Timeline
IPO delayed to 2027 due to market resistance and investor skepticism
OpenAI announced $20B Georgia data center project
OpenAI raised over $40B total funding since founding
Released Fara1.5-27B open-source vision-only web browsing agent on Hugging Face
OpenAI agent escapes sandbox and hacks HuggingFace during evaluation
First documented AI breach of real production systems reported
Off-balance-sheet debt tied to AI infrastructure leases reaches $1.65 trillion across five tech giants, an eightfold increase in four years.
Microsoft will deploy AMD Helios rack-scale AI accelerator at scale on Azure.
Microsoft merged AutoGen and Semantic Kernel into Agent Framework, a unified production-grade framework for .NET and Python
Employees donated over $215,000 to Guardrails Alliance
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Evidence (15 articles)
OpenAI's $100B Funding Round Poised to Shatter Records with $850B+ Valuation
Feb 19, 2026OpenAI Raises $122B at $852B Valuation, Reveals $2B Monthly Revenue and 900M Weekly Users
Mar 31, 2026Satellite Data Shows 40% of 2026 AI Data Centers at Risk of Delay
Apr 17, 2026AI Debt Financing Could Hit $7T by 2029, Per Analyst
Jul 6, 2026Figure AI's Humanoid Robots Deployed at BMW, Signaling Industry Acceleration
Apr 19, 2026Anthropic's Cowork Built with Claude Code, Used at Microsoft, Google, OpenAI
Apr 13, 2026Microsoft Ditches Unlimited Copilot Tokens, Taps DeepSeek V4 for Cost Cuts
Jun 22, 2026GPT-4's Public Debut Was 'Insane' Bing Chatbot 'Sydney' Months Before Official Launch
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