OpenAI plans to reduce the share of its revenue paid to partners from about 20% to 8% by 2030. OpenAI is renegotiating cloud service pricing with Microsoft and has a new tentative, nonbinding agreement to continue their partnership. U.S. state attorneys general in California and Delaware are investigating OpenAI’s governance and financial changes.

The new agreement is set to remove one of several barriers for the startup, which is seeking to restructure and become a for-profit company.

On Thursday, OpenAI announced that the company will remain under the control of its nonprofit parent organization, which holds an equity stake valued at over $1

The shift reportedly follows internal testing that revealed Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 model excels at specific Office tasks where OpenAI's models fall short, particularly in visual design and spreadsheet automation, according to sources familiar with the project cited by The Information, who stressed the move is not a negotiating tactic.

Microsoft will integrate Anthropic’s Claude into Office 365, citing stronger performance in tasks like Excel and PowerPoint as tensions with OpenAI grow.