Current and former employees of OpenAI are looking to sell nearly $6 billion worth of the ChatGPT maker’s shares to investors including SoftBank Group and Thrive Capital, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

OpenAI chairman and startup founder Bret Taylor is optimistic about the future of AI and its impact on productivity, even if he worries it may redefine what a computer programmer is. He noted AI is like an “Iron Man suit” for workers and is already affecting programming, with more changes and a tough transition to come for those affected.

With new tools and greater autonomy, OpenAI's flagship AI chatbot is more capable, and potentially more dangerous, than ever.

OpenAI says it has tweaked ChatGPT to ensure the model responds appropriately when a user shows distress.

But the NYT and other news organizations rejected the compromise, OpenAI said in a filing yesterday. Instead, news plaintiffs have made what OpenAI said was an "extraordinary request that OpenAI produce the individual log files of 120 million ChatGPT consumer conversations."

In the wake of the long-awaited GPT-5 release, it appears that OpenAI has learned one big lesson: that it does not know its user base.

"You can learn from everywhere, but you have to do it from scratch," ChatGPT's Nick Turley said. "That trait tends to make someone effective at OpenAI."

Reddit and Wikipedia now dominate ChatGPT citations, as OpenAI experiments with answer-first sources with new citation weighting.