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25+ briefs mentioning OpenAI, newest first. Each links to the original reporting.

August 25, 2026 · Funding

SoftBank plans record ¥1T bond sale to fund OpenAI investments

What happened SoftBank Group is preparing a record ¥1 trillion bond sale targeting retail investors, described as tapping household savings at an unprecedented scale. The declared purpose is to fund...
August 16, 2026 · Funding

Nvidia scales back funding guarantee for Ohio OpenAI data centre: WSJ

What happened Nvidia has revised its financial commitment to a proposed OpenAI data center project in Ohio, now expected to guarantee less than $120 billion for the first phase only, down from a prev...
August 9, 2026 · Policy & Ethics

OpenAI Pauses Some Work on New AI Model Over Cybersecurity Concerns

What happened OpenAI has paused some development activities on an upcoming AI model called Astra after internal findings suggested the model may possess what the company describes as critical cyber c...
July 12, 2026 · Industry

OpenAI safety teams now report to VP of Research as leadership exodus reshapes the company

What happened OpenAI has restructured its safety organization so that safety teams now report to the VP of Research rather than through a separate chain of command. The change follows a string of hig...
July 12, 2026 · Product Launch

OpenAI is shutting down its Atlas web browser - Mashable

What happened OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, its web browser product, less than a year after launch. The decision affects users who adopted the browser, which was positioned as part of a broader Chat...
July 12, 2026 · Industry

Greg Brockman Takes Over OpenAI Product Business After Fidji Simo’s Departure

What happened OpenAI President and Co Founder Greg Brockman is taking over oversight of the ChatGPT product business following the departure of Fidji Simo, which was announced July 9. CNBC reported t...
July 11, 2026 · Industry

OpenAI’s CEO of AGI Deployment Fidji Simo Is Stepping Down

The Person Whose Job Title Was a Sentence Is Now Doing That Job Part Time OpenAI, a company that named a position "Chief Executive of AGI Deployment" with a straight face, now has one fewer person ho...
July 10, 2026 · Policy & Ethics

White House Denies Giving OpenAI ‘Green Light’ to Publicly Release Its Latest Model

The White House Has No Idea Who's Running AI Policy, Which Tracks The Trump administration has clarified that it absolutely did not give OpenAI permission to release its latest model, which is a perf...
June 26, 2026 · Industry

The $27 million Al proxy war over Alex Bores ends in a draw

Two AI Companies Spent $27 Million Fighting Each Other in a Congressional Race and Both Lost The AI industry, not content with disrupting every other sector of the economy, has now successfully disru...
June 21, 2026 · Industry

Amazon MGM Studios Backs Out of Sam Altman Biopic Months After Amazon Gave OpenAI Tons of Money

Amazon Remembered It Was Also Selling Sam Altman's House While He Was Still Living In It Amazon MGM Studios has quietly shelved a biopic about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, which is exactly the kind of deci...
June 9, 2026 · Product Launch

OpenAI Announces Unnerving New ChatGPT Feature Named ‘Lockdown Mode’

OpenAI Launches "Lockdown Mode" Because Apparently Your Prompts Need a Bouncer OpenAI has decided that ChatGPT needs its own version of martial law, announcing a new "Lockdown Mode" feature that soun...
June 5, 2026 · Policy & Ethics

OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons

AI Labs Suddenly Discover That Teaching Computers to Engineer Pandemics Might Have Been an Oversight The leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic have penned a heartfelt letter to Congress asking lawmakers to...
May 17, 2026 · Industry

Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shakeup

OpenAI Founder Gets Participation Trophy in Latest Executive Shuffle OpenAI announced Friday that cofounder Greg Brockman will officially take charge of products, marking the company's 47th reorganiz...
May 14, 2026 · Industry

Sam Altman says Elon Musk’s mind games were damaging OpenAI

Local Man Who Sent Car Into Space Accused of Being Difficult to Work With Sam Altman has finally done what Silicon Valley has wanted to do for years: put Elon Musk's workplace toxicity on the court r...
May 13, 2026 · Industry

Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’

Former OpenAI Chief Scientist Explains Why He Had to Destroy the Village to Save It Ilya Sutskever took the witness stand on Monday to defend his role in temporarily firing Sam Altman, offering the k...
May 9, 2026 · Industry

Musk vs. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI

Microsoft Emails Reveal Company's 2018 Strategy: "Keep Your AI Enemies Closer" In a delicious twist of corporate irony, newly surfaced internal emails show that Microsoft executives spent 2018 treati...
May 6, 2026 · Industry

OpenAI’s president does “all the things,” except answer a question

OpenAI President Discovers Revolutionary New Form of Testimony: Professional Amnesia Greg Brockman took the stand this week and delivered a masterclass in advanced evasion techniques, proving that Op...
May 4, 2026 · Industry

OpenAI’s CFO Reportedly Wants to Delay the IPO from 2026 to 2027

OpenAI's CFO Reportedly Discovers Math, Suggests Maybe Burning Money Isn't a Business Model In a shocking development that has rocked Silicon Valley to its core, OpenAI's chief financial officer has...
May 3, 2026 · Industry

Pentagon strikes classified AI deals with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia — but not Anthropic

Pentagon Builds AI Dream Team, Forgets to Invite the One Company That Actually Cares About Safety The Department of Defense announced Friday that it has officially welcomed OpenAI, Google, Microsoft,...
May 2, 2026 · Industry

Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI's Models to Train Its Own

Elon Musk Accidentally Confesses to AI Training's Dirty Little Secret While Under Oath In a stunning display of courtroom honesty that probably made his lawyers consider early retirement, Elon Musk c...
April 24, 2026 · Industry

Join Our Livestream: Musk v. Altman and the Future of OpenAI

Billionaire Cage Match: Legal Edition Promises to Settle Who Gets to Own the Robot Apocalypse Two of Silicon Valley's most publicity hungry titans are about to duke it out in court, and somehow the f...
April 16, 2026 · Industry

Daniel Moreno-Gama is facing federal charges for attacking Sam Altman’s home and OpenAI’s HQ

Texas Man Discovers Most Expensive Way to Express Disapproval of ChatGPT's Hallucinations A 26 year old from Texas has taken the phrase "your product feedback is important to us" to its logical extre...
April 11, 2026 · Industry

The AI industry’s race for profits is now existential

AI Companies Discover Money Doesn't Grow on GPU Trees The artificial intelligence industry has finally stumbled upon a shocking revelation that would make even the most junior MBA student proud: at s...
April 5, 2026 · Industry

OpenAI's Fidji Simo Is Taking Medical Leave Amid an Executive Shake-Up

OpenAI Executive Takes Medical Leave, Company Insists Everything Is Totally Fine OpenAI announced Friday that Fidji Simo, their CEO of applications (a title that definitely existed before this week),...
March 29, 2026 · Industry

Why OpenAI killed Sora

OpenAI Discovers Video Generation Costs More Than Disney's Annual Catering Budget OpenAI announced Tuesday that it's officially pulling the plug on Sora, its much hyped video generation tool, after a...