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According to Fortune, OpenAI is considering legal action against Apple due to dissatisfaction with the use and commercialization of ChatGPT after its integration into Siri. They believe that the collaboration has not effectively driven user conversion to ChatGPT's paid subscription, which may involve a breach of contractual expectations.Reports indicate that the two parties initially reached an agreement about two years ago, with Apple enhancing Siri's ability to handle complex questions by integrating ChatGPT, while OpenAI expanded user reach through Apple's ecosystem. However, OpenAI has expressed "disappointment" with the current presentation and traffic-driving effect of ChatGPT within Siri.It is reported that OpenAI's legal team has collaborated with external law firms to evaluate various response options, including potential litigation. Meanwhile, the relationship has become strained, and Apple is exploring further collaboration possibilities with OpenAI's competitors.Analysts believe that the core of the dispute lies in the commercial ownership and traffic distribution issues after AI capabilities are embedded in the platform, specifically whether "functionality is embedded but does not lead to subscription conversion" constitutes a substantial breach of commercial terms. Currently, neither party has publicly responded to the litigation matters.

According to The Information, the IPO process of AI chip company Cerebras Systems has once again attracted market attention, with key beneficiaries including Foundation, well-known venture capital firm Benchmark, and OpenAI.Cerebras has long been seen as a potential competitor to Nvidia, dedicated to developing ultra-large-scale AI chips, but its commercialization process has faced setbacks. The company withdrew its IPO prospectus in 2025, causing its listing plans to stall for a time. However, as the AI infrastructure boom continues to heat up, the market is refocusing on its potential listing value and early investor returns. Early investment firms, including Benchmark, as well as OpenAI, which has a partnership with the company, may gain substantial benefits from Cerebras' future listing.

According to a report by Cai Lian She, OpenAI released a statement regarding the recent "Mini Shai-Hulud" supply chain attack incident targeting the popular open-source library TanStack. After monitoring the malicious attacks on several commonly used npm packages, the security team quickly investigated the internal systems and found no evidence of user data being leaked or accessed illegally.OpenAI pointed out that although its core services were not directly compromised, to ensure the security of local environments, all macOS users using its official applications must complete software updates by June 12, 2026.

On the last day of the evidence-gathering phase of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, a Microsoft executive revealed in court that by June 2026, Microsoft's total investment in OpenAI (including investment commitments, infrastructure, and computing power hosting costs) will exceed $100 billion.Reports indicate that this figure is significantly higher than the previously understood cash investment scale of $13 billion, marking the first disclosure of the overall costs Microsoft has incurred in supporting OpenAI in terms of underlying computing power and infrastructure. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott also confirmed that during the early setup of their first supercomputer, they deployed tens of thousands of GPUs in a single instance.Furthermore, after Microsoft and OpenAI concluded their evidence presentation, Musk's team chose to forgo the rebuttal phase, officially ending the three-week evidence-gathering stage, with the court expected to enter the closing arguments phase on Thursday.

The OpenAI official status page shows that OpenAI is investigating multiple service outages, with the Codex 5.5 engine experiencing a high error rate, particularly affecting free users. All Codex users have also seen an increase in latency for gpt 5.5.In addition, the Realtime API's SIP/WebRTC process has experienced interruptions, which has been officially marked as "under investigation," and the related issues have persisted for several hours. The official website notes that the impact of the outage varies depending on subscription level and the models and features used.

SoftBank Group stated that as of the end of March, the accumulated book profit from its investment in OpenAI was $45 billion. By April 2026, a total of $20 billion in loans had been utilized, primarily for investing in OpenAI, of which $2.5 billion was repaid in that month.

James Comer, the chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Committee and a Republican lawmaker, has written to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, requesting information regarding potential conflicts of interest related to personal investments and OpenAI. The investigation focuses on Altman's extensive personal investment network. Since Altman does not hold equity in OpenAI, his estimated net worth of approximately $3.5 billion primarily comes from his personal investment portfolio, which includes companies like Helion, Stripe, and Reddit.According to a previous report by The Wall Street Journal, Altman had pushed for OpenAI to invest $500 million in the fusion company Helion, while Altman himself has invested at least $375 million in the company. Comer stated that this has raised concerns about whether Altman is using OpenAI to enhance the valuation of his personally held companies. Additionally, attorneys general from states such as Florida, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, West Virginia, and Louisiana have also written to SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, requesting an investigation into whether Altman has engaged in "self-dealing" and serious conflicts of interest.Meanwhile, Altman is set to testify in court on Tuesday and Wednesday in the case where Musk is suing OpenAI. Musk accuses Altman and OpenAI co-founders of violating the original "non-profit" commitment by shifting OpenAI to a profit-making operation. Although the conflict of interest investigation and Musk's lawsuit are independent events, Altman's personal investment issues have been raised multiple times during the trial. OpenAI board chairman Bret Taylor defended Altman in court, stating that he has been "open and transparent" regarding personal investment matters.

