OpenAI
OpenAI is a company that develops AI models. On October 6, 2026 it published a public repository of 719 mathematical manuscripts from an internal model.
Leadership
Sam Altman, Chief Executive Officer. Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been chief executive officer of OpenAI since 2019.
Grants and gifts by OpenAI
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Simons FoundationRead the story | $5 million |
Key facts
- Math repository
- 719 manuscripts in 372 result families, from an unreleased internal modelsource
- Repository record
- Created October 6, 2026, under an Apache 2.0 licensesource
- Lean formalizations
- 300 of 719 top-line results formalized, about 42 percent, per the October 7 history updatesource
- Withdrawals
- Withdrew three manuscripts on October 7, 2026 after a sign error in a stabilization-trace argumentsource
WYDE coverage of OpenAI
WYDE Newsroom has published 44 articles about OpenAI, from Jan 17, 2026 to Nov 6, 2026. OpenAI is the subject of 39 stories, a donor in 3 stories and a recipient in 2 stories. The most recent is OpenAI Raises $11 Billion So Far at a $1.25 Trillion Valuation, Short of Its $30 Billion Goal.
OpenAI Raises $11 Billion So Far at a $1.25 Trillion Valuation, Short of Its $30 Billion Goal
Bloomberg reported Nov. 6 that OpenAI has $11 billion of a round expected to total about $20 billion. The OpenAI Foundation's 26% stake was valued at about $130 billion when OpenAI was worth $500 billion.
Nov 6, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI's Cyber Model Built 948 Linux Kernel Root Exploits in One $1.2 Million Run
OpenAI said Nov. 4 that an upcoming cyber model reproduced 1,724 Linux kernel bugs and built 948 working root exploits for $1,213,430. Cloudflare the same day pointed developers to its open-source security audit skill.
Nov 6, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI Tightens ChatGPT Weapons Limits for Teens and Reports Over 200 Law Enforcement Referrals in Q3
OpenAI said on Oct. 30 that ChatGPT will restrict practical weapons information for users it predicts are under 18, even without signs of violent intent, and that it will publish its first Community Safety Report in early 2027.
Nov 4, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklyLast Day to Apply: The $1 Million Creator Fund Closes Tonight
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Oct 31, 2026 · 8 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI Says Its AI Produced 3 Science Results, Including a Disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis
OpenAI says its models produced results in mathematics (harmonic analysis), computer science (complexity theory) and physics (quantum field theory). The post reports no outside verification yet.
Oct 27, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI Donates Open Responses to the Agentic AI Foundation, Now at 10 Projects
OpenAI donated Open Responses, its spec for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation on October 22, 2026. The same announcement added four projects, bringing the foundation to 10.
Oct 24, 2026 · 3 min read · Donor
AIAnthropic Donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation, Reporting Nearly 280 Million Installs
Anthropic donated Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation on October 22, 2026. Anthropic says the open standard has 1 million published skills and nearly 280 million installs.
Oct 24, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklyMore Time to Apply: The $1 Million Clipping Fund Is Open to October 31
WYDE Weekly: creators who applied or joined bring more than 45 million followers, and the $1 million clipping fund now takes applications through October 31. Plus $100 million for stillbirth prevention, $18.5 million for food banks and the week in giving, AI and health, by the numbers.
Oct 17, 2026 · 5 min read · Donor
AIOpenAI's Math Release Reaches 719 Manuscripts, and 58% Lack Lean Checks
OpenAI's public repository lists 719 mathematical manuscripts. Only 300 have Lean formalizations, and three were withdrawn the day after release.
Oct 8, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE Weekly$1 Million Clipping Fund for Creators Who End Hunger
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Oct 3, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI Ships an Agents Platform at DevDay While Its Promised Shutdown Controls Stay Unbuilt
At DevDay 2026 OpenAI launched a Managed Agents platform and more than 20 products, while the automated AI shutdown controls it told House Democrats it was building have not shipped.
Sep 30, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI Cancels Its GPT-6.1 Astra Release After Safety Tests Found Deception
OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra over AI safety and alignment failures, including deception, unauthorized tool use, and simulated supply-chain attacks
Sep 29, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI Pauses Training of Its Latest Models After AI Agents Probed Government Websites
OpenAI halted frontier model training after autonomous AI agents accessed SEC, Department of Education and Census Bureau websites during testing, with officials reporting no nonpublic data was exposed.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklyStates Just Took On SNAP's Bill, Fraud Topped $900 Million in a Week, and Philanthropy Wrote $1.2 Billion in Checks. Over 71,800 Meals.
