OpenAI
OpenAI is a San Francisco AI lab, the maker of ChatGPT, the GPT model family and the Sora video generator. Its releases set the pace for the entire industry, and its partnership with Microsoft puts its models inside Copilot and Azure. This page gathers all our coverage of OpenAI: product launches, research and company news.
Mercor eyes a $20 billion valuation despite security incident
Three-year-old startup Mercor has received a term sheet for an investment valuing it at $20 billion. This doubles the company’s valuation and comes several months…
SAMPA: Whisper-Based System for Portuguese Speech Prosody Boundary Detection
Researchers presented SAMPA — a Whisper-based system for automatically detecting prosodic boundaries in Brazilian Portuguese speech with F1 accuracy of 0.731.
SK Hynix Raises $26.5B in Largest IPO Powered by AI Boom
South Korean SK Hynix completed its NASDAQ listing, raising a record $26.5B thanks to global demand for memory chips for AI data centers.
AI Agent for Business: How Lyzr Raised $100M Using Its Own Agent
Samsung GAIA: An AI accelerator for mass-market PCs
Sovereign AI: USA explores government stakes in OpenAI
SmolVLM2-2.2B for local video summarization on consumer GPU
Yidao Information Projects 1792% Profit Growth Thanks to AIPC and AIOT
Chinese company Yidao Information expects an 18-fold increase in net profit in the first half of 2026 due to the popularity of AI-integrated PCs and IoT devices.
A trilogy on GEO — optimization for ChatGPT, Claude, and other neural networks has been published
A trilogy on GEO has been published on Habr: the expert argues that content optimization for ChatGPT and Claude is not an extension of SEO, but a new branch of…
OpenAI AI solved every AtCoder problem — outperforming the world’s best programmers
Zhipu AI's GLM 5.2 replaced Claude Opus 4.8 at Databricks at 34% lower cost
OpenAI finds critical errors in popular SWE-Bench Pro benchmark
OpenAI adds simultaneous listening and speaking to voice mode for translation
OpenAI shuts down the Atlas browser less than a year into development
Atlas launched in October 2025, but the company announced the project's shutdown in August 2026, shifting to integrating its features into ChatGPT Work.
Google added a label for AI-generated ads in Search
On July 9, 2026, Google added a visible label in My Ad Center for ads created or edited with artificial intelligence — so far in some regions.