According to Bloomberg, Microsoft set a goal in early 2023 planning documents to achieve a return of $92 billion from its early large investment in OpenAI.This information was disclosed during a court hearing on May 11 local time in the federal court in Oakland, California, related to the lawsuit filed by Elon Musk against OpenAI and Microsoft. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated in court that this investment "worked well because we took risks."

OpenAI announced the launch of a new business unit, "OpenAI Deployment Company," focused on helping enterprises deeply integrate AI systems into their core business processes, and has agreed to acquire the AI consulting and engineering firm Tomoro. This acquisition will bring approximately 150 Forward Deployed Engineers and deployment specialists to the deployment company.OpenAI stated that this department will directly assign engineers to work within enterprises, collaborating with management and frontline teams to restructure workflows, build AI production systems, and promote the practical implementation of AI in complex business scenarios. The initial funding scale of the deployment company exceeds $4 billion, with OpenAI as the majority shareholder, TPG leading the investment, and institutions such as Advent, Bain Capital, and Brookfield participating, along with major capital and consulting firms like Goldman Sachs, SoftBank, McKinsey, and Capgemini.OpenAI mentioned that currently, over 1 million enterprises are using its products, and the next phase of enterprise AI competition will shift from "using AI" to "restructuring organizations and business systems around AI."

According to the official announcement, the asset for the second phase of Bitget IPO Prime is preOPAI, a digital token issued on the Solana chain by the regulated issuer Republic, aimed at mirroring the economic performance of OpenAI post-IPO on a 1:1 basis. As a leading consumer-level AI provider globally, OpenAI's official data shows that it has approximately 900 million weekly active users. Its most recent financing round reached $122 billion, with investors including Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, and SoftBank.Bitget IPO Prime adopts a subscription model, allowing users to obtain corresponding subscription quotas based on their account levels. After the token distribution is completed, users can trade in the upcoming spot market; they can also exchange for stock tokens or USDT based on the market price of the underlying company's stock, as entrusted by the issuer to Bitget, after the lock-up period of the preOPAI underlying debt asset ends.IPO Prime Details:• Implied valuation of OpenAI: $898.21 billion• Total subscription amount for IPO Prime: 29,082• Total subscription value: $21,084,450• Subscription price: 1 preOPAI = $725• Investment currencies: USDT or USDGO• Total upper limit of investment pool: $300,000,000• Individual investment range: $100 - $600,000• Investment period: May 12, 16:00 to May 15, 16:00 (UTC+8)• Distribution time: May 15, 16:00 to 20:00 (UTC+8)• Spot trading time: May 15, 22:00 (UTC+8)• Distribution schedule: 30% released on May 15, 30% released on June 15, 40% released on July 15

According to crypto analyst Murphy, Bitget's second phase of IPO Prime will be announced tonight at 18:00.On-chain data shows that preOPAI was minted on May 7 by Republic on the Solana chain, with the first batch of 29,082 tokens entering the project team's custody account. The top-level instruction is Mint_securities, and the calling program is 4X79YR...zMJwr3 (Republic's access token issuance program), with only the final step of distribution remaining before officially launching on Bitget IPO Prime.Based on the on-chain minting data and the previous preSPAX, which was a collaboration between Bitget and Republic, the second phase of IPO Prime is highly likely to be related to an OpenAI project.

According to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI allowed employees to sell up to $30 million in shares in a recent round of financing, becoming one of the early cash-out participants in this wave of artificial intelligence.The report stated that in October last year, more than 600 current and former employees concentrated their share sales, cashing out a total of $6.6 billion; among them, about 75 people sold the maximum amount of $30 million. Employees had previously waited about two years for the opportunity to sell their shares.

SoftBank Group is scaling back a financing plan that used OpenAI equity as collateral, which was originally intended to raise about $10 billion in margin loans, and is now likely to be reduced to around $6 billion.It is reported that some lenders have expressed concerns about the transaction structure and the reliability of OpenAI's valuation as a private company, which has become one of the key factors hindering the progress of the financing. The loan was initially designed to use the OpenAI equity held by SoftBank as collateral, with a term of two years that could be extended by one year, aimed at further expanding its investment layout in the field of artificial intelligence.