OpenAI

Users vote with their thumbs. Last weekend, they pressed delete. ChatGPT mobile uninstalls in the U.S. surged 295% day-over-day on Saturday, February 28, according to Sensor Tower data. For context, ChatGPT’s typical daily uninstall fluctuation averaged about 9% over the past month. This wasn’t noise. This was a consumer revolt. The trigger: OpenAI signed a deal with the Department of Defense — now officially rebranded as the Department of War under the Trump administration — to deploy AI models in classified military environments. The timing was brutal. The deal landed hours after the government blacklisted rival Anthropic for refusing to sign a similar agreement without safety guardrails. ...

The largest private investment in the history of technology just happened. Not the history of AI — the history of technology. OpenAI raised $110 billion in a single round, valued at $840 billion post-money. The investors: Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B). Three companies that together own the entire AI supply chain from silicon to cloud. This isn’t venture capital anymore. This is nation-state money flowing into a single company. ...

He spent 12 hours a day talking to ChatGPT. He believed he could hear “atmospheric electricity.” Days after quitting the chatbot cold turkey, Joe Ceccanti jumped from a railway overpass in Oregon. He was 48, had no history of depression, and smiled at rail yard workers seconds before he died. His wife doesn’t blame mental illness. She blames the AI. This isn’t a fringe story anymore. A devastating Guardian investigation published this weekend — combined with a new study from Aarhus University and OpenAI’s own quiet admission that ChatGPT causes psychiatric harm — has thrust “chatbot psychosis” into the center of one of the most urgent conversations in tech. ...

On February 27, 2026, the Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic — banned it from every federal contract — for refusing to let the Pentagon use its AI without restrictions on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. That same evening, Sam Altman posted on X that OpenAI had just signed a deal to deploy its models on the Pentagon’s classified network. Hours earlier, OpenAI had closed the largest private funding round in history: $110 billion. ...

On Friday, the President of the United States declared war — not with missiles, but with procurement orders — against one of America’s leading AI companies. The crime? Anthropic told the Pentagon “no.” No to mass surveillance of Americans. No to fully autonomous weapons. And for that act of corporate conscience, Anthropic is now being treated like a foreign adversary. The Ultimatum The conflict had been building for months. Anthropic held government AI contracts since 2024 — it was the first advanced AI company deployed in federal agencies. But it had two red lines: no mass surveillance, no autonomous weapons. ...

Let that number sink in. One hundred and ten billion dollars. Not a country’s GDP — though it’s close to a few. Not a public company’s market cap. That’s the amount of money OpenAI just raised in a single private funding round. On Friday, OpenAI announced the largest private funding round in history — a jaw-dropping $110 billion raise that values the ChatGPT maker at $730 billion pre-money. The round is anchored by three of the biggest names in tech: Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B). And the round isn’t even closed yet. ...

The AI talent wars just opened a major new front. OpenAI announced Thursday that London will become its largest research hub outside the United States — a move that puts it on a direct collision course with Google DeepMind in one of the world’s richest pools of AI talent. This isn’t about opening a satellite office. It’s about who gets to build the future of AI, and where. From 30 Researchers to a Core Research Mandate OpenAI currently has about 30 researchers in London, a presence it established in 2023. The company won’t say how many new hires it plans or how much it’s investing. What it will say is that London researchers will “own key components of OpenAI’s frontier model development” — specifically safety, evaluation, alignment, and reliability. ...

Forget the chatbot wars. The biggest AI story developing right now isn’t about benchmark scores — it’s about where AI is going to live. Within five days, we learned that Apple is fast-tracking three AI wearables simultaneously, OpenAI has over 200 people building hardware with Jony Ive, and Meta is expanding its already-successful Ray-Ban smart glasses globally. Snap is even spinning its AR glasses into a standalone company. This isn’t coincidence. This is the starting gun of the AI hardware race. ...

The number that broke the internet this week: $30 billion. That’s how much Nvidia — the world’s most valuable company — is about to pour into OpenAI’s latest mega funding round. But the headline number isn’t the story. What happened before this deal, and what it reveals about AI’s increasingly tangled power structure — that’s the story. The $100 Billion Deal That Died Rewind to September 2025. Nvidia and OpenAI announced a blockbuster: Nvidia would invest up to $100 billion to support OpenAI’s chip deployment across massive data centers. Stock soared. AI’s ultimate power couple was born. ...

A solo developer vibe-codes an AI assistant. It goes viral. Anthropic sends a cease-and-desist over the name. He rebrands — twice. Within a month, OpenAI hires him to “drive the next generation of personal agents.” Peter Steinberger’s journey from hobbyist tinkerer to OpenAI employee is the most 2026 story imaginable. But beneath the speed-run narrative, his move tells us something important about where the entire AI industry is heading. From Side Project to Industry Shaker OpenClaw — originally called Clawdbot, then Moltbot — is an AI assistant that actually does things. Not just answers questions. It manages calendars, books flights, sends messages, and even interacts with other AI assistants on what became a bizarre and delightful AI social network. ...