OpenAI weighs action against Apple over Siri subscription revenue
Bloomberg and others report that OpenAI hired outside counsel after the iPhone ChatGPT partnership produced far less subscription revenue than expected.
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Codex comes to the ChatGPT mobile app
OpenAI added Codex controls to ChatGPT on iPhone, iPad and Android, letting users monitor and approve coding tasks away from the desktop.
OpenAI hardens Codex with a Windows sandbox
The new design uses separate Windows accounts, network policy and a command runner to make Codex isolation an operating-system boundary rather than an environment-variable promise.
SoftBank’s Vision Fund profit rests on OpenAI
SoftBank booked a $46 billion Vision Fund gain, with $45 billion tied to OpenAI, making Masayoshi Son’s AI bet unusually concentrated.
Palo Alto finds 75 flaws with frontier AI
Palo Alto says Claude Mythos, Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5-Cyber helped uncover 26 CVEs covering 75 flaws, while warning attackers may get similar power within months.
OpenAI spins up a $14B deployment company
OpenAI’s Deployment Company packages AI rollout, consulting and forward-deployed engineering into a separately capitalized enterprise services business.
SoftBank Turns Sharp Site Into AI and Battery Hub
SoftBank will reuse Sharp's former Sakai LCD plant for an AI data center, AI hardware work and grid-scale battery production tied to its OpenAI and Stargate bets.
OpenAI limits GPT-5.5-Cyber to vetted security teams
OpenAI is opening a more permissive GPT-5.5 variant for approved cyber defenders, with stronger access controls from June 1.
Saline Rejected Stargate. Construction Still Started
A Michigan township voted down a $16 billion OpenAI-Oracle Stargate data center, only to face a lawsuit, a settlement and rapid construction.
Nvidia's $40B AI Equity Loop
Nvidia has poured roughly $40 billion into AI companies this year, raising a harder question for investors: chip demand, or a self-reinforcing financing loop?
OpenAI Adds Trusted Contact to Bring People Into Crisis Decisions
ChatGPT can now alert a user-nominated trusted contact after automated risk detection and human review identify a possible self-harm crisis.
ChatGPT Ads Opens With CPC Bidding
OpenAI has opened ChatGPT Ads Manager to all U.S. businesses, lowering entry costs and adding click-based bidding as it tests whether conversational intent can become a large ad business.
ChatGPT Comes to Excel and Google Sheets
OpenAI has made ChatGPT for Excel and Google Sheets generally available, pairing spreadsheet assistance with financial data integrations from major market-data providers.
OpenAI Reworks Voice Agents With Three Realtime Models
OpenAI adds reasoning speech, live translation, and streaming transcription to the Realtime API, with Zillow and Deutsche Telekom among early users.
ChatGPT Ads Reach $109 Million a Month
OpenAI is taking ChatGPT ads into five more markets as it opens self-serve buying in the U.S. and tries to turn early revenue into a $2.5 billion annual business.
OpenAI Says Its 2026 Compute Bill Will Hit $50 Billion
Greg Brockman told a court OpenAI expects to spend $50 billion on compute this year, exposing the scale and circular financing behind its AGI push.
OpenAI turns enterprise AI deployment into a PE-backed product
OpenAI's new Deployment Company packages engineers, agents and private-equity distribution into a $10 billion enterprise AI venture with a 17.5% return floor.
ChatGPT Moves to GPT-5.5 Instant by Default
OpenAI has quietly made GPT-5.5 Instant the default ChatGPT model, pointing to lower hallucination rates, shorter answers and broader memory-source visibility.
Harvard FAS Drops Central Funding for ChatGPT Edu
Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences will stop centrally funding ChatGPT Edu after undergraduate use fell short, while offering Claude access by course request.
OpenAI Bets on $8 ChatGPT Go as Plus Shrinks
Internal projections suggest OpenAI expects cheaper ChatGPT Go subscriptions and ads to drive scale while Plus users decline sharply.
Musk asks court to unwind OpenAI structure
Elon Musk told an Oakland court that OpenAI’s shift away from nonprofit control violated its founding promise and asked for damages to flow back to the charity.
OpenAI misses user goal, chip stocks slide
OpenAI falling short of its 1 billion-user target has raised new questions about future AI compute spending.
OpenAI Offers $25,000 for a GPT-5.5 Bio Jailbreak
OpenAI is testing whether a single prompt can make GPT-5.5 answer five biosafety questions inside Codex Desktop without triggering review.
Microsoft and OpenAI dissolve Azure exclusivity deal
Microsoft and OpenAI have formally rewritten their seven-year exclusive partnership, ending OpenAI's obligation to run its products solely on Azure and replacing the AGI trigger with a fixed 2032 termination date.
