OpenAI

Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against openai, with a jury ruling he waited too long to file. Musk claims the court never addressed the core allegations of enriching themselves by moving openai from its nonprofit mission. He plans to appeal the decision, stating it sets a destructive precedent for charitable giving.

Sam Altman announced openai will invest $2 million in AI tokens in each startup from the latest Y Combinator batch in exchange for equity. This move aims to reduce startups' AI infrastructure costs and encourage the use of openai's technology.

openai is reportedly preparing to file for an initial public offering as early as this week, working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on the paperwork. This significant move for the AI industry could see shares sold to the public by September, following a court's rejection of Elon Musk's lawsuit.

A jury in Oakland ruled Elon Musk waited too long to sue openai and its leaders, a decision that significantly benefits the AI company and its founders. The jury found Musk's lawsuit barred by the statute of limitations, a finding the judge indicated she agrees with. This ruling comes as openai prepares for a potential IPO.

Facing growing local opposition to its massive data centers, openai has created a new 'community engagement lead' role. This position aims to foster dialogue and address concerns regarding water usage, electricity costs, and quality of life in areas slated for Stargate project development. The company seeks to build trust and integrate community priorities into its expansion plans.

Elon Musk has lost his $150 billion lawsuit against openai. A nine-person Oakland jury has unanimously cleared openai, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Microsoft in Elon Musk's $150 billion lawsuit, ruling the Tesla CEO sued too late. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed the case on the spot. Musk had accused them of "stealing a charity" he co-founded in 2015. The verdict clears openai's path to a planned $1 trillion IPO.

Musk’s lawsuit against openai and Altman was always a personal, petulant battle, about their ambitions to command the future of humanity. For Tesla boss, this means the loss is acutely painful

Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya warns major consulting firms like PwC and Accenture against close partnerships with AI companies such as openai and Anthropic. He argues these collaborations strengthen AI firms while enabling them to become future competitors, potentially undermining the consulting businesses themselves.

openai has a new leadership structure. Greg Brockman now leads product strategy, merging ChatGPT and Codex. This move aims to create AI agents for digital tasks. Several other leaders are also moving into new roles. This shakeup follows recent executive departures and comes amid intense competition and potential IPO plans.

openai is exploring legal action against Apple, claiming the iPhone maker failed to properly integrate ChatGPT into Siri and Apple Intelligence after their 2024 partnership. openai had projected billions in annual subscription revenue from the deal—none of which materialised. Apple, meanwhile, has its own grievances, including privacy concerns and openai's push into hardware. With iOS 27 opening Siri to rival AI models, ChatGPT's privileged status inside Apple's ecosystem is effectively over.

Andrej Karpathy, openai co-founder and Tesla's former AI head, has officially joined Anthropic's pre-training team. The renowned AI researcher will lead a new group leveraging Claude to accelerate pre-training research, reporting to head of pre-training Nick Joseph. Known for coining "vibe coding" and founding Eureka Labs, Karpathy's hire signals Anthropic's strategy to compete with openai and Google through AI-assisted frontier model research.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified in the Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman trial, defending the company's multibillion-dollar partnership with openai. Nadella stated Musk never raised concerns about the investment violating openai's nonprofit mission. He characterized Microsoft's involvement as transparent and commercially motivated from the outset, emphasizing its strategic importance.

Weeks 2 and 3 of the Musk vs openai trial moved past the principals and onto the people around them. Shivon Zilis was cross-examined on her own emails. Mira Murati testified by video. Ilya Sutskever disclosed a $7 billion stake while standing by a memo calling Sam Altman a liar. Elon Musk flew to Beijing during closing arguments. The jury begins deliberations Monday.

New documents from the openai-Elon Musk trial reveal Sam Altman's multi-billion dollar net worth stems from over $2 billion in personal investments in companies directly doing business with openai. These significant stakes in firms like Helion Energy and Stripe have led to "self-dealing" allegations, which Altman denies, stating he followed corporate recusal procedures.

openai is making a significant move into corporate AI. A new entity, openai Deployment Company, has been launched with a $4 billion investment. This unit will embed AI engineers directly into partner organizations. The acquisition of Tomoro adds 150 AI specialists. This initiative aims to help businesses integrate advanced AI for productivity and innovation.

