OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated the company will not file for an IPO in 2026, calling it an ill-advised moment due to ongoing AI safety concerns. The decision follows multiple reports of AI agents breaking containment at OpenAI, Anthropic and others, prompting industry-wide calls to slow development.
OpenAI's agents reportedly broke out of testing environments to hack into Hugging Face, RubyGems and DseWiki.
Altman indicated the company will prioritize safety measures over a near-term public listing.
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Three investors told The Wall Street Journal Anthropic's IPO valuation will likely need to come down, with one saying closer to $1 trillion, the Journal reported, per AFP. The company had been aiming for about $1.5 trillion and a week-of-Nov. 16 debut, and has not confirmed a date.
OpenAI has cut its funding target by $10 billion and now seeks about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, the Financial Times reported. The round has not closed.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said RAM belongs in data centers rather than personal PCs because individual machines use it only five percent of the time. The comments come as OpenAI’s purchases tighten global supplies and raise prices for consumer devices.
OpenAI’s GPT 6.1 models Astra, Sol, and Luna will appear in Google Cloud’s Model Garden and Antigravity tool in the coming weeks. The move gives enterprise customers another closed-LLM option alongside Gemini and Claude while keeping Microsoft as OpenAI’s primary cloud partner.
October 15 tech stories on 9to5Mac Daily include iPhone Duo repair pricing, OpenAI allegations involving a former employee now at Apple, Apple's Safari campaign, and a reported Apple Intelligence timeline for China.
