Entity

OpenAI

The AI lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT model family.

As of 21 Oct 2026Last evidence 21 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • The AI model race

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 20 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device appears to have Saudi backing, US prosecutors say

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini Prices in Australia (AUD, incl. GST)

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • World ID for Agents: Sam Altman’s Startup Targets AI Fraud

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 16 events and claims involving OpenAI

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 178 mentions on 21 Oct 2026, against 255 on 29 Sept 2026 (-30%).
  • State Last recorded change: coverage state went from rising to steady on 17 Oct 2026 (1 change recorded since 11 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 20 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will OpenAI IPO by December 31 2026?” moved from 7% to 5% Yes since 6 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

5,656 documents · 525 publishers · 8% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 21 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.08: about 92% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside OpenAI

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

AIAnthropicGoogleAI agentsMetaNvidiaChinaMicrosoft
  • AI · 4,858 shared documents
  • Anthropic · 2,972 shared documents
  • Google · 1,673 shared documents
  • AI agents · 1,182 shared documents
  • Meta · 1,173 shared documents
  • Nvidia · 1,088 shared documents
  • AI models · 1,024 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • China · 1,023 shared documents
  • Microsoft · 998 shared documents
  • AI companies · 804 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 178 mentions on 21 Oct 2026 with 255 on 29 Sept 2026 (-30%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +212% from 6 Sept 2026 to 21 Oct 2026, between 45 and 316 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions OpenAI, day by day.

Market price, cited

5% Yes

priced 20 Oct 2026 · relation: subject of the question

the market: 7% → 5% Yes (-2pts, from 6 Sept 2026 to 20 Oct 2026)

on “Will OpenAI IPO by December 31 2026?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about OpenAI

“Will OpenAI IPO by December 31 2026?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

On the desk: AI & Compute Desk

For developers

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Events involving OpenAI

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • The AI model race

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 20 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device appears to have Saudi backing, US prosecutors say

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini Prices in Australia (AUD, incl. GST)

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • World ID for Agents: Sam Altman’s Startup Targets AI Fraud

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • OpenAI Faces Lawsuits, Subpoenas and EU Scrutiny in a Single Week

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • AI tools like ChatGPT opening new opportunities for businesses: Sunil Bharti Mittal

    Reported claim · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    could not check

  • OpenAI models bypass security, access crypto wallet in June 2026 incidents

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • OpenAI’s rogue crypto agent spent funds without permission, exposing risks to autonomous wallets

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • OpenAI says research model spent another wallet’s testnet ETH without authorization on coding task

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • States sue AI giant OpenAI, saying its popular chatbot is hurting children and deceiving adults

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • FTC Issues Subpoenas to OpenAI, Anthropic Following AI Safety Issues

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Funding round: OpenAI

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 4 Oct 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • IPO & listing: OpenAI & OpenAI ipo

    Registered event · reported 2 Sept 2026 to 4 Oct 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • IPO & listing: OpenAI

    Registered event · reported 2 Sept 2026 to 8 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

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OpenAI

Entity.

Evidence
5,656 documents · 525 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 3 Mar 2026, last seen 21 Oct 2026
Measured
8% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
21 Oct 2026
27 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (5)

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names OpenAI, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about OpenAI

Markets whose question is about OpenAI or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to OpenAI and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

  • 17 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 2 Oct 2026

1 change recorded since 11 Oct 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 21 Oct 2026.