OpenAI's Salary Tops the List as AI Company Compensation Rankings are Revealed


OpenAI reports Codex agent experienced 137x personal, 189x org, and 12x internal user growth since Aug 2025. Non-technical users drive expansion beyond developers. Employee usage rose from 40% to 97.9%, highlighting long-horizon task capabilities.....
Lilian Weng returns with a deep dive into scaling laws, arguing the industry consensus may be reversed: from Kaplan to Chinchilla, the mainstream data allocation might not be optimal. It examines compute, model size, and data quantity trade-offs, implying the billions-invested path requires reconsideration, prompting a re-evaluation of pretraining recipes.....
Under US regulatory pressure, OpenAI shifts GPT-5.6 rollout to a phased model, first testing with vetted partners, signaling that the AI arms race is prompting new policy interventions.....
OpenAI reportedly delays its IPO to next year, after rumors of a confidential filing and a $1 trillion valuation target. It weighs two options: waiting until 2027 for a full trillion-dollar listing, or lowering the valuation to go public sooner. CEO Altman is said to be adamant about the latter.....
OpenAI has adjusted its GPT-5.0 release plan, following a request from the Trump administration, canceling the public launch and only opening it to a small number of close partners, using a government-by-government approval authorization model; if the restricted phase goes smoothly, full deployment will start within a few weeks.