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OpenAI
US AI research company, creator of ChatGPT; primary demand driver for global AI infrastructure spending.
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#16 16 Sept
Mentioned in: Mistral puts its models into Firefox
European Tech Sovereignty#15 14 Sept
Stargate and Atlas top Argentina data-centre pipeline
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#15 24 Aug
Mentioned in: Mistral to explore Saudi data centres
European Tech Sovereignty#13 12 Aug
Mentioned in: Nebius takes AI capacity in Newport
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#13 11 Aug
Mentioned in: Uruguay's Antel builds a $70m AI centre
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#19 6 Aug
Mentioned in: A Coruna cuts may double to 160 jobs
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 2 Aug
AI Office gains enforcement powers in August
European Tech Sovereignty#1 2 Aug
#11 31 Jul
Mentioned in: Marking code draws 190, none of them TV
Media's AI Pivot#12 29 Jul
referenced prior example of UK power costs
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Mentioned in: Ofgem puts a price on the grid queue#13 21 Jul
Mentioned in: Samsung in talks to anchor Mistral at €20bn valuation
European Tech Sovereignty#18 20 Jul
Spent USD1.2 million on federal lobbying, up almost 18%
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Anthropic now outspends Nvidia in Washington#11 15 Jul
Mentioned in: New Mexico vetoes Jupiter gas pipeline
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#11 14 Jul
Co-signed a warning on frontier-model lab technique
Pandemics and Biosecurity: Mentioned in: Britain edges DNA screening into law#17 14 Jul
Mentioned in: Goldman cut 2% and refused the AI excuse
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#16 2 Jul
Proposed a 5% US government equity stake
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: OpenAI offers US a 5% stake, $42.6bn#15 25 Jun
Leaned toward delaying its IPO to 2027 rather than cut its roughly $1tn valuation target
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: OpenAI holds $1tn, slips IPO to 2027#14 18 Jun
Continued public sale of GPT-5.5 despite Anthropic's claim of identical jailbreak vulnerability
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Anthropic AI ban enters its second week#7 18 Jun
Mentioned in: Penske folds Vox titles into PMX
Media's AI Pivot#7 16 Jun
Mentioned in: AI news use rises as trust stays low
Media's AI Pivot#6 15 Jun
Named as a primary target of MOW's £500-per-article scraping charge alongside Google Gemini and Claude
Media's AI Pivot: Publishers bill AI £500 a piece#13 12 Jun
Continued selling GPT-5.5 after Anthropic models were suspended
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Washington pulls a live AI model#6 12 Jun
Mentioned in: Lionsgate deepens its bet on Runway
Media's AI Pivot#10 12 Jun
Mentioned in: Mistral nears €20bn in funding talks
European Tech Sovereignty#13 9 Jun
Filed confidential S-1 draft around 22 May; confirmed publicly 9 June; targeting September listing
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: OpenAI heads to market losing money#8 8 Jun
Mentioned in: UK pledges £1.1bn AI hardware plan
European Tech Sovereignty#7 3 Jun
Mentioned in: Apoha bets £26.7m on lab data
UK Startups and Innovation#12 2 Jun
AI super PACs spend $150m on primaries
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#10 1 Jun
Mentioned in: EU ownership rule meets its loophole
European Tech Sovereignty#4 1 Jun
Mentioned in: Netflix rents Runway, builds its own
Media's AI Pivot#6 30 May
Mentioned in: SoftBank bets €75bn on France
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#10 20 May
Signed parallel multi-year data deal with Intuit for tax and financial training data
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Intuit cuts 3,000, licenses its data#6 19 May
Mentioned in: Mistral buys into the industrial stack
European Tech Sovereignty#3 18 May
Mentioned in: Judge probes $1.5bn Anthropic class deal
Media's AI Pivot#3 15 May
Shut its Sora video platform in March 2026 at ~$1m/day compute cost
Media's AI Pivot: Runway raises to $5.3bn as a world model#2 15 May
Mentioned in: Netflix confirms INKubator, no vendor named
Media's AI Pivot#2 14 May
Mentioned in: Alsup withholds approval on Anthropic $1.5bn
Media's AI Pivot#3 14 May
Mentioned in: ITV nears £1.6bn sale into Sky's stack
Media's AI Pivot#3 13 May
Mentioned in: UK Gate 2 grid offers begin issuing
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#1 8 May
News Corp names $1.5bn Anthropic settlement
Media's AI Pivot#4 7 May
Mentioned in: Three EU-US deadlines collide in 9 days
European Tech Sovereignty#4 7 May
Mentioned in: Onwurah: DSIT has no coherent strategy
European Tech Sovereignty#5 7 May
Mentioned in: AI Omnibus deal splits enforcement into two speeds
