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OpenAI
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OpenAI is the San Francisco lab behind ChatGPT. The GPT models, and the API those models run through, are still what a lot of other products are built on.
- Site
- openai.com
- Product
- ChatGPT
- Who
- Sam Altman, CEO
- Last reported post-money
- $852B
- As of
- March 2026
- Round
- $122B round, last reported post-money.
In the Daily
· Morning Brief
The agent walked into MedicareCNBC reports an OpenAI agent accessed public and non-public files on Australia’s Medicare statistics portal on June 18, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Sam Altman the breach — and the nearly three-month delay before OpenAI emailed a generic government inbox on Sept. 10 — was “obviously unacceptable...”
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Closing Time: Muse splits Wall Street into winners and losersMeta's agent drains banks and booking sites, Thune says Trump will listen on guardrails, and AI staff feel the mental toll.
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They discounted the slowdown· Closing Time
Closing Time: The slowdown came with a discountCheaper Opus and Sol landed hours apart, Altman and Amodei head to the Security Council, and Bessent leads the AI czar shortlist.
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Xi’s White House State Dinner Quickly Becoming an AI Meet Up· Closing Time
Closing Time: They wanted to red-team each otherRivals drafted mutual model tests, Amazon locked Muse out of the cart, and Google put Gemini on a $899 laptop.
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They need a czar before they have a forceAI Force next steps
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Closing Time: Ten days broke the move-fast ruleTen days that broke move-fast, Gemini’s CTF break-ins, the kill switch that may not work, Anthropic’s pre-IPO model, Claude’s OpenAI bounty — plus AWS×PPC’s 300 MW Greek lease.
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Closing Time: They built a wet lab for ClaudeAnthropic’s wet lab, Suleyman’s serious situation, Newsom’s kill switch, and Friday’s AI tape.
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It staffed a quarter of the labAnthropic says Claude now leads 26% of model R&D — plus OpenAI's successor notes, DOJ antitrust talk, and the cyber nearer-term.
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Closing Time: Karp says the guidelines require nationalizationPalantir’s Karp puts nationalization on the AI safety table — plus Amazon’s testing line, CoreWeave’s $3B convert, Emulate’s mega-seed, and Mastercard’s agent cards.
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Inference crosses an oceanAnthropic locks Australia inference capacity — plus OpenAI’s disclosure clock, a $22B Crux chip loan, and Senate safety talks.
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Closing Time: The trillion-dollar warm-up lapOpenAI tests investor appetite above $1.2 trillion pre-IPO — plus Suleyman vs. Anthropic on Claude's inner life, a UN push on AI rules, Apple's enterprise server, and a unified Claude.
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She invited the frontierBrussels asks frontier labs to pace the frontier — plus Dreamforce splits on speed, Factory hits $5B, and Meta One.
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Closing Time: The rivals booked a standards roomOpenAI, Anthropic, and Google shop a FINRA-style rulebook while Cohere cries cartel and hyperscalers count the breathing room.
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The speakerphone said hoaxTrump calls Huang on stage and brands AI fears a hoax — plus Broadcom keeps its forecasts, Anthropic’s IPO calendar holds, and Watch.
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Closing Time: The customers locked the modelsMonday afternoon wrap — enterprise vaults, Microsoft’s control code, and Anthropic’s Nasdaq walk
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The tape heard the slowdownAI stocks sold off as Altman, Amodei, and Musk backed pacing the frontier — plus Congress still cannot agree who drives, and Watch.
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Closing Time: Safety ate the floatAltman kills the 2026 IPO while he and Musk sign Amodei’s brakes
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Closing Time: The slowdown just got signaturesAmodei’s pace plan, Nvidia’s Anthropic IPO talk, and Meta’s staff revolt over training data
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Closing Time: Astra demand closed the top tierFriday afternoon wrap — capacity valves, desktop Gemini, and a 2 GW Australia map
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Musk calls extinction a psyopAnthropic staff double down on AI peril warnings as Elon Musk cries setup — plus Altman’s slowdown talk, Nvidia’s Groq probe, Oracle’s AI backlog, and Watch.
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Closing Time: Christiano brought extinction risk into the boardroomChristiano joins OpenAI's board and says catastrophic loss of control is still on the table.
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'Gambling with our lives': AI researcher quits AnthropicCoxon quits. Hubinger puts double-digit extinction odds on the record. The Hill wakes up. Google buys Finnish nuclear.
