Your AI Vendor Joined OpenAI in March. You Heard in August.
OpenAI's NextSlide deal closed early in 2026 and only surfaced on August 8, when the founder posted a goodbye note — five months after he joined OpenAI in March. In this wave of AI acqui-hires the product dies in seven to thirty days and the data is deleted weeks later — so the export window has to be contractual, not assumed.
August 9, 2026 · 10 min read