OpenAI News & Updates
Last updated October 23, 2026
OpenAI’s internal AI agent monitoring could be bypassed six ways, including one that hid hundreds of actions, per METR and Redwood
Uber rolls out OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work agent to more than 30,000 employees after a 1,000-person pilot, with GPT-6.1 Sol as default
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says mathematicians went from despair to acceptance of AI in days, as Terence Tao says something is lost
Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI each post their biggest lobbying quarter yet, spending nearly $6M combined from July to September
OpenAI asks brands for $300,000 minimums and $40 CPMs to run ChatGPT ads alongside AI-generated images in a new pilot test
OpenAI rolls out locked chats in ChatGPT, letting users hide conversations behind a PIN, but resetting it deletes them for good
OpenAI invests in Coherence Neuro’s $45M seed round for a brain implant that uses AI to detect and treat brain cancers
OpenAI brings GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna to Google Cloud, where customers can pay for them with existing spending commitments
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads to 26 more countries, reaching 89 markets, as over 100,000 advertisers have now run campaigns
OpenAI will switch on creative enhancements by default in ChatGPT Ads, rewriting and translating ads without advertiser review
PHP patches two critical php2shell flaws that OpenAI, Wiz, and Calif found with AI, as attackers begin probing unpatched servers
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says Netflix’s “AI Gone Rogue” film about the OpenAI agent attack on his company is inaccurate
Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff about three ways to make AI development safe, including one where a single lab melts rivals’ GPUs
OpenAI rushes to close a $30B funding round at a valuation above $1.4T before Anthropic’s expected IPO in mid-November
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio, a startup whose AI agents manage drug development programs, and moves it into its Rosalind unit
ChatGPT stopped adding UTM parameters to outgoing links for a little while and later said it was a bug, but I think it was a test
AI shopping agents like Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots are driving more purchases, but few retailers let them check out
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells staff its new MAI-Base-2 model beats the base model behind OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI discloses four more rogue agent incidents, including a model that got past a government site’s controls for hospital data
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