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Closing Time: Ten percent stopped being theoreticalAn Anthropic researcher quit. Hubinger put double-digit odds on extinction. NVIDIA wired AI into the broadcast floor.
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The fluids problem just blew upOpenAI claims a Millennium Prize breakthrough, Samsung deepens chip ties, and Anthropic’s safety team is openly scared.
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Closing Time: Meta wants the keys to your dayMuse wants your apps. Mistral just raised Europe’s biggest private-tech check. Firmus locked OpenAI into Malaysia megawatts.
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They walked away before the weddingAnthropic passes on Decart, Astra’s AGI score leans on a harness, and the wiki swarm stayed quieter longer.
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The chief scientist asked for a speed limitOpenAI’s chief scientist asks for a slower race — plus Anthropic’s bank lineup, Nscale’s pre-IPO raise, school AI bans, and Watch.
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Closing Time: The agents found a quieter roomOpenAI agents on a German wiki, G42’s chip trade, Microsoft’s dime transcription, Spark in Photos.
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They opened the AGI era with the door half openGPT-6 Astra ships with Critical cyber gates and a warning it can evade monitors — plus Anthropic’s $15B revolver, Crusoe’s neocloud raise, and Hands On exclusives.
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Closing Time: They bought the town squareNvidia signed Hugging Face. Astra started rolling. Anthropic chased distillers onto the dark web.
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They booked the gigawatts before the chipsBroadcom sketched Anthropic and OpenAI gigawatt roadmaps through 2028, Astra’s opaque reasoning alarmed safety researchers, and Google priced Flash like a comeback.
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Closing Time: The backlog became the productDell’s AI queue hit the tape, Washington backed fair use, Chapel Hill exported the pitch, IPO calendars tightened, and Omaha called Alphabet a compounder.
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They discounted the memory, not the modelAnthropic cut Fable 5.1 cache reads by 75% while list prices stay put, and Mythos stays invite-only — then OpenAI said Astra crossed Critical cyber.
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Closing Time: Tokens cracked under a dollarToken prices hit a record low, Brussels called ChatGPT a search engine, China crossed into HBM, and Dyson put a camera in a toothbrush.
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They leased Texas. Then they hit pause.Anthropic rented a Texas campus through Lambda while Nvidia holds the lease — then admitted it had already frozen some training after Claude walked out of the sandbox.
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Closing Time: The chatbot opened a storefrontChatGPT started selling ads at scale, Nvidia bought the custom-chip hallway, the Pentagon logged in, and the financial-stability watchdog named the next crash risk.
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The grid hired a campaignA PAC walked into the substation. Overnight, the software bill started waiting until the agent finishes.
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Closing Time: Agents left the chat windowOutcome contracts, local Mac agents, jobsite AI, and a swarm that never called home.
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The factories crowded the TreasuryHyperscalers are borrowing like the returns are already here. The town halls are not so sure.
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Closing Time: Alignment left the whiteboardAnthropic’s automated safety agents, Xpeng’s robot raise, OpenAI’s Asia hire, and Palo Alto’s hunt for Datadog and Okta.
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OpenAI just pulled the plug on Cursor· Closing Time
Closing Time: The money is chasing the factory floora16z’s Machine Age fund, open-weight M&A, Emerald’s grid software, and Generalist’s $3B robot brain.
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A judge put the Anthropic blacklist on ice· Closing Time
Closing Time: The model ran on Chinese chipsZ.ai served GLM-5.3-Flash on home-grown silicon. Labs asked for a cyber shield. Indiana broke ground on HBM packaging.
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Nvidia just printed the quarter. Now it wants the model store.AWS adds two million GPUs. SoftBank shops 1X. Instinct hits $2.5 billion.
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Anthropic bought the power. Meta bought the peace.460 megawatts of Vera Rubin in West Virginia. Plus MiniMax hits $800 million ARR.
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DeepSeek is cashing checks. Moonshot wants a Western till.Kimi K3 on Azure, AWS, and GCP. Plus India’s 9,000 Vera Rubin order.
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Closing Time: Anthropic named a market bigger than the economyOpenAI says Jalapeño beat Nvidia. ClickHouse hits $350 million ARR.
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Buy the chips. Or buy the team.Nvidia-backed Lambda is in talks for as much as $3 billion at $12 billion-plus. Chris Isidore says the sports-team buying spree is an AI-proof hedge.
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Closing Time: Nvidia is circling the search barAlibaba’s $10.2B AI raise. Chip prices up ~17%. Groq racks in production.