OpenAI

In a Fortune interview published Sep 12, 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will not go public in 2026 despite having filed confidentially for an IPO, saying 'right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public' given safety and alignment work after the July Hugging Face agent breakout; asked whether 2026 was off the table he replied 'I would say not 2026.' The same day Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei publicly backed slowing frontier AI development. It pushes the most anticipated AI listing to 2027 at the earliest, resetting secondary-market timing expectations.

Source: Fortune

On September 10, 2026 ClickHouse announced it is a launch partner for OpenAI's new Data agent in ChatGPT Work, shipping a ClickHouse Cloud plugin in the ChatGPT Work and Codex plugin directories that lets users connect via OAuth, explore schemas, run read-only queries and turn results into dashboards in natural language, built on ClickHouse's remote MCP server. The post notes OpenAI itself runs petabyte-scale observability on ClickHouse. It is a distribution tie-in with OpenAI's enterprise product.

Source: ClickHouse

On Sep 10, 2026 Amazon Ads announced a pilot letting select US brands buy ads in ChatGPT, with campaigns set up and managed by Amazon while OpenAI's ads system controls delivery; units appear as text or images beneath ChatGPT responses. It is a vote of confidence from the largest online retailer in OpenAI's ad business, which hit a $1B annualized run rate on Aug 31, roughly eight months after OpenAI began selling US sponsored placements. It adds a major demand channel to OpenAI's nascent advertising revenue line.

Source: CNBC

Broadcom guided to roughly $230 billion in AI revenue by 2028, with analysts attributing the bonanza largely to custom chip demand from OpenAI and Anthropic, while flagging unresolved concentration risks.

Source: Yahoo Finance

OpenAI said its forthcoming Astra model is the first to cross its 'Critical' cybersecurity capability threshold, and it will limit who can access the model's most advanced cyber features.

Source: bloomberg-tech

OpenAI’s advertising business has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate, the company said Monday, suggesting it is likely to fall well short of the $2.4 billion in ad revenue it had projected for 2026.

Source: OpenAI

OpenAI said it will end its agreement with AI coding agent Cursor following Cursor's acquisition by SpaceX, alleging contract violations by Elon Musk's companies and deepening the Musk-Altman rivalry.

Source: bloomberg-tech

OpenAI is the only limited partner backing its latest venture fund, according to the Wall Street Journal, underscoring its go-it-alone approach to startup investing.

Source: WSJ