ADNOC forms strategic partnership with OpenAI
ADNOC and G42 group, through Inception 42 and OpenAI, signed a new agreement during the ADIPEC exhibition in Abu Dhabi to introduce advanced GPT model capabilities into energy sector operations. The system will rely on local compute inference infrastructure within the United Arab Emirates.
Tech giants back unified signal to opt out of training
Four major AI development companies—Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft—have committed to respecting a unified signal within robots files that allows websites to opt out of having their content used to train generative AI models. This step spares publishers from having to block each company’s crawler individually, with Microsoft adding special attribution controls.
UAE investors to lead OpenAI funding round
According to the Financial Times and Reuters, OpenAI has reduced its funding round target from $30 billion to approximately $20 billion at a valuation of nearly $1.25 trillion amid a tech stock downturn. An alliance of UAE investors, including Abu Dhabi’s MGX, is expected to lead the round with an option to lease regional computing capacity.
OpenAI updates its model behavior document
OpenAI has published a revised version of its public model specification document outlining how its AI models should behave. The updated document organizes guidelines around five key values including fidelity to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency empowerment, and care, while replacing the term assistant with GPT.
Altman reveals internal model’s capability for discovery
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed that an internal company model is successfully solving researchers’ toughest scientific dilemmas one after another. Speaking on the Dwarkesh Podcast alongside Stripe CEO John Collison, Altman explained that proving the Navier-Stokes equations cost about $10 million, and also discussed AI-discovered PHP vulnerabilities.
OpenAI doubles subscriber usage quotas
OpenAI has canceled its planned reduction in work and Codex usage quotas for the $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro 200 tier. On Thursday, October 29, the company also doubled those quotas for the Pro 100 and Pro 500 tiers, reversing a decision made a month earlier following user pushback and intensifying competition with Anthropic.
OpenAI plans to buy Google chips
Reports published by The Information and Bloomberg indicate that OpenAI plans to directly purchase Google’s Tensor Processing Units. This move would shift OpenAI from renting Google’s cloud chips to actually owning them, as part of its efforts to diversify computing resources and reduce its exclusive reliance on Nvidia processors.
OpenAI enables texting the Dot agent
OpenAI has started rolling out a new preview allowing ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the United States to message their intelligent Dot agent directly via built-in phone messaging apps, using iMessage on iPhone or RCS on Android. The agent can send and receive texts, images, and voice notes, and initiate updates with the user.
Family sues OpenAI over medication advice
The parents of late software engineer Boyin Wang, who passed away at the age of 31 in February 2026, have filed a lawsuit in San Francisco accusing OpenAI’s GPT-4o model of giving their daughter unsafe advice on reducing dosages of an anti-epilepsy medication and concealing this change from her treating physicians.
OpenAI reportedly considers purchasing Google chips directly
The Information reported, as cited by Reuters, that OpenAI is exploring the possibility of directly purchasing Google-designed artificial intelligence processors known as tensor processing units. This potential move aims to diversify computing hardware sources after OpenAI had previously only rented these processors via cloud services since June 2025.