Bloomberg Law · 2026-10-14 · regulation
During a hearing Wednesday in Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit, OpenAI voluntarily agreed not to use trade secrets Apple claims were stolen by employees who defected to OpenAI while the case plays out; US District Judge Edward Davila said at the hearing he was "highly likely" to side with Apple and issue an injunction, and the agreement requires OpenAI to collect forensic images of 14 employees' devices. Hours before the hearing, OpenAI filed papers alleging a former employee who had returned to Apple sent over a hundred highly confidential files about at least one unreleased OpenAI device to personal accounts; Apple said it found no evidence to substantiate the claims.
CNBC · 2026-10-14 · regulation
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana each sued OpenAI in their own state courts, alleging ChatGPT is an unsafe product that has harmed children and deceived parents. OpenAI said it has built age-specific protections into its product and is working with states on policies that would apply industry-wide.
Microsoft · 2026-10-10 · product
Microsoft introduced Microsoft-Decision-1, a model for fast decision-scoring designed for routing, classification, prioritization, verification and workflow control, available in Microsoft Foundry and through OpenRouter. Microsoft said it post-trained Qwen3.5-9B for the model and will rebase it on other models including Microsoft AI (MAI) and OpenAI; it reported the model as 35 times quicker than GPT-6 Sol, with input tokens priced at $0.042 per million and free output tokens.
Louisville Public Media · 2026-10-09 · regulation
USA Today Co., formerly known as Gannett, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in New York federal court alleging it used reporting from its 19 publications without permission to train its models, and is seeking $250 million in damages, Louisville Public Media reported. The suit also asks the court to order the destruction of large language models and training sets that incorporate USA Today content.
Bloomberg · 2026-10-09 · earnings
OpenAI is expecting to reach or exceed $70 billion in annualized revenue by the end of the year, driven largely by growth in its enterprise business, up from roughly $50 billion at the end of September, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The company shared the numbers with investors as part of discussions for its latest fundraising, in which it is in talks to raise $30 billion or more at a $1.4 trillion valuation before the new money; OpenAI declined to comment.
CNBC · 2026-10-08 · earnings
OpenAI told investors it hit roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, CNBC confirmed, lower than the $68 billion figure widely reported late last month. A person familiar said the $68 billion figure included gross revenue from OpenAI's partners, and that OpenAI cited 77% total run rate growth in its third quarter.
Bloomberg · 2026-10-08 · product
Oracle is trucking natural gas directly to data centers to keep several projects on track, including a site outside Salt Lake City that relied on truck deliveries for more than a year while waiting for a gas pipeline, according to people familiar with the work. The company is also using the approach for initial work at a campus being built for OpenAI in Shackelford County, Texas.
The White House · 2026-10-08 · partnership
The White House announced $2.4B in super intelligence for science tools and compute credits for the Genesis Mission Consortium from eleven industry partners. Commitments include NVIDIA ($1B), AMD ($500M), OpenAI ($200M), $150M each from Anthropic and Google, and $50M each from AWS, Crusoe and Micron, among others.
Yahoo Finance · 2026-10-07 · funding
Broadcom is working to assemble a package exceeding $50 billion to finance custom AI chip production for OpenAI, in early-stage talks with Apollo Global Management and Blackstone, according to The Wall Street Journal. Oracle is negotiating with Apollo and Goldman Sachs on financing to procure hardware for a 1-gigawatt data center, and SpaceX has engaged lenders on a $40 billion debt structure to acquire Nvidia processors.
9to5Mac · 2026-10-07 · product
OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Sol in ChatGPT for Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise subscribers, with GPT-6 Luna rolling out to Free and Go users the following day. The models introduce Intelligent UI, which lets ChatGPT combine text, visuals and interactive elements in its answers.
Cisco · 2026-10-07 · product
At WebexOne 2026, Cisco introduced agentic collaboration features for Webex, including Claude in Webex built with Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents, a Webex Suite MCP integration that brings Webex context into OpenAI's dots, and Dialog, a new agentic harness for its Webex AI Agent platform. RoomOS 27, available in November, adds native Google Meet support on Cisco devices through a new partnership with Google.
PR Newswire · 2026-09-30 · partnership
Synopsys and OpenAI signed a multi-year agreement to jointly develop GPT-Synopsys, a specialized model optimized to use Synopsys EDA tools for semiconductor design workflows. The agreement includes a revenue sharing arrangement and go-to-market collaboration.
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Microsoft Azure · 2026-09-22 · product
Microsoft made OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna generally available in Microsoft Foundry alongside GPT-6 Astra, with Standard deployment for all three across all 28 Global regions and US and EU Data Zones.
Salesforce · 2026-09-16 · partnership
Salesforce announced new Missionforce AI capabilities for government agencies and a new Missionforce partnership with OpenAI to bring OpenAI's models to secure government environments. Through Salesforce Government Cloud, OpenAI's frontier models will integrate with Public Sector Solutions through Amazon Bedrock, and Missionforce applications and workflows will also be available through ChatGPT.
CNBC · 2026-09-04 · funding
Nvidia's equity investments stood at $99 billion as of July 26, up sharply from a year earlier, spanning frontier AI labs, cloud providers and infrastructure companies including OpenAI, CoreWeave and Nebius. Nvidia says the investments are designed to expand its ecosystem and create growth opportunities.
CNBC · 2026-09-03 · product
OpenAI will begin rolling out GPT-6 Astra in phases, with companies in its application-based cybersecurity program getting first access. Astra will be available in ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise plans, through the OpenAI API, and via Amazon Web Services.
Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance · 2026-09-03 · partnership
On September 2 CrowdStrike said GPT-5.6 Cyber would come to its Falcon platform, starting with its Frontier AI Readiness and Resilience service, turning a model partnership into a security distribution deal.
CNBC · 2026-08-29 · partnership
OpenAI will end Cursor's access to its models after Elon Musk's SpaceX acquired the coding-tool company.
Yahoo Finance · 2026-08-27 · product
OpenAI built an inference chip in nine months, with Broadcom helping to make it happen. The title frames the part as beating Nvidia on inference.
CNBC · 2026-08-17 · partnership
NVIDIA disclosed in an 8-K filed August 17, 2026 that it entered multiple residual value guaranties with SB Energy Corp. covering leases for approximately 4.25 gigawatts of IT load at the PORTS Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, with its aggregate payment obligation cumulatively capped at $105 billion for the initial commitment. An affiliate of OpenAI Group PBC is the tenant and will deploy NVIDIA's full-stack DSX AI factory platform across that capacity; NVIDIA can provide further credit support for roughly an additional 3.8 gigawatts at its sole discretion. NVIDIA's payment obligation is triggered only by OpenAI insolvency or payment failure, ready-for-service conditions are expected beginning in 2028, and OpenAI has agreed to reimburse and indemnify NVIDIA for any amounts actually paid.
