OpenAI has confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Ashley Capoot and Kate Rooney report for CNBC that the company, valued at $852 billion, is targeting a public debut as early as the fourth quarter of this year. The filing comes one week after rival Anthropic made …
OpenAI is planning a major overhaul of ChatGPT, transforming the chatbot into a so-called “superapp” that bundles coding tools, AI agents, and partner services into a single platform. Bipasha Dey reports for Reuters, citing a Financial Times story based on more than a dozen current and former OpenAI employees. The redesign will give greater prominence …
OpenAI is rolling out a significantly improved memory system for ChatGPT, designed to give the AI a more accurate and up-to-date understanding of individual users over time. OpenAI writes in their post that the update, built on a technology called “dreaming,” is now available to Plus and Pro users in the United States, with a …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman toured the company’s Stargate data center in Saline, Michigan, and spoke about surging demand for AI compute, the future of work, and the risks of a global AI race. David Faber reports for CNBC in an exclusive interview conducted at the site. A $45 billion bet on AI demand The Stargate …
OpenAI’s AI agent Codex has grown far beyond its origins as a tool for software developers. According to two new publications from OpenAI, the system now counts more than 5 million weekly active users and is increasingly used by professionals across industries to handle the routine, time-consuming work of modern office life. OpenAI writes and …
OpenAI and Anthropic appear to have crossed a critical threshold: their AI coding agents are generating substantial revenue, and both companies have quietly restructured their pricing to capture it. Simon Willison writes for his weblog that the two leading AI labs have found product-market fit, driven by a shift toward enterprise customers paying full API …
Google and OpenAI are expanding their tools to help users identify AI-generated media. The companies are combining their technologies to make digital content verification more reliable across the internet. Google is integrating its digital watermarking technology, SynthID, with the industry-standard C2PA Content Credentials. The company is rolling out these verification features across Google Search, Chrome, …
Malta has become the first country to offer all its citizens and residents free access to ChatGPT Plus through a partnership with OpenAI. The deal, announced by OpenAI and the Maltese government, gives residents one year of free ChatGPT Plus after completing an AI literacy course. The course was developed by the University of Malta. …
A California jury has rejected all of Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft, and other defendants after a three-week trial in Oakland. The jury reached its unanimous verdict in under two hours. The case centered on Musk’s claim that Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman had “stolen a charity” by transforming OpenAI …
OpenAI has launched a self-serve advertising platform called Ads Manager, opening ChatGPT to a much wider range of advertisers. Axios reports that the tool is now rolling out in beta to U.S. advertisers after months of internal testing. Asad Awan, OpenAI’s head of monetization, says businesses can now create and manage ad campaigns directly through …