OpenAI News & Updates
Last updated September 19, 2026
OpenAI is hiring an investment banking expert to train ChatGPT on M&A, valuation, and deal execution, offering up to $205K
OpenAI chief futurist Joshua Achiam is departing after nearly nine years, adding to a run of safety-leader exits before its IPO
OpenAI moves to expand its advertising pilot to France, Germany, Ireland and Singapore, bringing the program to 10 markets
Meta charges developers for AI access for the first time with Muse Spark 1.1, priced around 25% of OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic’s combined IPO valuation could top $4 trillion, more than every US VC-backed exit since 2000
Sam Altman says OpenAI made ‘many changes’ during government talks before releasing GPT-5.6, and disputes 5%-stake reports
OpenAI Deployment Company will buy applied-AI firm Northslope, its second deal to embed more engineers with enterprise clients
Bank of America extends its first loan to OpenAI, a $520M credit line, ahead of the AI company’s planned $1 trillion IPO
OpenAI appoints former Apple iPad marketing lead Mili Kapoor, previously at Meta and Nestlé, as its consumer marketing lead
Microsoft starts replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own MAI models in Excel and Outlook to cut rising AI costs
OpenAI wins Trump administration approval to broadly launch its GPT-5.6 models Thursday after weeks of restricted access
OpenAI adds custom-audience targeting and AI ad generation to ChatGPT Ads that advertisers spotted before any announcement
Square launches a ChatGPT app and Claude plugin that take AI-agent orders from restaurants
OpenAI proposes giving the U.S. government a 5% equity stake
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Meta secretly used contractors posing as minors to probe rival chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with high-risk prompts
Startups worldwide raised a record $510B in the first six months of 2026 as OpenAI and Anthropic alone took 43% of it
OpenAI proposes giving the U.S. government a 5% equity stake ahead of its IPO and suggests other American AI firms do the same
OpenAI renames ChatGPT’s Sponsored ad label to a more prominent Ad tag as it adds directions and local-intent ads to results
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