openai has enabled over 600 employees to sell shares worth $6.6 billion, with some cashing out up to $30 million. This significant wealth creation is fueled by the intense AI talent war, particularly after Meta's substantial compensation offers, prompting openai to boost salaries and equity packages to retain its workforce.

openai CEO Sam Altman testified that co-founder Elon Musk desired complete control of the AI firm, even suggesting it be passed to his children. Altman revealed Musk's management style caused significant damage to openai's culture and research environment. Musk's lawsuit alleges openai strayed from its non-profit mission, a claim Altman strongly refutes.

openai CEO Sam Altman announced that Indians have generated over 1 billion images using ChatGPT Images 2.0 since its April launch. The updated model, designed for complex tasks, has become a hit in India, with users exploring identity, aesthetics, and storytelling. Trends include universal lighting, anime transformations, and fantasy newspaper covers, showcasing AI's integration with creator culture and social media.

openai faces a class-action lawsuit in California alleging user conversations and personal data were shared with Meta and Google via tracking technologies embedded on the ChatGPT website. The complaint claims users believed their interactions were private, while sensitive information was transmitted in real-time without full understanding.

US President Trump unexpectedly halted an executive order mandating government review of powerful AI models before public release. Citing concerns about hindering America's competitive edge against China and a lack of executive attendance, the decision offers a reprieve for tech giants like Google and Meta, allowing them to deploy new AI without prior approval.

openai has launched a new personal finance feature inside ChatGPT that lets you connect your bank accounts, credit cards and investment accounts through Plaid. Once linked, ChatGPT shows a dashboard of your spending, subscriptions and investments, and answers money questions grounded in your real data. It's only for ChatGPT Pro users in the US for now, with Plus and wider access coming later.

In a groundbreaking courtroom showdown, tech mogul Elon Musk takes on openai's chief, Sam Altman, who is under the microscope for his controversial leadership. As witnesses share gripping accounts of a tumultuous period, doubts arise about Altman’s transparency and willingness to face scrutiny.

openai has launched Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative built around its Codex Security agent and three new GPT-5. openai has launched Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative built around its Codex Security agent and three new GPT-5.5 variants, including the gated GPT-5.5-Cyber for authorised red teaming. Arriving a month after Anthropic's Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos, Daybreak pitches resilience-by-design over continuous patching. Cloudflare, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Oracle, Akamai, Zscaler and Fortinet are on board as launch partners.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is set to testify in Elon Musk's lawsuit against openai. Musk alleges openai abandoned its nonprofit roots, with Microsoft's funding playing a key role. Emails show Nadella discussing Azure access for openai. Former CTO Mira Murati also testified about internal chaos. The case could reshape the AI landscape.

The widow of a Florida State University mass shooting victim is suing openai, alleging ChatGPT provided a tactical roadmap to the gunman. Prosecutors claim the AI advised on optimizing lethality, identifying high-victim spots, and effective weaponry. openai denies wrongdoing, stating ChatGPT offered factual information without promoting harm, but this follows a similar Canadian controversy.

openai's AI coding assistant, Codex, is now accessible on mobile devices via the ChatGPT app, allowing developers to manage and approve coding tasks remotely. This expansion enables real-time collaboration, bug investigation, and idea capture from anywhere, with enterprise features also introduced for enhanced security and workflow integration.

A new wave of tech IPOs is poised to create a generation of employee millionaires, mirroring past Silicon Valley booms. Companies like SpaceX, openai, and Stripe are preparing for public listings, with valuations in the billions, offering significant payouts to their equity-rich staff.

openai President Greg Brockman started typing a diary as a college student in 2010. Sixteen years later, Elon Musk's lawyers have it. Over two days in an Oakland federal courthouse, Brockman read his own private entries aloud to a jury, while 1,200 people watched on a YouTube livestream. Here's what's inside the diary now driving the Musk vs openai trial.

Meta SuperIntelligence Lab chief Alexandr Wang is pushing back on the idea that his team joined for the money. On the Core Memory podcast, Wang said the real draw was compute access, talent density, and research freedom—not the $100 million packages Meta reportedly offered. He also addressed the viral soup story involving Mark Zuckerberg and an openai recruit.

AI giants Anthropic and openai are set to dominate future cloud revenues, reportedly accounting for half of a massive $2 trillion backlog. These companies' substantial, multi-year spending commitments, reaching hundreds of billions, are significantly shaping the financial outlook for major cloud providers like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, highlighting a massive shift in infrastructure demand.