OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that leadership wants OpenAI, the company, to focus. Seems like a plain old business strategy story. Nope! First, in more prosaic terms, the all-hands and …

Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic

The memo directly mentioned OpenAI’s intensifying competition with Anthropic.

OpenAI connects the Dots

With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents

OpenAI Rewrites Contract, Anthropic Returns to Negotiate—The Chaos Continues

In less than a week, the Pentagon blacklisted an AI company for having ethics, declared it a supply chain risk, watched its preferred replacement face a massive user revolt, and then sat down to am…

OpenAI Just Published an Absolutely Bizarre Blog Post

OpenAI published a blog post emphasizing its commitment to safety and harm mitigation. Its promises read as proactive — but are anything but.

Statements — AHM

Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, OpenAI – which is currently defending lawsuits against accusations of illegal plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trademark dilution – released a repository of manuscripts purporting to contain solutions to a number of high-profile problems in mathematics.

OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct

Nine troubling new reports in seven days

Reflections on OpenAI

I left OpenAI three weeks ago. I had joined the company back in May 2024.

OpenAI to release open-source model as AI economics force strategic shift

OpenAI plans to release its first open-weight AI model since 2019 as economic pressures mount from competitors like DeepSeek and Meta, marking a significant strategic reversal for the company behind ChatGPT.

How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans

OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experie

6 steps to perfecting an open source product strategy

The future of building great products lies in breaking down the boundaries between business and technical thinking.

The Product Picnic

Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

OpenAI flags concerning new AI behavior and vows to track it more closely

OpenAI has disclosed six reports on unexpected or concerning behavior in artificial-intelligence models

It’s not just the vibes that are off inside OpenAI.

It’s the numbers, too, according to a new Wall Street Journal report, which echoes The Information’s claim earlier this month that CFO Sarah Friar has expressed concern about its IPO plans and CEO Sam Altman’s datacenter spending. It also says the company “missed an internal goal of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of last year,” and other revenue targets. [Link: The vibes are off at OpenAI | https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/908513/the-vibes-are-off-at-openai | The Verge]

OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO

The company’s CFO and board have questioned the wisdom of massive data-center spending in the face of slowing growth.