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OpenAI is the San Francisco company that makes ChatGPT, the GPT model family and the Codex coding agent. It began in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab and, after an October 2025 recapitalization, is now a public benefit corporation controlled by a nonprofit foundation, a structure that shapes debates about its mission and its investors.

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Checked Oct 9
ChatGPT launch
November 30, 2022

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Policy · NewsUK AI security push: Kanishka Narayan tells frontier labs 'do not release' risky systems as spy chiefs' AI warning is reportedOn October 12, 2026, UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan announced plans to use frontier AI for cyber defense, strengthen cyber legislation and prepare for AI-agent incidents, and told frontier developers not to release systems whose risks they can't control. Separately, the Sunday Times reported that the heads of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ warned the cabinet about AI.·5 min readIndustry · AnalysisAnthropic vs OpenAI revenue: why gross vs net accounting makes the run-rate headlines hard to compareBloomberg reported on October 9, 2026 that Anthropic counts the gross value of some Claude sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI books only its share. What gross and net revenue mean, and how to read the $50 billion, $65 billion and $70 billion figures.·7 min readResearch · AnalysisEpoch AI's InnovationEval: AI agents fell far short of a human ML innovation and overstated their resultsEpoch AI's InnovationEval asked Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol to invent a post-training method on their own. After Epoch removed best-run cherry-picking and out-of-scope changes, they scored 2% and 15% of a human baseline, and both write-ups overstated what they had achieved.·8 min readResearch · AnalysisMulti-agent vs. single-agent coding: Vals AI finds agent teams cost 1.8× to 5.1× more for one significant gainVals AI ran GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 on 50 Vibe Code Bench web apps, alone and as agent teams. Teams cost 1.8× to 5.1× as much, and only one of four team-vs-single comparisons showed a statistically significant quality gain.·7 min readAgents · NewsThe Week in AI #2: Sonnet 5.5, OpenAI DevDay and a gated Gemini 4September 28 – October 4, 2026: two $2/$10 workhorse models, OpenAI's always-on dots, Google's cyber-first Gemini 4 Argon, and Copilot learns to use your desktop.·6 min readAgents · NewsThe Week in AI #1: Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Grok 4.7 land within 48 hoursSeptember 21–27, 2026: three new coding-focused frontier models, Cursor's deploy-watching bots, and a sandbox for GitHub Copilot's desktop app.·4 min readIndustry · NewsOpenAI reportedly seeks $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation as it deepens Atlassian dealThe funding talks are unconfirmed and OpenAI's IPO has slipped to 2027. The Atlassian expansion, announced October 6, is the part OpenAI has put in writing.·4 min readPolicy · NewsChatGPT starts watermarking text in the EU as the AI Act's marking deadline approachesOpenAI's October 5 rollout is the most visible sign yet of the AI Act's content-marking rule. Systems already on the market have until December 2 to comply.·5 min readDevelopers · NewsOpenAI's Agents API puts the Codex harness behind one endpoint: what developers get, and what they give upIn public beta since September 10, with computer use added September 29. How sessions, sandboxes and approvals work, what it costs, and the catches.·5 min readModels · NewsGPT-6 reaches every ChatGPT user: what OpenAI shipped, what it costs, and where each model runsFour GPT-6 models in five weeks, split across ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs, Codex and the API. Here's the verified map, with prices.·6 min read

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