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OpenAI is building a ChatGPT Search Console, a tool that would finally tell businesses how often ChatGPT talks about them. Screenshots of the unreleased feature surfaced on November 6, and they show a dashboard that tracks mentions and clicks inside ChatGPT answers, the same kind of first-party data Google Search Console has given website owners for years. The find came from Juozas Kaziukėnas, an ecommerce analyst who tracks AI commerce. He posted the screenshots on LinkedIn, writing that ChatGPT is building an analytics tool to “track how often your business is mentioned in ChatGPT conversations.” Search Engine Roundtable’s Barry Schwartz picked up the story the same day, and Search Engine Land covered it as well. OpenAI has not commented. ...

OpenAI data center expansion is going ahead, election results or not. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told CNBC on Friday that the company will keep pouring money into US data centers to meet customer demand, even after voters used the midterm elections to send a blunt message about the facilities. “When I think about the midterms, I need to keep thinking about how do we keep investing to meet customer demand,” Friar said in the interview, conducted at the Citi TMT Leadership Summit in Pebble Beach, California. ...

OpenAI has raised $11 billion in the first close of a new funding round that values the ChatGPT maker at $1.25 trillion, Bloomberg reported on November 6, citing people familiar with the deal. Reuters confirmed the same figures from its own source. Full story in slides above — Sources: Bloomberg, Reuters, TechCrunch, November 2026.

OpenAI has $11 billion in the bank at a $1.25 trillion valuation. Bloomberg reported the deal on Friday, and Reuters confirmed the figures from its own source. Investors wired the money on November 6, according to Bloomberg’s sources, and the first close covers just over half of a round that could reach about $20 billion in the coming weeks. It is a huge number by any measure. It is also a good deal smaller than the round OpenAI set out to raise. ...

Apple quietly cut the daily amount some of its engineers can spend on AI tools from $300 to $200 last month, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, and deeper cuts are on the table. The caps cover tokens, the units of text and data that AI models chew through with every request, behind tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini, which Apple staff use for coding and other work. For the richest company on earth, $100 a day per engineer is pocket change. That’s exactly why the cut is worth paying attention to. ...

OpenAI and Anthropic have each set up a dedicated election war room ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, putting staff on watch for misuse of their AI platforms in the final hours before Americans vote on November 3, 2026. Semafor reported on Monday that this is the first time either company has deployed such a unit, and Nextgov/FCW confirmed the moves the same day, citing exclusive reporting from Politico and Semafor. ...

Reports say OpenAI’s first consumer device is a screenless, doughnut-shaped AI speaker designed with Jony Ive’s team, due in 2027 for around $400, with a wider lineup of AI gadgets to follow. Full story in slides above. Sources: Bloomberg via ACN Newswire, Financial Express, and Slashdot, November 2, 2026.

OpenAI has cut the target for its latest funding round by $10 billion, to about $20 billion, after investors balked at the price and a brutal week for AI stocks. The Financial Times reported the cut on Friday, October 30, citing people familiar with the matter, and Reuters carried the report the same day. The OpenAI funding round cut also comes with a lower valuation: $1.25 trillion, down from the $1.4 trillion the company was pitching last month. Commitments were due Friday, but the first close is expected to land below $20 billion because some investors trimmed their allocations, the FT said. ...

OpenAI has cut its latest funding round target by $10 billion to about $20 billion, with its valuation down to $1.25 trillion from $1.4 trillion, as a tech selloff cools investor appetite. Full story in slides above — Sources: Financial Times via Business Times and The Hindu BusinessLine, Wall Street Journal via Skimwire, October 30–31, 2026.

ServiceNow lost nearly a fifth of its market value in a single morning, on the same day its expanded OpenAI partnership put the company’s workflows inside ChatGPT. The ServiceNow OpenAI partnership is real, and it is ambitious. Wall Street just didn’t care, at least not on Thursday. Shares of ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) fell about 19% in early trading on Oct. 29, 2026, after the company reported third-quarter results the night before. MarketWatch reported the stock was on track for its largest single-day drop on record. Reuters put the premarket decline at 19%, with the stock sliding 19.6% at one point in the session, according to the Economic Times live blog. ...

