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Edu for Countries is a new OpenAI initiative helping governments use AI to modernize education systems and build future-ready workforces.

Our latest report reveals stark differences in advanced AI adoption across countries and outlines new initiatives to help nations capture productivity gains from AI.

OpenAI and the Gates Foundation launch Horizon 1000, a $50M pilot advancing AI capabilities for healthcare in Africa. The initiative aims to reach 1,000 clinics by 2028.

Stargate Community plans detail a community-first approach to AI infrastructure, using locally tailored plans shaped by community input, energy needs, and workforce priorities.

Cisco and OpenAI redefine enterprise engineering with Codex, an AI software agent embedded in workflows to speed builds, automate defect fixes, and enable AI-native development.

ServiceNow expands access to OpenAI frontier models to power AI-driven enterprise workflows, summarization, search, and voice across the ServiceNow Platform.

ChatGPT is rolling out age prediction to estimate if accounts are under or over 18, applying safeguards for teens and refining accuracy over time.

How AI can expand human agency by closing the capability overhang—helping people, businesses, and countries unlock real productivity, growth, and opportunity.

OpenAI’s business model scales with intelligence—spanning subscriptions, API, ads, commerce, and compute—driven by deepening ChatGPT adoption.

The truth left out from Elon Musk’s recent court filing.

ChatGPT Go is now available worldwide, offering expanded access to GPT-5.2 Instant, higher usage limits, and longer memory—making advanced AI more affordable globally.

OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.

OpenAI is investing in Merge Labs to support new brain computer interfaces that bridge biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency, and experience.

OpenAI launches a new RFP to strengthen the U.S. AI supply chain by accelerating domestic manufacturing, creating jobs, and scaling AI infrastructure.

OpenAI partners with Cerebras to add 750MW of high-speed AI compute, reducing inference latency and making ChatGPT faster for real-time AI workloads.

By rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise company-wide, Zenken has boosted sales performance, cut preparation time, and increased proposal success rates. AI-supported workflows are helping a lean team deliver more personalized, effective customer engagement.

We’re publishing our Raising Concerns Policy, which protects employees’ rights to make protected disclosures.

OpenAI and SoftBank Group partner with SB Energy to develop multi-gigawatt AI data center campuses, including a 1.2 GW Texas facility supporting the Stargate initiative.

OpenAI and Datadog brand graphic with the OpenAI wordmark on the left, the Datadog logo on the right, and a central abstract brown fur-like texture panel on a white background.

How Netomi scales enterprise AI agents using GPT-4.1 and GPT-5.2—combining concurrency, governance, and multi-step reasoning for reliable production workflows.

OpenAI for Healthcare enables secure, enterprise-grade AI that supports HIPAA compliance—reducing administrative burden and supporting clinical workflows.

Tolan built a voice-first AI companion with GPT-5.1, combining low-latency responses, real-time context reconstruction, and memory-driven personalities for natural conversations.

ChatGPT Health is a dedicated experience that securely connects your health data and apps, with privacy protections and a physician-informed design.

Applications are now open for OpenAI Grove Cohort 2, a 5-week founder program designed for individuals at any stage, from pre-idea to product. Participants receive $50K in API credits, early access to AI tools, and hands-on mentorship from the OpenAI team.

More than one million customers around the world now use OpenAI to empower their teams and unlock new opportunities. This post highlights how companies like PayPal, Virgin Atlantic, BBVA, Cisco, Moderna, and Canva are transforming the way work gets done with AI.

OpenAI is strengthening ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection attacks using automated red teaming trained with reinforcement learning. This proactive discover-and-patch loop helps identify novel exploits early and harden the browser agent’s defenses as AI becomes more agentic.

OpenAI introduces a new framework and evaluation suite for chain-of-thought monitorability, covering 13 evaluations across 24 environments. Our findings show that monitoring a model’s internal reasoning is far more effective than monitoring outputs alone, offering a promising path toward scalable control as AI systems grow more capable.

OpenAI and the U.S. Department of Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding to deepen collaboration on AI and advanced computing in support of scientific discovery. The agreement builds on ongoing work with national laboratories and helps establish a framework for applying AI to high-impact research across the DOE ecosystem.

OpenAI is updating its Model Spec with new Under-18 Principles that define how ChatGPT should support teens with safe, age-appropriate guidance grounded in developmental science. The update strengthens guardrails, clarifies expected model behavior in higher-risk situations, and builds on our broader work to improve teen safety across ChatGPT.

OpenAI shares new AI literacy resources to help teens and parents use ChatGPT thoughtfully, safely, and with confidence. The guides include expert-vetted tips for responsible use, critical thinking, healthy boundaries, and supporting teens through emotional or sensitive topics.

GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced coding model, offering long-horizon reasoning, large-scale code transformations, and enhanced cybersecurity capabilities.

This system card outlines the comprehensive safety measures implemented for GPT‑5.2-Codex. It details both model-level mitigations, such as specialized safety training for harmful tasks and prompt injections, and product-level mitigations like agent sandboxing and configurable network access.

GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced coding model, offering long-horizon reasoning, large-scale code transformations, and enhanced cybersecurity capabilities.

