OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation

The new round is anticipated to be the company’s last before its delayed 2027 public debut.

A family almost let their dad sleep through a stroke, until ChatGPT told them to get help
A family almost let their dad sleep through a stroke, until ChatGPT told them to get help

Some alarming ChatGPT stories show why AI may be most valuable in healthcare when it recognizes danger and tells you when to get human help

Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern
Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern

OpenAI now has an AI research intern, chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday. He made the claim in his DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco. He told 2,500 developers that the company predicted a year ago it would reach that goal within 12 months. “…

Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents

OpenAI isn’t a public supporter of Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.

OpenAI’s agents can now run entirely inside Amazon’s cloud
OpenAI’s agents can now run entirely inside Amazon’s cloud

Companies can now build OpenAI agents that run entirely inside Amazon Web Services, with their data never leaving AWS. OpenAI and Amazon launched Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, at OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 event in San Francisco on Tuesday. The …

OpenAI halves Pro 200 usage and launches a $500 ChatGPT plan at DevDay
OpenAI halves Pro 200 usage and launches a $500 ChatGPT plan at DevDay

Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with OpenAI’s commitment not to reintroduce the five-hour limit on Pro 200. OpenAI is halving the usage included in its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan and launching a $500 plan with its fastest speed tier….

OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite

OpenAI’s newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies.

AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’
AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’

“The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view,” Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It’s one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Palisade Research, which says it’s a nonprofit studying AIs’ […]

OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra’s token prices
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra’s token prices

Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with a second safety test result from OpenAI and a customer quote from Salesforce. OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, a cheaper model that it says nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, compu…

OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers
OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers

Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with the regions where dots is available and a quote from an early tester. OpenAI said Pro users in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK will not get dots for now. OpenAI has launche…