Multiple senior core executives at OpenAI’s Stargate data center have left the company, signaling a major strategic shift in the company’s AI infrastructure rollout. The project faces issues related to funding, partnerships, and geopolitical risks, and OpenAI is re-evaluating its compute infrastructure build-out strategy.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responds to the Molotov cocktail attack, admits he underestimated the societal impact of AI-related anxiety, calls for democratizing technology, and acknowledges mistakes in corporate governance, reiterating his refusal to comply with Elon Musk’s demands for control of OpenAI to ensure the company develops independently.

OpenAI issued a security advisory on April 11 confirming that it identified a security issue involving the third-party library Axios, but found no evidence that user data was accessed. To ensure security, the company requires all macOS users to update to the latest version to prevent the risk of forged applications.

Gate News, on April 10, a source said that OpenAI will be brought under the jurisdiction of the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and classified as a very large online search engine. This means OpenAI will need to comply with stricter regulatory requirements under the DSA for large platforms.

Gate News, April 10, OpenAI announced it will launch a monthly $100 ChatGPT Pro subscription tier. Compared with the Plus version, the Pro tier offers a higher Codex usage allowance and is intended for high-intensity, code-related scenarios. At the same time, the official said that during a limited-time promotion (through May 31), Pro users’ Codex usage will be further increased to about 10 times that of the Plus version.

Gate News message, April 9, according to a report by the AXIOS website, OpenAI is finalizing a product with advanced cybersecurity capabilities and plans to first roll it out to a small number of partners. According to reports, AI technology has already reached a tipping point in autonomy and hacking capabilities. Developers of AI models are concerned about the potential damage that their own tools could cause, so they are taking a cautious approach toward a wider release.

OpenAI has paused the Stargate infrastructure project it planned to advance in the UK due to high energy costs and regulatory uncertainty. Whether the project will move forward is still being evaluated; OpenAI will instead use third-party cloud services, and it is expected that compute spending will be significantly reduced by 2030.

SpaceX executive Michael Nicolls said in a memo that xAI’s training performance is poor and clearly behind its competitors. As a result, it decided to reorganize the engineering team, appoint a new leader, and aim to catch up with companies like OpenAI and Google. This move is part of the rebuilding plan pushed by Elon Musk.

Reports say Anthropic’s revenue has grown rapidly this year, surpassing OpenAI, and its valuation is $3800 billion, leaving investors puzzled by OpenAI’s $8520 billion valuation. Differences in how reports split revenue with cloud partners partly explain the revenue gap, and investors are focused on OpenAI’s pricing strategy and whether its valuation is reasonable.

Gate News update. On April 9, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said in a CNBC interview that in the latest round of fundraising, OpenAI has started opening up to retail investors and has seen very strong demand from individual investors. Sarah Friar also revealed that OpenAI plans to