Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered — The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex.

OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving
Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as 800B in recent weeks; it was valued at 380B in February (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says OpenAI's Microsoft deal 'limited our ability' to reach clients using Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its 40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B (Bloomberg)
Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is 'grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google' and overstating its 'run rate by roughly $8B' (Hayden Field/The Verge)
OpenAI plans to open its first permanent London office with a 500+ staff capacity; in February, OpenAI said it would make London its largest non-US research hub (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-17

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