OpenAI AI Updates: April 7, 2026

1. OpenAI Urges California and Delaware AGs to Investigate Musk’s Anti-Competitive Behavior

OpenAI. Chief strategy officer Jason Kwon sent a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general urging them to investigate Elon Musk’s alleged anti-competitive behavior, claiming Musk has “repeatedly attempted to wrest control of the nonprofit for his personal gain.” The letter also alleges Musk has been coordinating efforts with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to undermine OpenAI, ahead of the Musk-OpenAI trial with jury selection slated to begin April 27. Source

2. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Unite via Frontier Model Forum to Combat Chinese Distillation

OpenAI. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information through the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their terms of service. The collaboration aims to counter systematic campaigns by Chinese AI companies — including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax — that have been using fraudulent accounts and proxy services to extract capabilities from U.S. frontier models. The effort represents the first coordinated industry-wide response to model-level intellectual property theft across competing AI labs. Source