Microsoft has stepped in to take over a large-scale AI data center expansion in Texas that OpenAI had originally planned to lead under the Stargate initiative, signaling a strategic shift in how the two companies are dividing infrastructure responsibilities for the AI buildout.
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, is reportedly in early discussions with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley for an IPO as soon as October 2026 that could raise over $60 billion, making it one of the largest tech listings in history.
New data shows OpenAI's annualized revenue has reached approximately $25 billion while Anthropic's stands at $19 billion, as both AI giants prepare for potential IPOs with starkly different financial profiles.
OpenAI has indefinitely paused plans for an adult erotic chatbot mode after its own advisory board, investors, and staff raised concerns about societal harm, minor safety risks, and a 12% age-verification error rate.
OpenAI's nascent advertising business crossed $100 million in annualized revenue less than two months after launching its US pilot, with plans to expand globally to Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the shutdown of Sora, its AI video-generation model, just months after launch, terminating a landmark billion-dollar licensing deal with Disney and signaling a major strategic refocus ahead of its IPO.
The newly established OpenAI Foundation has announced plans to spend at least $1 billion in 2026, directing funds toward societal benefit projects including education, healthcare, and public-interest AI research.
OpenAI has grown its historic funding round to over $120 billion as CFO Sarah Friar signals the company is eyeing a potential IPO later in 2026, cementing its position as the world's most valuable AI startup.
Nearly 200 activists from Pause AI and QuitGPT marched through San Francisco from Anthropic to OpenAI and xAI offices, demanding CEOs publicly commit to pausing frontier AI development.
OpenAI is sweetening its joint venture pitch to PE firms including TPG and Bain Capital with a 17.5% guaranteed minimum return, early model access, and a $4B capital commitment target.
Despite signing a high-profile partnership with OpenAI months ago, the UK government has not yet trialed any of the company's AI technology in public services, raising questions about the pace and substance of the government's AI adoption strategy.
Alongside its superapp plans, OpenAI is building an 'AI research intern' designed to automate multi-day scientific research tasks, with a launch expected by September 2026 and a longer-term goal of a fully automated multi-agent research system by 2028.
OpenAI is reportedly planning to nearly double its headcount from approximately 4,500 to 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, according to the Financial Times, as the company accelerates its AI development and commercial expansion.
AI coding startup Cursor released Composer 2, a software-development-only model trained exclusively on code data, scoring 61.3 on CursorBench and matching Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 at significantly lower token prices, as the company enters talks for a $50 billion valuation.
OpenAI announced its acquisition of Astral, the startup behind Python's most widely used developer tools including uv, Ruff, and ty, aiming to embed them into the Codex AI coding platform and expand its reach across the full software development lifecycle.
Samsung Electronics has been chosen as the exclusive HBM4 memory supplier for OpenAI's first-generation Titan AI chip, agreeing to supply up to 800 million Gb of 12-layer HBM4 in the second half of 2026.
OpenAI is consolidating its ChatGPT app, Codex AI coding platform, and Atlas browser into a single desktop superapp, aiming to eliminate product fragmentation and sharpen focus as competition with Anthropic intensifies.
Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT was trained on nearly 100,000 of their copyrighted articles without permission or compensation.
Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI after the AI startup's landmark $50 billion cloud infrastructure agreement with Amazon threatened the exclusivity of its Azure partnership.
All eight members of OpenAI's wellbeing advisory board voted against launching an adult erotic mode for ChatGPT in January 2026, warning it could become a 'sexy suicide coach,' but OpenAI overrode the unanimous expert rejection, with the feature now repeatedly delayed.
