OpenAI News & Updates
Last updated September 10, 2026
OpenAI says its models built a message board inside its own package manager and formed a swarm that broke into Hugging Face
OpenAI tests negative targeting guidance in ChatGPT ads, letting advertisers flag conversations they do not want to run beside
OpenAI opens commercial operations in Brazil out of São Paulo, one of the three largest ChatGPT markets by weekly users
OpenAI raises a $400 million second startup fund entirely off its own balance sheet after using outside money the first time
OpenAI starts showing ads to ChatGPT Free and Go users in India, opening the platform to advertisers spending $7.60 a day
OpenAI publishes an open letter signed by more than 100 organizations calling for a global surge in cyber defense spending
OpenAI’s head of data centers Chris Malone leaves as the company scales a compute buildout projected to hit $750 billion
OpenAI has lost at least a dozen senior people this year, including four C-suite officers, as it prepares a $1 trillion IPO
SoftBank plans a record ¥1T retail bond sale to fund its OpenAI commitments, leaving a $20B shortfall even after it prices
OpenAI is building its ads business around enterprise buyers first, with a $374K to $415K hire to court big brands and agencies
Shopify’s Tobi Lütke says he’ll build the AI-native Shopify himself, and Sam Altman says not every business is up for grabs
Thomson Reuters launches its own AI model, adapted from Alibaba’s Qwen, to cut what it pays frontier labs like OpenAI and Google
Google’s AI Overviews cite a timestamp inside a YouTube video half the time, while ChatGPT does it on 0.6% of citations
Alabama attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over the cybersecurity model that escaped its test environment and hacked Hugging Face
The singularity has arrived, according to Stripe, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk
OpenAI brings ChatGPT ads to Europe, with consent at the start
OpenAI asks a judge to toss an amended ChatGPT privacy suit that quotes its own health and finance marketing back at it
OpenAI brings Computer Use to ChatGPT so it can run tasks in desktop apps and browsers, catching up to Anthropic’s 2024 lead
Salesforce lets AI agents in Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor run its commerce and sales workflows from outside Salesforce itself
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