OpenAI publishes new document with five principles
On April 26, OpenAI released a document titled "Our principles," outlining five principles: democratization, empowerment, universal prosperity, resilience, and adaptability. This is OpenAI's highest-profile policy document since its 2018 Charter, but analysis suggests the principles serve more to legitimize recent controversial decisions than to set future direction.
Musk drops fraud claims, seeks to oust Altman
Elon Musk withdrew all fraud allegations against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft just before trial, narrowing the case to unjust enrichment and breach of charitable trust while seeking to remove Altman as CEO.
Altman issues belated apology over eight deaths in Tumbler Ridge
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly apologized for not alerting law enforcement after the company banned a ChatGPT account in June 2025 whose user repeatedly described shooting scenarios. The account belonged to Jesse Van Rootselaar, who killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in spring 2026.
OpenAI Tells Developers to Rewrite Prompts for GPT-5.5
OpenAI has updated its official GPT-5.5 prompt guide, urging developers to stop reusing prompts from GPT-5.2 or 5.4, as they hinder the new model's performance. The guide recommends a fresh start with a new seven-part structure and notes a default reasoning effort change from high to medium.
OpenAI Knew About Shooter's Account but Didn't Alert Police, 8 Killed
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologized to the Tumbler Ridge community for failing to report a banned ChatGPT account to law enforcement. The account belonged to the perpetrator of a February 2026 school shooting that left eight dead.
OpenAI Makes ChatGPT Free for Clinicians
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Clinicians, a free version for verified U.S. doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and pharmacists, built on GPT-5.4 with clinical search, workflow skills, and privacy protections.
OpenAI officially launches GPT-5.5
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, codenamed Spud, just six weeks after GPT-5.4. The new model emphasizes autonomous task execution and agentic capabilities, with pricing that signals a shift from selling chat models to selling an agent runtime for enterprises.
Anthropic spent $1.56M on lobbying in Q1, outpacing OpenAI by 60%
Anthropic's Q1 2026 lobbying spending hit $1.56 million, quadrupling year-over-year and surpassing OpenAI's $1.02 million by 60%, as Big Tech's total lobbying expenditure reached a record high.
OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a team automation platform, replacing custom GPTs
OpenAI has launched workspace agents, a new feature that replaces custom GPTs and turns ChatGPT from a chatbot into an autonomous team automation platform powered by the Codex model.
OpenAI's New Model Spud Could Launch as Soon as Tomorrow
Polymarket betting data shows an 81% probability that OpenAI's next-generation model, codenamed Spud, will be released on April 23, 2026. The model, potentially named GPT-5.5 or GPT-6, completed pretraining on March 24, and its official name remains undecided pending internal evaluations.
ChatGPT Images 2.0 arrives as DALL-E 3 bows out
ChatGPT Images 2.0 arrives as DALL-E 3 bows out. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.
ChatGPT Down for 3 Hours, Cause Still Unknown
A major global outage on April 20 took ChatGPT offline for roughly three hours, affecting Codex, the API, and Projects. OpenAI provided minimal information and no root cause analysis, raising concerns about AI infrastructure reliability for businesses.
OpenAI Bets $20 Billion on Cerebras
OpenAI commits over $20 billion to Cerebras for AI compute, with equity warrants and a $1 billion data center fund, as the battle shifts from training to inference. Nvidia counters by acquiring Groq for $20 billion.
OpenAI opens cybersecurity tool to thousands of teams as Anthropic takes opposite path
OpenAI expands access to GPT-5.4-Cyber to thousands of individuals and hundreds of security teams, while Anthropic restricts its rival Claude Mythos to about 40 top companies under Project Glasswing.
Anthropic's March Revenue Triples, Giving Some OpenAI Investors Second Thoughts
Anthropic's annualized revenue surged from $9 billion to $30 billion in three months, driven by enterprise coding tool Claude Code, while some investors who hold stakes in both Anthropic and OpenAI are rethinking valuation logic as OpenAI's stock trades at a discount in secondary markets.
OpenAI Adds Sandbox to Agent SDK
OpenAI's April 15 update to the Agents SDK introduces a sandbox mechanism that isolates AI agents in a secure computing environment, preventing them from accessing unauthorized files and tools. The update also includes model-native harnesses for long-chain tasks and support for multiple third-party sandbox providers.
OpenAI runs Codex-Spark on Cerebras, 15x faster
OpenAI has deployed its GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark model on Cerebras WSE-3 chips instead of Nvidia GPUs, achieving over 1,000 tokens per second — roughly 15 times faster than the standard version. The move marks OpenAI's first production deployment on non-Nvidia hardware.
OpenAI turns Codex into a desktop automation agent
OpenAI has updated Codex with background computer use, allowing it to operate other macOS apps autonomously while users continue working. The update also includes a built-in browser, image generation, over 90 new plugins, SSH access, and self-scheduling capabilities.