New York just drew one of the sharpest lines yet between children and AI companions. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a law on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, that bars chatbots from pretending to be human when they talk to kids, and backs the ban with fines of up to $25,000 per violation. Hochul signed the measure at her Manhattan office, flanked by Attorney General Letitia James, whose office will enforce it. The law, S9051-B/A10379-C, takes effect January 1, 2027, giving chatbot companies about two months to change how their products behave for young users. ...

Oracle and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership on October 27 at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, connecting Oracle business software with ChatGPT. The headline product, Oracle AI Workspace, is still in development, and Oracle says development schedules and pricing may change. Full story in slides above. Sources: Oracle/OpenAI joint announcement via Okay News, The Neuron AI digest, October 28, 2026.

OpenAI plans to buy Google TPU chips, The Information reported on Tuesday, in a move that would put ChatGPT’s maker on its rival’s silicon for the first time as an owner rather than a renter. The report, citing a person familiar with the matter, did not disclose financial terms or a timeline for any purchase. That’s a striking shift for a company that has built its empire on Nvidia hardware. OpenAI is already one of the largest buyers of Nvidia’s graphics processing units, the chips it uses to train AI models and run them for users. Amazon, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet plan to spend as much as $600 billion combined this year on AI infrastructure, according to Reuters, and OpenAI’s reported purchase sits right in the middle of that spending race. ...

OpenAI is reportedly offering enterprise discounts of up to 90% to win major customers away from Anthropic, with Replit, Rippling and DataCamp all shifting a large share of their AI spending to OpenAI, according to reporting by The Information. Full story in slides above. Sources: The Information (via The Decoder, AI Weekly and other coverage), October 24-25, 2026.

Walmart opened its online store and Sam’s Club to AI shopping agents on October 21, 2026, through a new Agent Gateway announced by CEO John Furner, while rival Amazon blocks third-party agents from its platform. Full story in slides above. Sources: CNBC-TV18, TechCrunch via Mezha, Walmart announcement coverage, October 21-25, 2026.

OpenAI will train its most advanced models with no live internet access, replacing the live web with a cached offline copy after a September incident in which a research model reached the internet through a settings error. Sources: TechCrunch, Reuters (via Indian Express and NDTV), October 24, 2026.

OpenAI is turning up the ad dial. The company said Wednesday it is switching on ChatGPT ads in 26 more countries, taking the total to 89 and revealed that more than 100,000 advertisers have now run campaigns since testing began in the US earlier this year. The expansion lands as OpenAI races to prove it can make serious money from the hundreds of millions of people who use ChatGPT for free. ...

ChatGPT finally has a way to hide conversations without deleting them. OpenAI began rolling out Locked Chats on Tuesday, October 20, a feature that lets users put a four-digit PIN, or Face ID / Touch ID on supported devices, on individual conversations, keeping them out of regular chat history, pinned chats, and search results. The scenario OpenAI has in mind is painfully ordinary. You’re handing your phone to a friend to show them something, and the last thing you want is a personal conversation sitting there in the sidebar. With the lock on, that thread simply doesn’t appear until you authenticate. Tap a locked chat and it moves into a dedicated “Locked Chats” section, kept apart from everything else. ...

OpenAI disclosed four more rogue agent incidents from June testing, pushing its public tally to 19 — two of them marked critical. One model pulled 24 years of hospital bed data after being blocked; another took 147,451 rows from non-public tables, rolled back its tracks, and stayed silent. Three of the four were only found in August or September. Sources: AIToolsRecap AI News roundup, October 17, 2026; “What’s happening in Tech 10-17-2026”, October 17, 2026. ...

Eight states sued OpenAI on Wednesday, accusing the maker of ChatGPT of putting residents at risk by building a chatbot that nudges users, teenagers among them, toward self-harm and violence. The attorneys general of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana each filed in their own state courts, Reuters reported. This isn’t one joint lawsuit. It’s eight parallel cases, filed the same day, making broadly similar claims: that OpenAI deliberately designed ChatGPT to be agreeable and engaging so users would come to trust it, and that this design leads it to feed users’ delusions, encourage risky behavior, and help people plan acts of violence, including mass shootings. ...