OpenAI is close to completing a funding round of up to $30 billion, co-led by UAE investors and Coatue, at a pre-money valuation of $1.25 trillion. Earlier reports said OpenAI planned to raise about $30 billion from investors, with the valuation potentially exceeding $1.4 trillion, with SoftBank Group and MGX participating; later reports said the round would be up to $30 billion at a pre-money valuation of $1.25 trillion, a valuation that does not yet include the new funding. OpenAI has told investors it aims to have signatures by the end of next week, with the final size still being determined, while it is also negotiating a commercial agreement with the UAE side to secure more computing resources.
The OpenAI Platform now offers the Decisions API playground. According to a Testing Catalog report on October 20, 2026, the playground allows users to test the recently released OpenAI decision model through three options: Predicate, Choice, and Score. There are currently no follow-up developments, and the status remains at the launch of this playground.
US prosecutors say the former OpenAI engineer accused of installing eavesdropping equipment in an OpenAI executive conference room has Saudi government ties. According to BBC reporting, prosecutors say an unnamed member of the Saudi royal family was in frequent contact with him via WhatsApp and tried to recruit him to join a Saudi AI program; he is also alleged to have said in May that Saudi Arabia needed him more than the US did, but that he would wait until his OpenAI stock vested before acting. Prosecutors also say he used his wife's ChatGPT account to research making and encrypting recording devices, and used OpenAI's internal productivity agent to find out which rooms executives and external partners used. OpenAI says it has found no indication that model weights, source code, or customer data were stolen. The case remains at the stage of prosecutors' allegations, with no subsequent evidence-supported developments.
The OpenAI Platform now offers the Decisions API playground. According to a Testing Catalog report on October 20, 2026, the playground allows users to test the recently released OpenAI decision model through three options: Predicate, Choice, and Score. There are currently no follow-up developments, and the status remains at the launch of this playground.
US prosecutors say the former OpenAI engineer accused of installing eavesdropping equipment in an OpenAI executive conference room has Saudi government ties. According to BBC reporting, prosecutors say an unnamed member of the Saudi royal family was in frequent contact with him via WhatsApp and tried to recruit him to join a Saudi AI program; he is also alleged to have said in May that Saudi Arabia needed him more than the US did, but that he would wait until his OpenAI stock vested before acting. Prosecutors also say he used his wife's ChatGPT account to research making and encrypting recording devices, and used OpenAI's internal productivity agent to find out which rooms executives and external partners used. OpenAI says it has found no indication that model weights, source code, or customer data were stolen. The case remains at the stage of prosecutors' allegations, with no subsequent evidence-supported developments.
US prosecutors say the former OpenAI engineer accused of installing eavesdropping equipment in an OpenAI executive conference room has Saudi government ties. According to BBC reporting, prosecutors say an unnamed member of the Saudi royal family was in frequent contact with him via WhatsApp and tried to recruit him to join a Saudi AI program; he is also alleged to have said in May that Saudi Arabia needed him more than the US did, but that he would wait until his OpenAI stock vested before actin
Jakub Pachocki said he has invited Aleksander Madry to return to OpenAI to work with him. Pachocki said that as AI capabilities improve, he is focused on the pace and impact of progress, and on how these affect OpenAI and the strategy of the entire field, which is why he extended the invitation. Madry, who was quoted, said he had thought his departure from OpenAI was in fact a leave of absence; now that AI progress has entered a new phase, addressing the safety and security challenges of increasingly powerful AI must become a core priority, and he will return to work on this together with Pachocki. At present, this account comes from Pachocki's side and the quoted remarks of Madry, with no further independent sources or subsequent developments.
Jakub Pachocki said he has invited Aleksander Madry to return to OpenAI to work with him. Pachocki said that as AI capabilities improve, he is focused on the pace and impact of progress, and on how these affect OpenAI and the strategy of the entire field, which is why he extended the invitation. Madry, who was quoted, said he had thought his departure from OpenAI was in fact a leave of absence; now that AI progress has entered a new phase, addressing the safety and security challenges of increas
Jakub Pachocki said he has invited Aleksander Madry to return to OpenAI to work with him. Pachocki said that as AI capabilities improve, he is focused on the pace and impact of progress, and on how these affect OpenAI and the strategy of the entire field, which is why he extended the invitation. Madry, who was quoted, said he had thought his departure from OpenAI was in fact a leave of absence; now that AI progress has entered a new phase, addressing the safety and security challenges of increasingly powerful AI must become a core priority, and he will return to work on this together with Pachocki. At present, this account comes from Pachocki's side and the quoted remarks of Madry, with no further independent sources or subsequent developments.
On October 7, 2026, WIRED reported that OpenAI had told relevant parties it planned to release solutions to hundreds of unsolved mathematical problems all at once on GitHub on Tuesday, but the release time had not yet been determined at that point. Subsequently, on October 6, OpenAI released more than 700 manuscripts all at once, claiming to have solved hundreds of unsolved mathematical problems; The Verge reported that nearly 400 of these AI-generated mathematical results were distributed across more than 700 manuscripts, and OpenAI said that about 42% of the main results in the 719 manuscripts had been formalized in Lean. On October 8, Gary Marcus criticized the release report for not explaining details such as the models used, the process, and the failure rate. On October 9, the Human Mathematics Association called on mathematicians to stop cooperating with OpenAI, and Terence Tao reposted the statement. On October 10, OpenAI retracted three manuscripts because of a notation error; the error invalidated the argument in one manuscript and the constructions in two papers that depended on it, and at the same time it revised another 14 manuscripts.
On October 7, 2026, WIRED reported that OpenAI had told relevant parties it planned to release solutions to hundreds of unsolved mathematical problems all at once on GitHub on Tuesday, but the release time had not yet been determined at that point. Subsequently, on October 6, OpenAI released more than 700 manuscripts all at once, claiming to have solved hundreds of unsolved mathematical problems; The Verge reported that nearly 400 of these AI-generated mathematical results were distributed acros