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OpenAI is preparing a trillion-dollar IPO in 2026 to fund ChatGPT’s next evolution as global AI competition intensifies, Reuters reported. Artificial intelligence company OpenAI is reportedly preparing an initial public offering (IPO) for late 2026, which could see the world’s largest startup reach a trillion-dollar valuation. The AI company is reportedly preparing to launch its IPO at a $1 trillion valuation, which would include a $60 billion capital raise, according to three anonymous sources familiar with the matter, Reuters reported on Thursday. The filing may reach US securities regulators in the second half of 2026, putting OpenAI on track to debut on public markets ahead of its previously announced 2027 target. Read more

The recapitalization gives OpenAI freedom to partner with competitors and release open-weight models, even as both firms face legal pressure.

The move formalizes OpenAI’s ties with Microsoft, granting the tech giant long-term access to its AI models while locking in a $250 billion Azure commitment. OpenAI, the developer behind ChatGPT, has converted its organizational structure into a public benefit corporation, a shift designed to give the company greater flexibility to raise capital as it scales its artificial intelligence ambitions. According to The Wall Street Journal, the restructuring grants Microsoft a 27% stake in the new entity, valued at roughly $135 billion. The agreement also extends Microsoft’s access to OpenAI’s core technologies for the next seven years. As part of the deal, OpenAI has committed to spending $250 billion on Microsoft’s Azure cloud services over the lifetime of the partnership, further solidifying the companies’ strategic and financial interdependence. Read more

OpenAI has set in motion a $300 billion hardware expansion that binds its chip suppliers, financiers, and energy providers into a single feedback loop. The company has locked in multi-year agreements with AMD and Broadcom to deliver tens of millions of AI accelerators between 2026 and 2029, deals that together represent roughly 16 gigawatts of […] The post OpenAI builds $300B bubble machine: The feedback loop rewiring Wall Street finance appeared first on CryptoSlate.

OpenAI said it is working on a way for users to delete Sora accounts separately from their main OpenAI accounts.

Tether is estimated to be the crypto company closest to rivaling OpenAI’s $500 billion valuation, far ahead of Coinbase, Ripple and Circle. Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has become the world’s largest startup after reaching a $500 billion valuation in a secondary share sale.  Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reported on Thursday that current and former OpenAI employees sold $6.6 billion in stock to investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group Corp., Dragoneer Investment Group, Abu Dhabi’s MGX and T.Rowe Price.  The investment round boosted OpenAI's valuation to $500 billion, leapfrogging Elon Musk’s startup SpaceX, which has a market capitalization of about $400 billion. The company also dwarfed startups ByteDance and Anthropic, which are valued at $220 billion and $183 billion, respectively.  Read more

Critics slam OpenAI’s new shopping and Sora 2 video app as “infinite slop,” citing monopoly risks, energy costs, and mission drift.

Nvidia shifts from supplier to investor, deepening ties with OpenAI in a record-scale deal.

The company signaled it would need the green light from California and Delaware policymakers as part of the restructuring plan. Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with its largest investor, Microsoft, to restructure its business. In a Thursday notice, OpenAI said the move, first proposed in May, would allow its for-profit arm to transition to a public benefit corporation, while the nonprofit would maintain control of the company. Under the deal, the nonprofit arm will have a stake worth more than $100 billion in the public benefit corporation. Read more

ChatGPT Predicts XRP, Monero and Cardano could achieve substantial growth after a volatile Bitcoin swing and renewed regulatory clarity. With XRP rebounding from legal battles, Monero showing resilience, and Cardano gaining traction, analysts suggest altcoins may drive the next phase of market momentum. The post OpenAI’s ChatGPT Predicts the Price of XRP, XMR, and ADA After Recent Market Crash appeared first on Cryptonews.

OpenAI’s latest funding round, which values the company at $300 billion, was five times oversubscribed amid surging investor demand for AI, according to The New York Times. OpenAI has raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation, accelerating its plan to secure $40 billion in funding by year’s end. The latest round, led by Dragoneer Investment Group, comes after the company raised $2.5 billion in March. According to The New York Times on Friday, Dragoneer committed $2.8 billion to the raise, representing roughly 10% of its total funds. The funding round brings OpenAI closer to its 2025 target, which includes a $30 billion commitment from SoftBank. The funding round was five times oversubscribed, meaning investors wanted to invest roughly $40 billion, the Times said. OpenAI prioritized new strategic investors over existing backers, frustrating some investors who received smaller allocations than they hoped for. Read more

OpenAI expands Stargate with Oracle to surpass 5 GW of AI power, while Elon Musk outlines plans for xAI to deploy 50 million H100-scale units in 5 years. OpenAI announced a 4.5 gigawatt (GW) expansion in partnership with Oracle to power future AI development. The deal, part of OpenAI’s long-term vision to deploy 10 gigawatts of compute capacity across the US, will add to its existing Stargate I facility in Abilene, Texas, and push the project beyond its original commitment made at the White House in January, the firm said on Tuesday. “This is a gigantic infrastructure project,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X, sharing images of the Abilene site. In an earlier post, he confirmed that over one million GPUs will be online by year-end, and joked, “Now they better get to work figuring out how to 100x that.” Read more

