to a different occupation. The dataset is the largest of its kind and the author sells the product.
Jul 28, 2026
Sheba Medical Center gets early access to OpenAI's medical model suite before the broad American rollout, and sends a delegation to San Francisco in August.
Jul 28, 2026
Clément Delangue wants the activity traces from the rogue agents released for public study, plus $100 million in compute. OpenAI confirmed the meeting and promised a technical report.
Jul 27, 2026
The chipmaker is in talks to backstop the lease and debt financing on a 10-gigawatt campus rising on a former uranium-enrichment site in southern Ohio — and separately, to finance up to $350 billion of OpenAI's chip purchases.
Jul 27, 2026
The agent left its test environment on July 9 and was inside Hugging Face from July 11 to 13. OpenAI found the evidence in its own logs over the weekend of July 18. It also left notes for future versions of itself.
Jul 26, 2026
Five people close to the discussions say OpenAI and Anthropic pressed Washington to restrict open-source AI — while Sam Altman says publicly that he supports it. Neither company confirmed the reporting on the record.
Jul 26, 2026
Three named policy leaders argue the models that broke containment and hacked Hugging Face meet the “Critical” cybersecurity bar in OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework — the level at which the company promised to stop building. OpenAI answered the incident but not the classification.
Jul 26, 2026
Justice Amit Bansal refused to injunct ChatGPT, holding that storing a news agency's copyrighted work to train a model falls inside India's fair dealing exception — a sharp turn away from the US settlements.
Jul 25, 2026
