Double Game: OpenAI Revenue Breaches $40B Amid Market Warm-Up with Cyber Threats

The corporate sector has officially become the main fuel of the AI economy. On August 24, 2026, it was revealed that OpenAI’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) surpassed $40 billion, with the enterprise segment overtaking the consumer (B2C) market for the first time.

In sync with this financial triumph, the corporation’s top management began publicly inciting panic. Through The Guardian, the lab warned of the risk of "permanent" cyberattacks organized by autonomous agents. This is a classic B2B market warm-up. OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing for IPOs and are actively developing closed (Zero Trust) enterprise tools for infrastructure protection. By demonstrating the frightening capabilities of their own models, Big Tech creates artificial fear, which becomes the best driver for selling premium security systems to banks and corporations. The question of deploying AI agents is settled; now, businesses will be forced to pay to ensure these agents don’t hack them.

Source: Enterprise DNA / The Guardian