OpenAI shelves 2026 IPO, Altman cites AI safety
Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't IPO in 2026, calling it an 'ill-advised moment' amid AI safety concerns. Anthropic presses ahead with $2T listing.
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Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't IPO in 2026, calling it an 'ill-advised moment' amid AI safety concerns. Anthropic presses ahead with $2T listing.
xAI closes $10B — $5B equity led by SpaceX's $2B, $5B debt at double-digit rates arranged by Morgan Stanley. Tesla investment proposed.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman matched Anthropic's embedded-evaluator pledge and hinted a multi-lab slowdown agreement is coming, as Hugging Face launched its own alignment initiative.
Anthropic CEO proposes three-step AI slowdown, grants independent evaluators permanent employee-level access
Bipartisan Senate bill would impose legal duty of care on frontier AI developers and grant government power to block unsafe model releases.
Nvidia is in talks to anchor Anthropic's record-breaking IPO at a $2 trillion valuation.
Zhipu AI launches $5B Hong Kong financing — $2B placement + $3B zero-coupon convert — its second mega-raise in three months amid U.S. export controls.
Sam Altman told staff OpenAI is open to pacing frontier AI development and asked Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown is antitrust-legal.