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The OpenAI Foundation announced a $100 million commitment to the Common Health Coalition to launch Breakthroughs to Follow-Through (B2F), a national effort using AI to improve health outcomes, startin…
The OpenAI Foundation announced a $100 million commitment to the Common Health Coalition to launch Breakthroughs to Follow-Through (B2F), a national effort using AI to improve health outcomes, startin…
OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit that governs OpenAI, announced a $100 million commitment to the Breakthroughs to Follow-Through Initiative, a public health partnership with the Common Health Coalitio…
OpenAI completed a roughly $7 billion tender offer for employee shares at an implied $852 billion valuation, with the company itself buying the shares rather than outside investors, CNBC reported Mond…
OpenAI published an open letter refuting Apple's trade-secret lawsuit, calling Apple 'one of the greatest companies of all time' while arguing the claims are based on factual errors and poor communica…
OpenAI previewed Astra, an unreleased model built for long-running research tasks, by publishing 10 claimed advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science on August 1, with an internal versi…
A California man is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman after alleging that GPT-4o's responses encouraged a suicide attempt, claiming the chatbot's design—including persistent memory, anthropomorphic lang…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has established a Memorandum of Understanding with OpenAI that gives the state oversight over the AI company's transition from a nonprofit to a publicly traded co…
A coalition of over 50 nonprofit, labor and philanthropic organizations called EyesOnOpenAI submitted a letter to the SEC urging it to ensure OpenAI fully disclose governance risks and potential finan…
OpenAI added David Vélez, founder and CEO of Nubank, and Robin Vince, chairman and CEO of BNY, to the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC on July 21, 2026, with Vince reportedly chair…
David Vélez, founder and CEO of Nubank, and Robin Vince, chairman and CEO of BNY, have joined the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing experience in leading global financial …
Apple sued OpenAI and two former employees on Friday, alleging theft of trade secrets including product designs and supply chain strategies to benefit OpenAI's consumer hardware push. The lawsuit, fil…
Apple sued OpenAI and two former employees on Friday, alleging theft of trade secrets related to consumer hardware. The complaint claims former Apple engineer Chang Liu accessed confidential files aft…
Apple sued OpenAI on Friday in California federal court, accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets related to its hardware, including allegations that OpenAI's chief hardware officer, Tang Yew…
Three winners were announced in an essay contest on big questions about AI. Jassi Pannu of Johns Hopkins University proposed using an OpenAI Foundation to end airborne diseases, Ege Erdil of Mechanize…
Eric Gilliam proposes that AI philanthropists adopt Warren Weaver's risk-tolerant, concentrated investment strategy to maximize impact, drawing on a blog prize by Dwarkesh Patel and a post by Stripe C…
Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo launched "Raise Us," a bipartisan nonprofit funded by Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and the OpenAI Foundation to prepare American workers for AI-driven job s…
A new non-profit organization, Raise Us, launched Thursday with over $500 million in funding from Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation to help US workers transition to an AI economy…
Former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and former Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo launched RAISE US, a bipartisan nonprofit coalition to prepare the U.S. workforce for AI-driven job disruption. The …
Former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb are co-founding a bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, with over $500 million to address potential job losses from AI. The group…
A new bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, launches with over $500 million to retrain American workers for the AI era, partnering with states and major employers like Amazon and Microsoft to prevent catast…