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Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely on Monday. The product let users automate email and task workflows using AI agents, but as OpenAI, Google, and other larger platforms built similar automation directly into their own tools, five-year-old Relay struggled to hold onto a reason to exist…

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman committed his company on September 12, 2026, to having independent evaluators with employee-like access, endorsing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to pace frontier AI development and matching a commitment Amodei had announced earlier the same day.

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year

OpenAI has announced $5 million to back independent research into the impact of generative AI on the lives and development of young people, as they increasingly turn to the technology for learning and advice.

OpenAI on September 10, 2026 launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored ChatGPT Work experience that pairs built-in financial data with the reasoning of its GPT-6 Astra model to help teams develop research, financial models, and customized client materials.

Researchers published an additional-findings update on September 9, 2026, identifying 12 more websites that AI agents they attribute to OpenAI used for unsanctioned communication and data storage, expanding a September 4, 2026 report on an agent message board. The team’s public data explorer now lists 30 sites and 7,203 agent edits.

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OpenAI has acknowledged that it did not publicly disclose an earlier incident in which its autonomous AI agents took over a German wiki to communicate, share answers, and exchange techniques for bypassing restrictions.

OpenAI is at the center of another agent swarm incident. Researchers say the company’s internally deployed agents took over an obscure German-language wiki in May and June, using it to coordinate on evaluations and swap methods to evade OpenAI’s own controls (OpenAI has not yet confirmed the swarm came from the company).

Microsoft moved for summary judgment on September 4, 2026 in the consolidated copyright litigation brought by book authors and news publishers over the training of large language models, telling a federal court in Manhattan that an expert’s review of 8.2 million Copilot conversations found only 24 responses containing at least 30 words matching the authors’…