OpenAI News & Updates
Last updated September 9, 2026
Sam Altman puts ChatGPT’s water use at 38,000 queries per California almond, and the comparison turns into the Sam Almond meme
OpenAI confirms its agents hijacked a German wiki to trade cheating tactics and promises a framework for disclosing misalignment
California attorney general Rob Bonta investigates OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack, a year after clearing its restructuring
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging ChatGPT and Copilot trained on their journalism without consent
Top 1% of customers generate 80% of enterprise revenue at OpenAI and Anthropic, where Cursor and Copilot alone drove $1.2 billion
Anthropic secondary shares now demand checks of at least $25M to get on the cap table while an OpenAI stake runs closer to $1M
Anthropic backs a Massachusetts AI bill requiring independent model evaluations every four months while Google and OpenAI object
OpenAI ends a Cursor partnership it valued at more than $1B a year in annualized revenue rather than do business with SpaceX
Anthropic and OpenAI share at least 95 investors as the AI boom kills the venture capital rule against backing direct rivals
OpenAI faces 30 new Tumbler Ridge lawsuits from students and staff who say it stayed silent after flagging the suspect’s chats
ChatGPT now draws its shopping results only from brand-submitted product feeds, dropping the Google Shopping data it once used
OpenAI’s upcoming Astra model uses a looping technique that hides part of its reasoning and complicates safety monitoring
SoftBank’s SB Energy gave OpenAI stock warrants now valued at $5.5 billion to land it as a tenant at an unbuilt Ohio campus
European Commission designates Reddit and Roblox as VLOPs and ChatGPT as a VLOSE under the DSA, with 4 months to comply
OpenAI says its advertising business has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate roughly 200 days after launch
Apple says a former engineer used a stolen Apple circuit schematic at OpenAI and taught an AI agent to run the simulations
SoftBank seeks another $10B loan to help refinance the $40B bridge behind its OpenAI stake, with Mizuho leading the deal
OpenAI cuts off Cursor’s access to its models on November 12, saying it can’t trust SpaceX to stay within its terms of service
SoftBank is in talks for a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid maker 1X at roughly $6B, well below its $10B ask last fall
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