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OpenAI is finalizing a record-breaking $100B+ funding round valuing the company at over $850B. Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft are among the key investors, marking the largest private tech fundraise in history.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed back on AI energy criticism by comparing it to the energy cost of human development — 20 years of life and all the food consumed before becoming capable. The comment sparked wide debate on Reddit.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that Peter Steinberger, creator of viral AI personal agent app OpenClaw, is joining the company to drive the next generation of personal agents across a multi-agent future.

OpenAI is in the final stages of closing a $100B+ funding round backed by Amazon ($50B), SoftBank ($30B), Nvidia ($20B), and Microsoft—more than doubling its previous $40B raise from March 2025.

OpenAI announced a $7.5 million commitment to support independent AI alignment research. The program combines direct funding and uncapped research credits for university and nonprofit teams focused on frontier model safety.

OpenAI published five model-generated submissions to the First Proof math challenge. None were accepted as valid solutions, but the release gives researchers direct evidence of where frontier reasoning systems succeed and fail.

OpenAI announced GPT-5 on 2025-08-07 for both ChatGPT and API usage. The launch highlights include a reported 45% hallucination reduction vs GPT-4o and major benchmark gains such as HealthBench Hard 44.6.

A top Hacker News post highlighted Peter Steinberger’s announcement that he is joining OpenAI, while saying OpenClaw will move into an independent foundation and remain open source.

On February 17, 2026, OpenAI announced GenAI.mil with the U.S. Department of Defense. The program sets a first-year contract ceiling of up to $200 million and is structured for use across federal agencies and approved providers.

In a February 14, 2026 notice, OpenAI said Robinhood’s EU ‘OpenAI tokens’ are not OpenAI equity and were not issued through any OpenAI partnership. The company reiterated that any OpenAI equity transfer requires prior company approval.

OpenAI announced GPT-5.3 Codex Spark on February 12, 2026, positioning it as a coding-focused model optimized for practical throughput and cost efficiency. The company reports lower latency and token cost versus GPT-5.2 while maintaining strong benchmark results.

On February 12, 2026, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT deep research, an agentic workflow designed to run multi-step web investigations and produce citation-backed reports. The release targets higher-value knowledge work where traceable evidence matters as much as speed.