OpenAI Closes Record $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation, With $35 Billion Contingent on IPO or AGI
The largest private funding round in history values OpenAI at $852 billion, with Amazon, SoftBank, and Nvidia among the backers.
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The largest private funding round in history values OpenAI at $852 billion, with Amazon, SoftBank, and Nvidia among the backers.
Check Point and BeyondTrust disclose two distinct vulnerabilities in OpenAI products that allowed covert data theft through DNS queries and GitHub token compromise via branch name injection.
Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude both ship tools to import rival chatbot data, signaling that user lock-in is now a front in the AI platform war.
OpenAI will acquire Astral, the startup behind uv, Ruff, and ty, folding critical Python infrastructure into Codex as AI coding platforms race to own developer toolchains.
A new Extensions system in iOS 27 will let users route Siri queries to Claude, Gemini, and other third-party AI services, replacing the current ChatGPT-only arrangement.
OpenAI discontinues its Sora video generation app, ends a three-year Disney licensing deal, and redirects compute to a new model codenamed Spud ahead of a potential IPO.
February 2026 shattered all venture capital records with $189 billion deployed globally, but 83 percent of that capital flowed to just three AI companies, deepening a K-shaped market where mega-rounds surge while seed funding contracts.
OpenAI releases its most capable model yet with autonomous computer operation and enterprise integrations, but the launch is overshadowed by Pentagon deal fallout and a reported 1.5 million user exodus.
Caitlin Kalinowski left OpenAI after the company signed a classified Pentagon agreement without sufficient deliberation on safeguards against domestic surveillance and lethal autonomy.
Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank pour $110 billion into OpenAI at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, reshaping the AI capital landscape and ending Microsoft's exclusive cloud partnership.
Consumer backlash follows OpenAI's DoD agreement; Claude climbs to No. 1 on U.S. App Store as QuitGPT campaign claims 1.5 million participants.
The Linux Foundation established AAIF on December 9, 2025, placing MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md under neutral open-source governance with eight platinum members including AWS, Google, and Microsoft.