Robinhood’s private equity tokens, offering exposure to tech stocks like SpaceX and OpenAI, have triggered regulatory scrutiny in Europe after OpenAI raised concerns and said that the digital assets do not represent equity ownership in the company, CNBC reported on July 7. The Bank of Lithuania, which serves as Robinhood’s primary regulator in the European […] The post EU regulators probing Robinhood’s tokenized equity plans after OpenAI raises concerns appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Robinhood’s OpenAI and SpaceX tokens are controversial, but the fine print indicates that they offer indirect exposure to these companies through derivatives. Robinhood’s stock token offerings are under regulatory scrutiny in the European Union after OpenAI warned investors that the digital brokerage’s so-called OpenAI tokens do not represent any equity stake in the company. OpenAI’s warning prompted an inquiry by Lithuania’s central bank, which serves as Robinhood’s primary regulator in the region.  The Bank of Lithuania is “awaiting clarifications” regarding Robinhood’s stock token offerings linked to OpenAI and SpaceX, CNBC reported on Monday, citing Giedrius Šniukas, a spokesperson for the Bank of Lithuania. Read more

The platform's OpenAI private equity tokens were disavowed by the company, prompting OpenAI co-founder, Elon Musk, to call the AI firm "fake." OpenAI issued a statement on Wednesday clarifying that OpenAI tokens distributed to European Union users by the trading platform Robinhood do not represent equity in the company. "We are not involved in this and do not endorse it,” representatives of the company wrote on social media. “Any transfer of OpenAI equity requires our approval — we did not approve any transfer. Please be careful." Robinhood distributed $5 worth of OpenAI and SpaceX tokens to clients in the EU region on Monday as part of the company's push into tokenized stock trading, which included launching a layer-2 blockchain network to settle tokenized equity trades. Read more

OpenAI said on July 2 that digital tokens trading under its name on Robinhood’s new blockchain platform do not represent OpenAI equity and were listed without the company’s consent. In a statement posted on X, the artificial intelligence developer wrote:  “These ‘OpenAI tokens’ are not OpenAI equity. We did not partner with Robinhood, were not […] The post OpenAI disavows Robinhood’s ‘OpenAI tokens,’ says demo stock was not approved and has no equity backing appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Meta's latest AI hire follows several developments and partnerships aimed at making the tech giant a leader in the burgeoning sector. Tech company Meta has hired Trapit Bansal, a former key researcher at artificial intelligence company OpenAI, who was central to developing the firm's o1 reasoning AI model. Bansal is the latest ex-OpenAI researcher to join the Meta team, following the addition of Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, according to TechCrunch. The hires are part of Meta's push to expand its AI operations and overhaul the capabilities of its reasoning models by training its AI on real-world scenarios to cultivate intelligence. Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun previously said: Read more

OpenAI is dropping Scale AI from its data labeling suppliers days after the startup’s acquisition by Meta. OpenAI is scaling back its contracts with Scale AI, a data labeling startup recently acquired by social media giant Meta. According to a Thursday report from Bloomberg, the ChatGPT maker is winding down its reliance on the startup's data, a few days after Meta announced a $14.8 billion deal for a 49% ownership stake in Scale AI. The acquisition was Meta’s second-largest and will also have Scale CEO Alexandr Wang joining Meta’s experimental AI project. The companies announced the deal on June 12. Read more

Sam Altman didn’t specify how the new devices would operate or what they would look like. OpenAI is planning to develop AI “companion” devices that will integrate artificial intelligence capabilities with everyday life, potentially opening the door to a new high-tech innovation used alongside laptops and smartphones. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he and designer Jony Ive are developing these secret devices for mass consumption, with plans to ship 100 million units upon launch. Ives joined OpenAI after his startup, io, was acquired by Altman’s company in a $6.5 billion deal, the Journal reported on May 21.  Read more

OpenAI’s doomsday bunker plan, the “potential benefits” of propaganda bots, plus the best fake books you can’t read this summer. AI Eye.. In the last AI Eye, we reported that scientists from the four leading AI companies believe theres at least a 10% chance of AI killing around 50% of humanity in the next decade one scientist was buying farmland in the US Midwest so he could ride out the AI apocalypse. This week, it emerged that another doomsday prepper is OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. According to Empire of AI author Karen Hao, he told key scientists in mid-2023 that “we’re definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI.” Artificial General Intelligence is the vaguely defined idea for a sentient intelligence smarter than humans.  The underground compound would protect the scientists from geopolitical chaos or violent competition between world powers once AGI was released.  Read more