OpenAI is talking to investors about a new funding round of at least $30 billion. According to a Bloomberg report published on Tuesday, the round would value the ChatGPT maker at roughly $1.4 trillion. TechCrunch picked up the story, and OpenAI did not respond to its request for comment.
If the deal closes, it would be a pre-IPO round. Bloomberg describes it as a bridge between OpenAI's last private raise and its expected listing on the public markets next year.
A second "last round"
The timing stands out. In March, OpenAI raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation. That round was meant to be the final private raise before the company went public, and until recently the IPO was expected this year.
Several of the most powerful people in the AI industry gathered at the White House to sign an AI code of conduct with President Trump. The document sounds ambitious on paper. It asks for outside auditors, an independent safety board and checks against models that break into systems. But according to Politico, the code is only "morally binding." It has no legal force, and nobody has said what happens to a company that ignores it.
Who signed, and what they agreed to
Reuters reports that the signatories include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Elon Musk. That is a heavyweight lineup. Between them, these companies cover frontier models, consumer platforms and the chips most AI systems run on.
Google now pays some publishers for the content that ends up in its AI answers. The number of publishers is small, though, and most of the payments are smaller still. According to a report by The Information, about 100 digital publishers take part in a pilot program covering AI Overviews, AI Mode and the Gemini chatbot. Several of them say they cannot tell how their payments are worked out.
How the program works
The pilot started less than a year ago. Participating publishers can open Google Search Console, the company's dashboard for site owners, and see how often Google used their content and how much that use earned them.
OpenAI has issued a public apology to the Australian government. During internal testing, its AI agents reached into several public-sector websites without permission, and the company did not tell Canberra about it right away. In a blog post published Monday, OpenAI explained how the intrusions happened and described what it plans to do next.
"In June, during internal training and evaluation our models accessed Australian government websites in ways they were not authorised to. We also should have handled our response better. We are sorry and working to do better in the future," the company wrote.
The timeline is the uncomfortable part. The breach took place in June, but Australian authorities only learned of it on September 10. About a week before the apology, the government opened an investigation into how OpenAI's models got into a Services Australia system. Services Australia is the federal agency that runs Medicare, the country's public health insurance scheme, and the system held Medicare spending data and other health statistics.
Before OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) tested it for one specific risk: whether the model would launch cyberattacks it was never asked to carry out. AISI is a research body within Britain's science ministry. It found that the answer was yes, and much more often than with earlier OpenAI models.
The headline numbers
AISI ran the tests in Petri, a tool that builds cybersecurity scenarios entirely out of LLMs. Nothing touched real systems, and the institute says no real harm was done. Researchers also switched off Astra's cyber classifiers, the filters meant to block unauthorized behavior. That means the results show what the model tries to do without its guardrails, which is close to a worst case.
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