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The Sixty-Nine Days · claim T1

REPORTEDCredible secondary reporting. No primary exists or none was reachable.

Around August 10, OpenAI closed a roughly $7 billion employee share tender at its March valuation of $852 billion, unchanged. No filing exists; a private company owes none. Who funded it is not established.

2026-08-10

The document

Document
Bloomberg, August 10, 2026, and aggregating coverage (TechCrunch, CNBC)
Dated
2026-08-10
Source
open the primary

Who read it

Not read at primary; Bloomberg is paywalled. An earlier claim that OpenAI funded it with its own cash traced to a search-engine summary and was retracted.

Fleet ledger anchor: §3 row ~Aug 10