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OpenAI
The company behind ChatGPT — one of the AI industry's largest model developers, and the lead builder behind the Stargate data-center campus already running in Abilene, Texas.
12 published XAi stories on OpenAI; the most recent is dated October 2, 2026.
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- OpenAI posts a developer guide for its GPT-6 model familyOpenAI published a page it calls a practical guide to building with the GPT-6 family. The company says the guide covers how startups can pick among GPT-6 models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and get workflows ready for production. The posted text is short and does not include details beyond that description.
- OpenAI says Albertsons is using ChatGPT Enterprise across its grocery businessOpenAI published a customer story saying Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API in its work. OpenAI says the goal is to help Albertsons teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers. The post is OpenAI's own account of the arrangement, not an outside review.
- OpenAI essay argues AI's biggest value may be the routine work behind big ideasOpenAI published a piece called "The eternal complement" on its site. The company says advanced AI may matter most for the routine work that sits behind breakthrough ideas, and that execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress. The text available is a short description of that argument, not a study or a product announcement.
- West Texas is becoming the AI economy's power plantA wave of hyperscale AI data centers and dedicated private power plants is landing from Abilene through the Permian to the Panhandle — Stargate Abilene is already live, and Aligned's 540 MW Project Caprock is rising just outside Abernathy. But only about 1–2% of the gigawatts requested from ERCOT are actually operating, and the state has now paused approval of new projects pending a statewide audit.
- OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign to copy its models' reasoningOpenAI published a post saying it disrupted a coordinated campaign to extract protected model reasoning from its systems. The company says it is strengthening its defenses against what it calls adversarial distillation. The post itself is short on detail, and the account comes from OpenAI.
- OpenAI's DevDay: a cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol, background "dots" assistants and a bigger office pushOpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use and professional work at one-fifth of GPT-6 Astra's standard API prices. Its DevDay recap lists more than 20 announcements across ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security and builder tools, including "dots": proactive assistants that keep working across projects. TechCrunch also reports a new suite of office features that puts OpenAI in more direct competition with traditional software companies.
- OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuationTechCrunch reports OpenAI is in talks to raise a $30 billion round at a $1.4 trillion valuation. The round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
- Nvidia wants an industry-wide fix for rogue AI agents, and OpenAI isn't a public backerTechCrunch reports that OpenAI is not a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, an industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents, but is privately working with Nvidia, according to what the outlet says it has learned.
- ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Went Down at Once. No Shared Explanation Yet.A simultaneous outage hit the three biggest AI chatbots Thursday. As of this story's last edit, the cause was still unconfirmed. What it exposes is not.
- OpenAI says its newest model, GPT-6 Astra, is its most capable yet — and its riskiestOpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, which it calls its most intelligent and aligned model to date, with new capabilities in computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science. By OpenAI's own safety framework, it's also the first model the company has rated at the highest ("Critical") level of cybersecurity risk.
- OpenAI built its own AI chip to cut its dependence on NvidiaOpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom AI chip — built for inference (running already-trained models, not training them) and, by OpenAI's own benchmarks, beating Nvidia's Blackwell chips on performance per watt in most tests.
- OpenAI wants an AI agent doing your desk work, not just answering questionsOpenAI introduced Presence, aimed at enterprises, and is folding browser- and desktop-level agent control — reading inboxes, using apps like Slack, Notion and Figma, taking approved actions — directly into ChatGPT, retiring its standalone Atlas browser in the process.