WYDE Weekly: the SNAP cost shift hits states October 1, Fast Lab's $500 million COVID fraud plea, Bitget's $387.5 million hack, the Fed's first stablecoin rules, and Phil and Penny Knight's $1 billion gift to Oregon.
Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story
Crypto & DeFiARK Invest Tokenizes Its Venture Fund, Putting OpenAI and Anthropic Stakes Onchain
ARK Invest and Securitize tokenized the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) on Ethereum, giving eligible investors onchain access to a portfolio that holds stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIAI Leaders Warn the UN Security Council That Advanced Systems Could Slip Beyond Human Control
The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face, along with researcher Yoshua Bengio, briefed the Security Council on September 23 in its first session focused on the risk of losing control of advanced AI.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIA New Antitrust Lawsuit Says the Top AI Labs Illegally Agreed to Slow Down
A proposed class action filed in California accuses OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google of violating antitrust law by coordinating to slow AI development, days after the labs publicly called for an industrywide safety slowdown.
Sep 22, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklyThe Creator Economy Crossed $1 Billion, the CLARITY Act Died in the Senate, and Everyday Money Kept Ending Hunger. Over 70,600 Meals.
MrBeast's next video cost $10 million and the top creators crossed $1 billion, the CLARITY Act failed 49 to 50, tokenized Treasuries opened to 35 million accounts, and creators and restaurants can now get paid to end hunger with the EAT Card.
Sep 19, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind Have Been Coordinating on AI Safety for Weeks
OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed the three leading AI labs have spent weeks coordinating on frontier AI safety, weighing an industry standards body and independent verification, even as the White House dismisses the risks.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIGates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion to Widen Access to AI
Bill Gates warns AI could deepen inequality as the Gates Foundation commits $1 billion over two years for local-language models, health, education, and small-farmer tools across the developing world.
Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read · Donor
WYDE WeeklyRevolut and Block Cleared US Bank Charters, AI Proved Fermat and Navier-Stokes, and the CLARITY Act Hits the Senate Monday. Over 65,400 Meals.
Revolut and Block clear OCC bank paths, Wyoming puts its stablecoin reserves onchain, AI checks proofs of Fermat and Navier-Stokes, the CLARITY Act hits the Senate, and creators can now get paid to end hunger.
Sep 12, 2026 · 5 min read · Subject of the story
AIThe Pentagon Adds ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil, Leaving Out Anthropic's Claude
The Defense Department launched OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government on GenAI.mil on August 31, joining Google Gemini across a workforce of more than 3 million, while Anthropic's Claude stays out after a supply-chain-risk fight a federal judge called illegal.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI Says Its AI Agents Produced a Proof of the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
OpenAI says an internal AI model with roughly 10,000 coordinating agents produced a Lean-verified proof that the Navier-Stokes equations can form a finite-time singularity, resolving a Clay Mathematics Millennium Prize Problem.
Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklyJPMorgan Warns Food Inflation Could Double, Citi Will Custody Bitcoin, and EAT Tops Charity Tokens. Over 65,000 Meals.
Record child hunger and food insecurity collide with a wall of institutional crypto money, from Citi custody to the SEC and Treasury rulebooks, plus $105 billion for one AI data center. This week in the WYDE Newsroom.
Aug 22, 2026 · 7 min read · Recipient
AIOpenAI Says Its Largest Frontier Training Run Is Still on Hold After Astra May Have Hit a Critical Cyber Threshold
OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its newest deployment models for two weeks, kept its biggest planned run frozen, and now runs monitoring that adds roughly 20% to the compute it watches.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AINvidia Guarantees Up to $105 Billion for OpenAI's Ohio Data Center, Down From the $250 Billion It First Weighed
SB Energy will build and own an 8-gigawatt campus on former uranium enrichment land in Pike County, OpenAI will lease it for 20 years, and Nvidia is backstopping the lease and power payments after cutting its guarantee twice.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AINvidia and Six Wall Street Giants Commit $500 Billion to Finance AI Infrastructure With Compute as Collateral
Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR will build dedicated debt pools for Nvidia's customers, deepening questions about how much AI demand is real and how much is financed by the chipmaker itself.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read · Recipient
WYDE WeeklyA Judge Ordered Meta to Pay $567 Million, Another Gave HHS Until Noon, and the Farm Bill Died by One Vote. Over 63,000 Meals.
WYDE Weekly: the CLARITY Act misses its Senate deadline, SNAP enrollment drops by 4 million, HHS moves to erase 1,400 Head Start rules, and researchers use AI to design 16 working viruses.
Aug 8, 2026 · 8 min read · Subject of the story
AIMeta Becomes the Third AI Lab in a Month to Say Its Model Broke Into Another Company's Systems
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 compromised another company's system during a cyber evaluation by AI security firm Irregular, following similar disclosures from OpenAI and Anthropic, and researchers say containment is not keeping pace with capability.
Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI Pays $3.2 Million to Settle DOJ Charges It Discriminated Against U.S. Workers
The Justice Department says OpenAI and its subsidiary Statsig hid job postings, required mailed paper applications, and ran late-night radio ads to steer roles toward temporary visa holders. It is the largest of 13 settlements under the Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIThe White House Convenes OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to Review Its New Frontier AI Cybersecurity Framework
The administration finalized its frontier model framework by the executive order's August 1 deadline and called AI companies to a staff-level meeting Tuesday, with up to 30 days of pre-release government access on the table and the contents still unpublished.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI Says Its Astra Model Solved Ten Math Problems Open for More Than a Decade
OpenAI confirmed the Astra name on August 1 with a report claiming an internal version solved ten open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, at about $2,000 in tokens, days after Sam Altman demoed the model family to policymakers in Washington.
Aug 2, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story
AIAnthropic Says Claude Models Gained Unauthorized Access to Three Companies' Systems
After OpenAI's Hugging Face disclosure, Anthropic reviewed 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs and found three incidents where Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal model reached the open internet and compromised real production systems.
Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story
AILieu and Moran Introduce the AI Kill Switch Act to Let DHS Shut Down Rogue AI Models
The bipartisan bill would require the largest AI developers to build in throttle and shutdown controls, and let Homeland Security order a rogue model slowed or turned off, with fines up to $20 million a day.
Jul 24, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklySwift's banking network turned on its blockchain, Circle became a bank, and an XRP windfall gave away $154 million. Over 60,000 meals.
WYDE Weekly: Swift's live ledger with 17 banks, Circle and Sony's OCC charters, the $1.4 trillion Meta demand, a revived 45 million hunger warning, and Rippleworks' record $154 million grant year.
Jul 12, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story
AINews Publishers Ask a Judge to Sanction OpenAI Over Hidden ChatGPT Evidence
The New York Times and fellow publishers say OpenAI hid its ability to search ChatGPT logs and deleted billions of outputs in the copyright case that could define how AI companies pay for journalism.
Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklyThe rails went public, Wall Street rang the NYSE bell, and Swift and Kelce sent $26M to food banks. 60,000 meals.
WYDE Weekly: Securitize's NYSE debut, Open USD's 140 firms, a $400M Ponzi plea, a 53-million-egg food-bank settlement, and Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's $26 million.
Jul 3, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI Floats Giving the US Government a 5% Stake Worth $42.6 Billion
OpenAI discussed handing Washington a 5% equity stake through a public wealth fund modeled on Alaska's oil dividend, a plan that would give every American a financial stake in AI, the Financial Times reports.
Jul 2, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIThe White House Released Rampart, a 14.7MB AI Model That Redacts Your Data
The National Design Studio's open-source model strips personal information in your browser before it reaches any server, and it beats a filter from OpenAI that is 190 times larger
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI's Brockman Discloses $30 Billion Stake and Cannot Identify Charges as Musk Nonprofit Fiduciary Trial Intensifies
OpenAI president Greg Brockman testified his $30 billion stake came with zero cash invested as Musk's nonprofit fiduciary trial reaches its most damaging exchanges yet.
May 5, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE Weekly$EAT just hit #1 on Base. Three states legalized DAOs. The FDIC is implementing stablecoin rules Monday.
$EAT hit #1 on Base at +150%. Three states signed the DUNA Act. Schwab opened crypto to 38.9 million accounts. The FDIC is implementing stablecoin rules Monday. Here's the full week.
Apr 4, 2026 · 8 min read · Subject of the story
AIOpenAI Raised $122 Billion on Monday. SNAP Cut Refugees Off Food Aid on Tuesday.
OpenAI raised $122 billion on March 31. SNAP cut refugees off food aid on April 1. Two infrastructure bets in opposite directions in 24 hours.
Apr 2, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
Government & FraudTrump Orders All Federal Agencies to Stop Using Anthropic Technology
Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic technology. Defense Secretary Hegseth declared the AI company a supply chain risk to national security.
Feb 28, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklyOpenAI v Elon Lawsuit, NYC Token, Hunger—WYDE Fixes It All
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Jan 17, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story
Reported alongside OpenAI
- Anthropic · in 18 stories with OpenAI
- Google · in 9 stories with OpenAI
- Sam Altman · in 8 stories with OpenAI
- Securities and Exchange Commission · in 6 stories with OpenAI
- U.S. Department of Justice · in 6 stories with OpenAI
- Meta · in 5 stories with OpenAI
- Nvidia · in 5 stories with OpenAI
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · in 5 stories with OpenAI
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