Overview
- An agreement announced Monday between OpenAI and Microsoft ends exclusive rights to OpenAI’s models, keeps Microsoft’s IP license through 2032, and shifts money flows so Microsoft stops paying OpenAI while OpenAI shares certain revenues until 2030.
- OpenAI can now distribute its models on other clouds, with deals reported for Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Oracle, and Amazon’s Andy Jassy saying AWS will offer OpenAI models through its Bedrock service.
- The federal trial in Oakland opened Monday in Elon Musk’s case against Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, seeking to remove them from leadership, restructure OpenAI, and recover damages that filings say could exceed $180 billion.
- Former OpenAI staff have joined Musk’s case with testimony about the loss of transparency and the shift from the group’s early open‑source posture, while Altman and Brockman deny wrongdoing and say the for‑profit structure was necessary to fund larger models.
- Competition is tightening as OpenAI and Google models are tied at the top of a 2026 performance ranking, and a separate report says Google reached a confidential Pentagon deal to use Gemini for classified work, prompting an employee letter of protest.