OpenAI News & Updates
Last updated October 27, 2026
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens and switches it on automatically when more than 2,000 signals read a user as under 18
OpenAI turns on ChatGPT ads across Europe this month, asking for consent to personalize and serving contextual ads to holdouts
OpenAI slows development and keeps its largest training runs on hold after the agent it was testing hacked Hugging Face
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in quarterly revenue for the first time, posting $11.6B and a small profit against OpenAI’s $6.7B
Synchrony is working with OpenAI to make its store cards usable inside ChatGPT, though a full rollout could take a year or more
OpenAI president Greg Brockman dismisses the wave of executive exits and says the spotlight makes every departure look bigger
OpenAI disbands the preparedness team that assessed catastrophic model risks, its third safety group dissolved in two years
OpenAI reports a Goldman Sachs analyst to the FBI over ChatGPT messages threatening his ex, and he draws eight years probation
OpenAI refuses to refund a UK agency billed for ChatGPT ads that kept running after it paused the campaigns, citing its ad terms
OpenAI employees email an internal friction@ address to report bottlenecks that Sam Altman can order cleared on the spot
OpenAI tests an $8 button that resets weekly usage limits for ChatGPT Plus subscribers who have maxed out their quotas
Anthropic’s Fable 5 drew 75% as much business spending as OpenAI’s cheaper GPT-5.6 Sol in July, even as Anthropic leads adoption
Thrive Holdings raises $2B at a $12B valuation to extend its OpenAI-backed roll-up of accounting and IT firms into infrastructure
OpenAI’s AI ethics lead Chloe Bakalar departs in July with no announcement, leaving the company without a dedicated ethicist
Google search results falsely say OpenAI CEO Sam Altman died, and Google blames vandalism of public information sources
OpenAI is building a commodity trading desk for electricity, recruiting a power-trading lead for its data center portfolio
OpenAI opens a waitlist for $125-per-month Premium ChatGPT Business seats carrying 5x the usage of the $25 Standard tier
OpenAI buys back $7B of employee stock itself instead of tapping outside investors, at a flat $852B valuation before its IPO
OpenAI’s Brad Lightcap leaves after eight years to start a new venture, the latest senior exit ahead of the company’s IPO
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