OpenAI reportedly 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.
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.
More Ways to Disrupt: New 2026 Side Events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing + Descope
Disrupt doesn’t end when you leave Moscone West. 👀 Founder dinners, investor meetups, happy hours, workshops, roundtables and more are taking over San Francisco during Disrupt Wee…
Apple Pay set to launch in India with Axis Bank today, sources say
Some of India's largest banks are holding off on supporting Apple Pay initially.
GM will spend $1B making the first manganese-rich cells in mass production
GM and LG Energy Solution will spend $1B turning their Spring Hill plant into the first factory to mass-produce prismatic lithium manganese-rich cells. Europe’s carmakers are spen…
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 …
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.
Trump rules out working with China on AI safety before tech CEO lunch
US President Donald Trump has said he does not want to cooperate with China on AI governance, arguing that it would help Beijing catch up with American companies. He spoke on Tues…
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 b…
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 $20…
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.
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra’s token prices
OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, a cheaper model that it says nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work. It costs a fifth of Astra’s standar…
OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers
OpenAI has launched dots, AI agents that run all the time on their own cloud computers and work on a user’s behalf. The company announced dots at its DevDay 2026 event on Tuesday.…
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg among 31 guests at Trump’s AI lunch
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are joining other business leaders at the White House on Tuesday for a lunch event on artificial intelligence. The event will be hosted b…
Dutch police arrest ShinyHunters hacker accused of planning two murders
Dutch police said the hacker, arrested for being part of the ShinyHunters cybercriminal gang, had plans to organize the murder of two people on his laptop.
AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience
Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps and ongoing tasks.
OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plugins with app-like interfaces and automations
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plugins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations.
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and execu…
OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices
OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools and a security-focused product for scanning repos…
Apple’s new CEO cuts managers to ship products faster, Bloomberg reports
Apple’s new chief executive, John Ternus, is reshaping the company to release products more often and cut layers of management, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Ternus, 51, took ove…
AI agents are joining your workforce. Your workforce isn’t ready
Executives are making a dangerous mistake with AI. They are preparing employees to use new tools when they should be preparing them to work differently. As AI agents begin to reco…
Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out
America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but language models are imperfect and remain prone to hallucinations, which could cause new i…
PwC survey of 49,000 workers finds most are falling behind on AI skills
Nearly two-thirds of workers have used AI at work in the past year. Yet fewer say they can get the training they need, PwC found in its 2026 Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Surve…