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OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI company that develops AI models and tools such as Codex, and publishes the Model Spec, a document describing the values and intended behavior of its models.

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Company
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35
FIRST SEEN
Oct 26, 2026
LAST SEEN
Oct 29, 2026

Profile

OpenAI is a company that develops AI models and agents, and Sam Altman is its CEO.[1][2] On October 29, 2026, OpenAI published an updated Model Spec organized around five values, including honesty and transparency, human agency, and harm minimization.[3][4] The same day, OpenAI described using layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior.[5] Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI in the quarter ending September 30.[6] On October 28, OpenAI and ServiceNow announced an expanded partnership to bring OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow.[2] OpenAI told Politico it is launching an election "war room" ahead of the US midterms.[7]

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  • OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT Oct 29, 2026
  • OpenAI updates Model Spec to reorganize it around five values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care (OpenAI) Oct 29, 2026
  • An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI Oct 29, 2026
  • Q&A with Sam Altman on finding PHP bugs, sandboxing superhuman models as an unsolved safety dilemma, robotics scaling data centers, math, agent swarms, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint) Oct 29, 2026
  • Imposter abused trust in OpenAI, Anthropic, and 30 others to hunt for secrets Oct 29, 2026
  • Sources: DeepSeek and Moonshot AI heavily relied on GPT-6 Astra distillation to train models like Kimi K3.1 Pro and V4.1-Flash 1017, after Anthropic's crackdown (The Information) Oct 29, 2026
  • We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time Oct 29, 2026
  • Shadowy AI Relay Disables OpenAI Codex, Claude Code Sandboxes Oct 29, 2026
  • How we detect frontier model misalignment Oct 29, 2026
  • How Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence Oct 29, 2026
  • Filing: Microsoft recorded $10B in revenue from OpenAI in Q1, nearly 11% of its total quarterly revenue, and has $7.2B in outstanding receivables from OpenAI (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) Oct 28, 2026
  • Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI Oct 28, 2026
  • OpenAI says it's launching an election "war room" ahead of the US midterms to identify potential spread of misinfo or other efforts to disrupt the elections (Calder McHugh/Politico) Oct 28, 2026
  • OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership across enterprise workflows Oct 28, 2026
  • A US federal grand jury indicts OpenAI engineer and Saudi national Abdulrahman "Abdul" Alfozan on a felony charge of interception of oral communications (Sarah Brager/San Francisco Chronicle) Oct 28, 2026
  • Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February (Teddy Rosenbluth/New York Times) Oct 28, 2026
  • Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work Oct 28, 2026
  • Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work Oct 28, 2026
  • Source: OpenAI, a major Nvidia customer, plans to buy Google's TPUs; a job listing shows it seeks an engineer to "lead the optimization" of its models on TPUs (Ryan Barwick/The Information) Oct 27, 2026
  • Eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers can now claim up to $500 per month in free API credits as a subscription benefit. Activate the benefit from ChatGPT or API Platform… Oct 27, 2026
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