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Technology executive who served as President and COO of cybersecurity firm Wiz before joining OpenAI as chief revenue officer.
OpenAI will pair GPT-6 Cyber, its fourth security model of 2026, with its first product for deploying it, Fortune reports. With $1 billion pledged to subsidize critical-services users, OpenAI is moving toward selling security work to operators and gaining a view of how they use the model.
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Dresser, Simo and Lightcap are all gone within about a month of each other, with an IPO prospectus already filed confidentially and no offering date attached.
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A cybersecurity sales operator now owns the number OpenAI's 2027 listing will be judged on, and Anthropic may reach the public market first.
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The most capable cyber model OpenAI has built goes first to unnamed alpha testers guarding critical infrastructure, which means the buyers most eager to price it cannot bid, and what they get instead is an admission decision the company will not explain.
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Brian McCarthy becomes OpenAI's first vice president of worldwide sales, arriving from a SpaceX that OpenAI stopped supplying three weeks ago. He is the new revenue chief's first hire, and two Snowflake sales leaders are moving over too.
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Fourteen executives gone in 2026, a listing pushed to 2027, and a Stargate bill averaging $125 billion a year. The headcount is noise. The seats are the story.
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Two go-to-market leaders gone in a week, five C-suite changes in a year, and an incoming revenue chief whose method is to re-score every open deal.
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