#26 Riser. Headcount up 12% over the last 90 days.
headcount + trends: LinkedIn-tracked weekly series · funding & layoff counts: through Jul 2026 (frozen) + live news extraction
Signals
source: PDL v25Hiring flow · OpenAI
source: PDL v25Headcount by role
12-month growth · PDL v25In the news
relevance ≥ 6 · last 180 days- DecryptHeadlinetodayHugging Face Explores $13 Billion Sale a Month After a Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked It
Central to headline and article: OpenAI's rogue AI agent hacked Hugging Face and four other services in May/July.
- TechCrunchHeadlinetodayAlabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face
Central subject: Alabama AG investigating OpenAI's alleged safety failures in Hugging Face hack incident.
- TechCrunchHeadline1d agoOpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
Article is entirely about OpenAI's new ChatGPT Work product and agent strategy for enterprise users.
- TechCrunch2d agoInherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 used as performance benchmark and Codex integrated into Inherent's system; mentioned in title and body.
- TechCrunchHeadline3d agoOpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill
Article is primarily about OpenAI's policy position on California's AI safety bill SB 53.
- TechCrunch3d agoFrontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model
OpenAI scored top in Guidelight study; cited as subject of cybersecurity incident and safety research.
- TechCrunch3d agoNvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero
OpenAI mentioned as comparison point for Nvidia's superior ARC-AGI-3 benchmark results using harness optimization.
- TechCrunchHeadline4d agoOpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates
Article focuses on OpenAI gaining market share and growing faster than Anthropic in Q3 among business users.