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OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise $110 billion from investors including Amazon and NVIDIA, pushing its valuation to $840 billion and cementing its status as one of the world's most valuable AI companies.

The 'Cancel ChatGPT' movement has gone mainstream following OpenAI's deal with the U.S. Department of Defense. Anthropic's refusal to apply Claude to mass surveillance or autonomous weapons has driven a wave of user migration from ChatGPT to Claude.

President Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic products after the company refused Pentagon demands. OpenAI signed a deal with similar but accepted guardrails within hours.

OpenAI closed a $110B round led by Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B). ChatGPT now reaches 900 million weekly active users and 50 million paying subscribers.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a Pentagon deal to deploy AI models in classified networks just hours after Anthropic was blacklisted by the Trump administration. The agreement explicitly includes prohibitions on mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a Pentagon deal to deploy AI models in classified networks just hours after Anthropic was blacklisted by the Trump administration. The agreement explicitly includes prohibitions on mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.

OpenAI said on February 28, 2026 that it reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of War to deploy advanced AI systems in classified environments. In a follow-up post, the company said the arrangement uses a multi-layer safety approach and cloud-based deployment with cleared personnel in the loop.

OpenAI and Amazon announced a multi-year strategic partnership on February 27, 2026. The announcement covers a Bedrock-based Stateful Runtime Environment, AWS distribution for OpenAI Frontier, and major Trainium capacity commitments.

Greg Brockman posted that the first steel beams are now up at the Stargate site in Milam County, Texas. The update also names SoftBank and SB Energy as project partners.

Microsoft Azure announced that Microsoft Foundry now offers GPT-Realtime-1.5, GPT-Audio-1.5, and GPT-5.3-Codex. The stated focus is low-latency voice interactions and long-running engineering workflows.

OpenAI and Figma announced a partnership that links Figma Make with OpenAI Codex workflows. The companies position the integration as a faster path from prompt and prototype to production-ready software.

OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced a public-sector AI pilot focused on permit review for clean energy projects. The program starts in Washington state and aims to reduce timelines from multiple years to under one year.