If OpenAI has an initial public offering later this year or next year, the University of Michigan's initial $20 million investment in the company could be worth $2 billion.
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In brief The OpenAI Deployment Company launches with more than $4 billion in committed capital and a $10 billion valuation, backed by 19 firms. OpenAI has agreed to acquire Tomoro, a U.K.-based AI consulting firm, to bring approximately 150 forward deployed engineers to the new entity from day one. The announcement came just after Anthropic unveiled a similar $1.5 billion venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman. OpenAI has launched the OpenAI Deployment Company, a new majority-owned subsidiary designed to embed specialized engineers directly inside enterprises working on complex, high-stakes AI projects. The company enters with more than $4 billion in initial investment—and a $10 billion valuation—backed by 19 firms including TPG, Goldman Sachs, SoftBank, Capgemini, and McKinsey & Company. The model is borrowed directly from Palantir’s playbook: Forward
The lawsuit against OpenAI could intensify scrutiny on AI safety protocols, potentially influencing future regulations and legal frameworks.
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OpenAI's enterprise unit could accelerate AI integration in businesses, potentially transforming operations and boosting productivity globally.
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A malicious Hugging Face repository posing as an OpenAI release delivered infostealer malware to Windows systems and logged 244,000 downloads before being removed, raising fresh concerns about how enterprises source and validate AI models from public repositories.
The repository, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, impersonated OpenAI’s legitimate Privacy Filter release, copied its model card almost word-for-word, and included a malicious loader.py file that fetched and executed credential-stealing malware on Windows hosts, AI security firm HiddenLayer said in a research advisory.
“The repository reached the #1 trending position on Hugging Face with approximately 244K downloads and 667 likes in under 18 hours, numbers that were almost certainly artificially inflated to make the repository appear legitimate,” the advisory added.
The incident highlights growing concerns that public AI model registries are emerging as a new software supply-chain risk for enterprises, particularly as developers
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In brief A federal lawsuit alleges that OpenAI’s ChatGPT provided firearms guidance and tactical advice to the gunman in the April 2025 Florida State University mass shooting that killed multiple victims. The family claims ChatGPT failed to detect threat indicators despite extensive conversations about weapons, mass shootings, and attack planning methods. Florida’s Attorney General has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI’s role in the incident. Vandana Joshi, whose husband was killed in the April 2025 Florida State University mass shooting, filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI Sunday, alleging that ChatGPT enabled the attack by providing firearms guidance and tactical advice to the shooter. The lawsuit alleges Phoenix Ikner shared images of firearms with ChatGPT and received instructions on how to use them in the weeks before April 17, 2025. According
