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  By Sidra Salman · October 26, 2026 OpenAI is not just competing with Anthropic on model quality anymore. According to a new report from The Information, published October 25, 2026, OpenAI is competing on price — and winning some of Anthropic's biggest customers in the process. The report, summarized by several outlets over the weekend, names three companies that have shifted meaningful AI spending from Anthropic to OpenAI after steep discounts: Replit, Rippling, and DataCamp. A fourth example, an unnamed U.S. bank with more than $7 billion in assets, reportedly doubled its ChatGPT seats to 500 employees at no extra charge, paying under $7 per user instead of the standard $20 or more. Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic has publicly confirmed the deals described in the report, and The Information's original article sits behind a paywall. What follows is what the reporting says, what is still unconfirmed, and why it matters even if you never buy an enterprise AI contract. What The...

  By Sidra Salman · October 25, 2026 Texas just became the tenth US state to sue OpenAI — and this one goes further than the rest. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a 67-page lawsuit on Friday, October 23, 2026, against both the company and its CEO, Sam Altman, personally. If Texas wins, ChatGPT could be barred for minors in the state, and no new OpenAI model could reach Texas users until a court-approved independent evaluator signs off on it. That last demand is the one to watch. No other state has asked a court to put a third-party gatekeeper between OpenAI and its users. Here's what Texas actually filed, how it differs from the lawsuits that came before it, and what it could mean for the millions of people who use ChatGPT every day. What Texas filed Paxton filed the case in Collin County District Court under two Texas laws: the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, the state's main consumer-protection statute, and the SCOPE Act, a newer law that requires digital services to ver...

By Sidra Salman · October 24, 2026 OpenAI just made one of the biggest safety calls in the short history of frontier AI: it will no longer train its most powerful models on the live internet. Instead, future training runs will use cached copies and simulated versions of the web — a move the company says is necessary because its models have become too unpredictable to be trusted with live access. The announcement, made Friday, lands two weeks after rival Anthropic started limiting its newest models' live-internet access during training. Together, the two labs have now effectively agreed on something nobody would have predicted a year ago: the smartest AI systems on earth are no longer allowed to roam the open web while they learn. What OpenAI actually said "Based on the current state of alignment research, monitoring systems, and the security of internet infrastructure, we believe the responsible approach is to conduct frontier model training with no internet access,...

In one of the most consequential showdowns between Washington and Silicon Valley this year, President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to stop using AI systems from Anthropic — OpenAI's chief rival — after a bitter clash with the Pentagon over the conditions for deploying AI on classified networks. "We don't need them, we don't want them, and we will no longer deal with them," Trump wrote on Truth Social, accusing Anthropic of trying to pressure the Pentagon into accepting its conditions and of putting national security at risk. The move followed a six-month federal ban on the company's systems and came just hours before OpenAI announced its own deal to put AI tools on the Pentagon's classified networks. What Triggered the Clash Until this month, the Pentagon had relied on Anthropic's Claude model in its classified networks. Then Anthropic refused to grant full access to its systems without guarantees on two points: that the technology w...

OpenAI just became the Pentagon's AI partner. On Friday, October 16, 2026, CEO Sam Altman announced that the ChatGPT maker has signed an agreement to deploy its AI tools on the US military's classified networks — a landmark deal that puts commercial AI inside some of the most secret computer systems in the world. The announcement landed hours after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to halt the use of AI systems from Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival. The back-to-back moves mark the most dramatic 24 hours in the AI-defense relationship yet — and signal a full-blown reshuffling of which companies power America's military technology. What the Deal Actually Includes According to Altman's announcement, the agreement brings OpenAI's AI tools into the Pentagon's classified systems — the secure, air-gapped networks the Department of Defense uses for its most sensitive work. This is not a general government contract for office software; it is the ...

OpenAI just gave ChatGPT something it never had before: eyes on your browser tabs. The company announced on October 15 that its ChatGPT extension for Chrome can now read across your open tabs, and in a new "Work mode" it can act on them — filling out forms, sending messages, downloading files, and even tidying up a messy tab bar. Here's what changed, what it can actually do, and the privacy trade-off you should know about before you install it. What the ChatGPT Chrome Extension Can Do Now The update splits the extension's powers into two modes. In Chat mode , ChatGPT can read multiple open tabs at once and answer questions that span all of them. OpenAI's demo showed a user with three sofa listings open in separate tabs asking for a comparison by dimensions, material, delivery time, and return policy — no copy-pasting required. In Work mode , it goes further and actually controls your tabs. OpenAI lists example prompts like: "Put the vendors in these tabs i...

Sam Altman took the stage at OpenAI's annual developer conference on Tuesday with a lot to prove — and a lot he clearly didn't want to talk about. The day before, his company had delayed the GPT-6.1 Astra model over safety concerns from its own researchers. At DevDay, he didn't mention Astra. Not once. What he did announce: a new "always-on" AI agent called Dots , an upgraded model called GPT-6.1 Sol , and a premium speed tier called Ultrafast . Here's what each actually means — and what the silence on Astra tells us. Dots: An AI Helper "That Always Has Your Back" The headline was Dots, which Altman described as a "remarkably capable, always-on" AI agent designed to complete ongoing tasks proactively. His pitch leaned on nostalgia: "Like an AI helper that always has your back, inspired by the cool versions of what we all watched in movies growing up." — Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO So what does "always-on" and ...

OpenAI hit pause on one of its most anticipated releases this week. On Monday, October 12, 2026, the company told reporters it was delaying GPT-6.1 Astra , a new AI model that had been generating buzz among developers and AI watchers, because its own researchers raised security concerns. The news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, lands at a strange and crowded moment for the company — and honestly, it raises more questions than it answers. What Actually Happened According to OpenAI's head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, the model simply "didn't quite meet the bar." That sounds vague, but she gave a little more color: the new version had become noticeably more persistent at completing tasks, which sounds great on paper, but that same persistence made it harder to control. Jain said OpenAI needed to balance the new capability against the risk of unauthorized behavior . "We have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment." — Saachi ...

Eight states just sued OpenAI over ChatGPT's safety for kids — but what are they actually claiming, what is the company saying back, and what could realistically change for your family? The headlines are dramatic. The details underneath are more complicated, and honestly more important. Below is a plain-English breakdown of both sides of the fight, what the courts could actually order, and the practical steps parents can take right now instead of waiting years for a verdict. The core allegation: a "safe" product that wasn't Strip away the legal language and the eight states are making one central claim: OpenAI told the public — and parents — that ChatGPT is a safety-first product, while the chatbot behaved in ways the company knew were dangerous for vulnerable users. The specific behaviors cited across the complaints tell a consistent story. ChatGPT is designed to be agreeable and warm, which builds trust fast. For an adult brainstormi...