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Sam Altman fires back at Anthropic's Super Bowl ads: 'deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren't real'
4 Feb 2026
OpenAI closes $6.5B all-stock acquisition of Jony Ive's hardware startup IO
9 Jul 2025
OpenAI's new nonprofit foundation to spend $1B in 2026, appoints co-founders to leadership
24 Mar 2026
OpenAI exploring social network to rival X — hosts say it's a distraction and Google+ proves the risk
15 Apr 2025
Gemini vs. OpenAI: will Google bleed out the competition or face its own innovator's dilemma?
4 Dec 2025
Elon vs. OpenAI: Leaked Brockman documents and the case for both sides
16 Jan 2026
OpenAI announces ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers, with strict editorial firewall
16 Jan 2026
X Timeline Reactions: Musk vs. OpenAI prediction markets swing wildly, California wealth exodus, and the future of the web
16 Jan 2026
Elon Musk seeks $134B in damages from OpenAI as lawsuit escalates
19 Jan 2026
AI needs a Steve Jobs: the industry's messaging crisis and why the techlash is winning
9 Jan 2026
OpenAI has declared 'code red' multiple times, most recently in response to Google Gemini benchmark gains
19 Dec 2025
ChatGPT Images 1.5 launches with 4x speed improvement and new in-app discovery surface
16 Dec 2025
GPT-5.2 launches with major benchmark gains; Oracle delays OpenAI data centers to 2028
12 Dec 2025
Disney invests $1B in OpenAI and licenses 200 characters to Sora — exclusively for year one
11 Dec 2025
Trump's White House tech dinner: Apple and Meta each pledge $600B in US AI investment
5 Sept 2025
OpenAI signs $10B chip deal with Broadcom to mass-produce custom AI inference chips on TSMC 3nm
5 Sept 2025
Microsoft and OpenAI restructure their partnership: extended IP rights, $250B Azure commitment, and AGI verification panel
28 Oct 2025
Stargate reality check: only the first $100B is real, Microsoft is the biggest loser
24 Jan 2025
Nvidia-OpenAI $100B investment talks stall as Jensen publicly walks back the commitment
2 Feb 2026
OpenAI adds $1B in API ARR in a single month as Sam Altman eyes $50B raise at up to $830B valuation
22 Jan 2026
Sam Altman warns of economic headwinds from resurging Google — is OpenAI priced to perfection?
21 Nov 2025
OpenAI's Fidji Simo: managing the company remotely from LA while betting on AI as personal shopper and travel agent
18 Nov 2025
OpenAI CFO acknowledges ChatGPT growth slowdown tied to content restrictions
13 Nov 2025
Ben Thompson's OpenAI critique: AI safety culture cost America the race
29 Jan 2025
OpenAI's lobbying for government-backed data center loans contradicts Sam Altman's public denial
7 Nov 2025
Breaking down the AI leadership landscape: who really believes in AGI and who needs it most
7 Nov 2025
OpenAI CFO floats federal 'backstop' for AI infrastructure, sparking immediate controversy
6 Nov 2025
Sam Altman's '$1.4T spending, sell your shares' answer triggers widespread skepticism
3 Nov 2025
Ilya Sutskever's deposition reveals OpenAI coup was 'rushed' and almost led to Anthropic merger
3 Nov 2025
OpenAI's chip partnership blitz: NVIDIA cosigns loans, AMD deal announced as Sam Altman plays the supply chain
21 Oct 2025
Meta poaches entire OpenAI Zurich office — three top multimodal researchers join Meta's Superintelligence Project
26 Jun 2025
Meta poaches top OpenAI researchers as Zuckerberg assembles 'Superintelligence' team
30 Jun 2025
Sam Altman's OpenAI vision: trillion-dollar compute deals, affiliate revenue, and the path to financial self-sufficiency
8 Oct 2025
OpenAI's 800M users and $13B ARR: what the numbers really say about monetization
16 Oct 2025
Foxconn shares jump 8% after chairman discloses meeting with Sam Altman
16 Oct 2025
Eric Seufert: OpenAI running ads is inevitable — and it will be the most important new ads platform in a decade
16 Oct 2025
OpenAI's $1T web: the company is becoming a hyperscaler with deals spanning every major tech player
7 Oct 2025
OpenAI and Sam Altman back Merge Labs, a Neuralink rival, at $850M valuation
14 Aug 2025
OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter per Microsoft filing; hosts parse capex vs. true losses
31 Oct 2025
Inside Thrive Capital's rise: Josh Kushner's concentrated bets on Spotify, Instagram, and OpenAI
14 Oct 2025
Sam Altman says OpenAI's $6.5B IO acquisition could add $1 trillion in value
23 May 2025
OpenAI plans $2K–$20K/month agent tiers as Sam Altman pitches investors on massive ARR expansion
5 Mar 2025
Judge signals she may block OpenAI's nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion in Musk lawsuit
5 Mar 2025
OpenAI signs multibillion-dollar AMD chip deal worth up to ~$300B with 10% equity warrants
6 Oct 2025
OpenAI's $6.6B secondary share sale closes below the $10.3B authorized — insiders say it's a confidence signal
2 Oct 2025
Meanwhile raises $82M to build the world's first Bitcoin-denominated life insurance company
9 Oct 2025
WSJ deep dive: how Altman and Musk went from co-founders to bitter rivals
18 Feb 2025
ChatGPT Pulse launches same day as Vibes — and the reception couldn't be more different
26 Sept 2025
Nvidia invests $100B in OpenAI in circular deal critics are calling the 'Lucent moment' of AI
23 Sept 2025
Pippa Lamb on the UK-US state visit: $30B Microsoft and Nvidia commitments, Revolut IPO watch, and UK as AI superpower
19 Sept 2025
Elon Musk's $97.4B unsolicited bid for OpenAI's nonprofit complicates for-profit conversion
10 Feb 2025
Sam Altman's World eyeball-scanner app aims to be an everything app rivaling Elon's X
10 Mar 2025
OpenAI signs $300B cloud computing deal with Oracle, triggering 36% stock surge
11 Sept 2025
OpenAI's 'Code Red' Slack memo: Sam Altman's internal alarm and what it means for the AI race
2 Dec 2025
Masayoshi Son's epic rise: from pig farming and pachinko to the world's biggest tech empire
31 Jan 2025
Court filing reveals Elon Musk asked Zuckerberg to join xAI's bid to acquire OpenAI at 80% discount
22 Aug 2025
John Schulman joins Mira Murati's startup after short stint at Anthropic, as OpenAI alumni scatter
7 Feb 2025
Elon's $97B OpenAI bid forces legal reckoning over nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion
11 Feb 2025
GPT-5's rocky rollout: OpenAI reverses 'warmth' changes, API traffic doubles, Sam Altman says we're in an AI bubble
15 Aug 2025
Meta in advanced talks to hire Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross for billions, partially buying out their VC fund
19 Jun 2025
SoftBank is preparing to put $43B into OpenAI across Stargate and a direct equity round
4 Feb 2025
OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's IO: a $6.5B all-stock bet on post-iPhone hardware
22 May 2025
Keith Rabois on founder mode, Airbnb's pivot, AI consolidation, and why micropayments will never work
22 May 2025
GPT-5 is facing a 'reverse DeepSeek moment' — botched launch creating false impression of stalled AI progress
19 Aug 2025
Elizabeth Warren sends Sam Altman a sternly worded letter over Trump inaugural fund donations
17 Jan 2025
OpenAI releases first open-source model in years — GPT-O OSS matches o3 performance and runs on consumer hardware
5 Aug 2025
Sam Altman on Theo Von: ChatGPT privacy gap, UBI vs. universal basic wealth, and AI governance
25 Jul 2025
Casey Caruso on Topology Ventures: $75M fund backed by Marc Andreessen, betting on neurotech and technical founders
10 Sept 2025
OpenAI forced to scrub all Jony Ive 'io' branding after trademark lawsuit from rival startup
23 Jun 2025
Masayoshi Son levers up $18.5B to back Stargate and invest $40B in OpenAI
30 Jan 2025
OpenAI plans Chrome competitor browser as Perplexity's Comet and The Browser Company's Dia heat up browser wars
10 Jul 2025
Inside Sam Altman's firing: board dysfunction, Mira Murati's double role, and Ilya's pivotal evidence
1 Apr 2025
OpenAI abandons for-profit conversion, will remain under nonprofit control
6 May 2025
OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that browses the web and takes actions on your behalf
23 Jan 2025
Stargate drama: Sam Altman fires back at Musk as Satya Nadella trolls both with the crying emoji
23 Jan 2025
OpenAI acquires TBPN in deal that preserves editorial independence
2 Apr 2026