OpenAI Signs Novo Nordisk to Transform Drug Discovery
OpenAI and Novo Nordisk announced a strategic partnership on April 14 to integrate AI across the drugmaker's entire value chain, from molecular screening to clinical data analysis and global sales operations, with full integration targeted by year-end.
GPT-5.4-Cyber CTF Score Jumps From 27% to 76%
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4-Cyber, a cybersecurity variant of GPT-5.4, achieving a 76% CTF benchmark score and introducing binary reverse engineering, directly competing with Anthropic's Mythos.
OpenAI acquires Silicon Valley tech talk show TBPN
OpenAI has acquired TBPN, a popular Silicon Valley tech talk show, marking its first purchase of a media company. The deal raises questions about editorial independence and OpenAI's broader strategy to build a media and cultural platform.
OpenAI Acquires Personal Finance AI Hiro
OpenAI has acquired Hiro Finance, a personal AI finance startup founded by Digit creator Ethan Bloch, to bolster ChatGPT's financial capabilities and advance its super-app strategy.
Molotov Cocktail Thrown at Sam Altman's Home
A 20-year-old man threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home. The incident, captured on surveillance video, occurred alongside the publication of a critical New Yorker investigation into Altman.
Three AI Giants Form Alliance, Accuse DeepSeek and Others of Stealing 16 Million Conversations
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have joined forces to combat distillation attacks, accusing Chinese AI companies DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts to extract over 16 million interactions from Claude.
OpenAI alumni launch the Zero Shot venture fund
OpenAI alumni launch the Zero Shot venture fund. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.
OpenAI Plans Q4 2026 IPO, Retail Investors Can Participate
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar confirmed the company will reserve a portion of IPO shares for retail investors. The AI firm, valued at $52 billion post-funding, targets a ~$1 trillion valuation in a Q4 2026 listing alongside SpaceX and Anthropic.
OpenAI Releases Child Safety Blueprint
OpenAI published a Child Safety Blueprint on April 8, proposing a framework for the AI industry to address child sexual exploitation content, backed by data showing over 8,000 AI-generated CSAM cases in the first half of 2025.
OpenAI Retires GPT-4o, Some Users Are Upset
OpenAI removed GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026, as only 0.1% of daily active users still manually selected it. The decision sparked backlash from a small but vocal group of users who had formed an emotional attachment to the model's distinctive conversational style.
OpenAI's Next Model Codenamed Spud, Pre-Training Complete
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed on March 24 that pre-training for the next large model, internally codenamed Spud, is finished and release is weeks away. Co-founder Greg Brockman described it as containing two years of research with a "big model feel," signaling a potential qualitative leap rather than a minor iteration.
OpenAI proposes three plans for the AI economy
OpenAI has released a policy proposal advocating for a public wealth fund, a tax on AI profits, and subsidies for a four-day work week, sparking debate on how to distribute the gains of artificial intelligence.
Microsoft Develops Three In-House AI Models to Reduce Reliance on OpenAI
Microsoft quietly launched three proprietary AI models on April 2, aiming to lessen its dependence on OpenAI. The models include speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and image generation tools, with a strategic focus on distribution and pricing leverage.
OpenAI Raises $122 Billion at $852 Billion Valuation
OpenAI closed a record $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion valuation, with Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank as lead investors, and disclosed $2 billion in monthly revenue as it eyes an IPO.
GPT-5.3 Codex Moves From Code Completion to Real-Time Collaboration
OpenAI's Codex has evolved from a code completion tool into a real-time collaborative coding agent, with new Spark and Realtime modes, while also raising critical security concerns that prompted industry-wide reassessment.
OpenAI Shuts Down Sora, Losing Millions Daily
OpenAI has shut down its Sora video generation service, citing unsustainable daily losses of around $1 million and the collapse of a potential partnership with Disney.
OpenAI Shifts Codex Billing to Per-Seat, Usage-Based Model
OpenAI has introduced usage-based billing for dedicated Codex seats alongside a price cut for ChatGPT Business, signaling a push to mature AI coding tools for enterprise deployment.
Reasoning Model Showdown: o-Series, R1, Gemini — Which Thinks Better?
A comprehensive comparison of major AI reasoning models from OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google, and Anthropic, examining their approaches, trade-offs between depth and speed, and the open-source vs. closed-source landscape.
GPT-5.4 merges Codex reasoning and Computer Use into one model
OpenAI's GPT-5.4 unifies advanced coding, reasoning, and computer control in a single architecture, ending the era of a separate programming model.
GPT-5.2 Challenges ARC-AGI General Reasoning Benchmark
OpenAI's GPT-5.2 scores 72% on ARC-AGI-1 and 18% on ARC-AGI-2, highlighting the gap between current LLM performance and true general intelligence.
GPT-5.3 Codex Receives OpenAI's First High-Severity Security Rating
OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Codex model has been assigned the company's first "high" cybersecurity risk level under its internal safety assessment framework, prompting the deployment of the most comprehensive security protections to date.