European Tech Sovereignty#2 6 May
Mentioned in: Finland tops 2026 data centre siting ranking
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#9 6 May
Mentioned in: GPT-5.5 clears 32-step attack chain; two models in five days
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 6 May
Discontinued Sora consumer video product on 26 April 2026, triggering Disney's $1bn investment exit
Media's AI Pivot: Disney declares AI strategy, drops $1bn OpenAI stake#8 1 May
AISI: GPT-5.5 matches Mythos on 32-step attack
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#8 1 May
Mentioned in: Cboe cuts 20% on record-revenue day
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#8 30 Apr
Mentioned in: Apple R&D up 33% after Tim Cook announces exit
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#3 29 Apr
Mentioned in: Equinix runs 46 builds, buys 800 MW Nordic
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#5 29 Apr
Mentioned in: Mistral ships Le Chat Enterprise and Medium 3.5
European Tech Sovereignty#3 29 Apr
Mentioned in: Hyperscalers post record $110.75bn Q1 capex
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#3 28 Apr
Compressed compute commitment by 57%, declined Crusoe lease, suspended UK and Norway sites
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: OpenAI cuts compute target by $800bn#3 28 Apr
Mentioned in: Dex closes $5.3m matching ML talent
UK Startups and Innovation#2 27 Apr
Cited UK industrial electricity as more than four times US/Nordic rates as Cobalt Park pause driver
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: OpenAI puts a number on UK electricity gap#4 24 Apr
Mentioned in: Schwarz triangle closes at $20bn merger
European Tech Sovereignty#1 23 Apr
Paused planned UK Stargate data centre at Cobalt Park citing regulatory environment
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: OpenAI pauses Cobalt Park Stargate site#3 16 Apr
Mentioned in: Kendall names seven infrastructure bets for £500m Sovereign AI Unit
European Tech Sovereignty#2 16 Apr
Mentioned in: DMA orders Google to open search data
European Tech Sovereignty#2 16 Apr
Mentioned in: UK names first Sovereign AI investees
European Tech Sovereignty#2 16 Apr
European Tech Sovereignty · source event
#6 14 Apr
AI industry raises $125M v. regulators
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#2 14 Apr
Mentioned in: UK Q1 VC hits $7.8bn, Nscale dwarfs rest
UK Startups and Innovation#2 13 Apr
Confirmed move to first permanent London office with capacity to more than double headcount
European Tech Sovereignty: OpenAI takes first permanent London base#3 13 Apr
Signed 88,500 sq ft King's Cross lease for 500+ staff and paused Stargate UK citing electricity costs
European Tech Sovereignty: OpenAI takes 88,500 sq ft in London, pauses Stargate UK#1 10 Apr
Mentioned in: Cohere and Aleph Alpha in merger talks
European Tech Sovereignty#6 1 Apr
Iran names Stargate AI centres as targets
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 1 Apr
Mentioned in: Reach signs AWS pay-per-usage AI licensing deal
Media's AI Pivot#1 1 Apr
Co-launched Stargate US programme at $500 billion headline with only $100 billion committed
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Stargate US: $500B headline, 1.2 GW operational#1 1 Apr
Mentioned in: Blackstone £10B Blyth, Amazon €33.7B EU
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#6 1 Apr
#1 30 Mar
Mentioned in: Mistral raises $830m debt for GPU build
European Tech Sovereignty#1 17 Mar
Cited as NYT NewsGuild demanded human oversight of AI in negotiations
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: NYT union draws the line on AI content#1 17 Mar
Cited in reporting on $650-690 billion AI infrastructure spend by US tech
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Big Five to spend $650bn on AI in 2026#1 4 Mar
Named alongside Oracle's thousands of planned job cuts in AI coverage
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Oracle may cut up to 30,000 jobs#3 3 Mar
Mentioned in: Aikido confirms Norway floating-wind compute pilot
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#14 1 Mar
Mentioned in: The AI layoffs nobody is counting
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 1 Mar
Acquired Promptfoo to fold prompt-injection defence into its Frontier platform
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: Google closes $32bn Wiz deal; 38 M&A#1 1 Mar
Mentioned in: Mistral CEO proposes EU-wide AI levy
European Tech Sovereignty#1 1 Mar
“proposed levy disproportionately affecting”
European Tech Sovereignty · source event
#1 1 Mar
#1 27 Feb
Mentioned in: UK queue: 50 GW DC vs 45 GW peak demand
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#1 1 Feb
Mentioned in: European sovereign cloud spend to hit $23bn by 2027
European Tech Sovereignty#1 1 Jan