OpenAI is launching the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, a new learning hub built with the American Journalism Project and The Lenfest Institute to help newsrooms use AI effectively. The Academy offers training, practical use cases, and responsible-use guidance to support journalists, editors, and publishers as they adopt AI in their reporting and operations.

Developers can now submit apps for review and publication in ChatGPT, with approved apps appearing in a new in-product directory for easy discovery. Updated tools, guidelines, and the Apps SDK help developers build powerful chat-native experiences that bring real-world actions into ChatGPT.

OpenAI introduces FrontierScience, a benchmark testing AI reasoning in physics, chemistry, and biology to measure progress toward real scientific research.

OpenAI introduces a real-world evaluation framework to measure how AI can accelerate biological research in the wet lab. Using GPT-5 to optimize a molecular cloning protocol, the work explores both the promise and risks of AI-assisted experimentation.

The new ChatGPT Images is powered by our flagship image generation model, delivering more precise edits, consistent details, and image generation up to 4× faster. The upgraded model is rolling out to all ChatGPT users today and is also available in the API as GPT-Image-1.5.

OpenAI shipped Sora for Android in 28 days using Codex. AI-assisted planning, translation, and parallel coding workflows helped a nimble team deliver rapid, reliable development.

BBVA is expanding its work with OpenAI through a multi-year AI transformation program, rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise to all 120,000 employees. Together, the companies will develop AI solutions that enhance customer interactions, streamline operations, and help build an AI-native banking experience.

BNY is using OpenAI technology to expand AI adoption enterprise-wide. Through its Eliza platform, 20,000+ employees are building AI agents that enhance efficiency and improve client outcomes.

GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s strongest model yet for math and science, setting new state-of-the-art results on benchmarks like GPQA Diamond and FrontierMath. This post shows how those gains translate into real research progress, including solving an open theoretical problem and generating reliable mathematical proofs.

Discover how Podium used OpenAI’s GPT-5 to build “Jerry,” an AI teammate driving 300% growth and transforming how Main Street businesses serve customers.

GPT-5.2 is our most advanced frontier model for everyday professional work, with state-of-the-art reasoning, long-context understanding, coding, and vision. Use it in ChatGPT and the OpenAI API to power faster, more reliable agentic workflows.

GPT-5.2 is the latest model family in the GPT-5 series. The comprehensive safety mitigation approach for these models is largely the same as that described in the GPT-5 System Card and GPT-5.1 System Card. Like OpenAI’s other models, the GPT-5.2 models were trained on diverse datasets, including information that is publicly available on the internet, information that we partner with third parties to access, and information that our users or human trainers and researchers provide or generate.

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this regular round-up, we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories.  For our latest edition, we explore Uber’s revamped network with modern edge; smarter, AI-infused site search at Target; a wicked fast blockchain built by Keeta Network; HCA Healthcare empowers its nurses with a new AI-powered information portal; Deutche Telecom enhances its data science workloads; Google’s AI infrastructure

A year ago today, Google Cloud filed a formal complaint with the European Commission about Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices — specifically those that impose financial penalties on businesses that use Windows Server software on Azure’s biggest competitors.  Despite regulatory scrutiny, it’s clear that Microsoft intends to keep its restrictive licensing policies in place for most cloud customers. In fact, it’s getting worse.  As part of a recent earnings call, Microsoft disclosed that its efforts to force software customers to use Azure are “not anywhere close to the finish line,” and represented one of three pillars “driving [its] growth.” As we approach

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this regular round-up, we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories. For our latest edition, we explore Box’s AI agents extracting insights with cross-platform agent integration; Schroders uses multiple connected agents to build a complex investment research system; Hypros’ IoT device can monitor patient distress in hospitals without individual monitoring; a Formula E exhibition of whether regenerative braking

There’s a buzz of excitement here at Tobacco Dock as we welcome our customers and partners to the Google Cloud Summit London. Together, we’re exploring the essential role Google Cloud is playing in driving AI innovation and adoption across the UK. Today is about shining a spotlight on our customers and partners, focusing on the real-world stories of how they are accelerating innovation, realising value, and reshaping entire industries with the powerful combination of AI agents and robust cloud infrastructure. The opportunity ahead is immense. AI is poised to inject more than £400 billion into the UK economy by 2030, and

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this monthly round-up, we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories.  For our inaugural edition, we explore Lowe’s new Visual Scout product recommendation engine powered by Vertex AI Vector Search; a responsive “Driver Agent” platform created by Formula E to bring more equity to the track; Ester AI, a conversational tool from wealth.com that can help financial planners

WEEK OF DEC 16 - DEC 20 * Windows Server 2025 is now available on Google Compute Engine. We are excited to announce the general availability of Windows Server 2025 on Google Compute Engine. You can now run Windows Server 2025 Data Center, and Windows Server 2025 Data Center Core editions as well as Windows SQL Server 2022 on Windows Server 2025 with pay-as-you-go licenses. Customers that don’t already have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement can use the Google Compute Engine’s provided image to take advantage of Google Cloud’s relationships with Microsoft for pay-as-you-go licenses that scale with your workload and

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that 2024 was a busy year for Google Cloud. From AI to Zero Trust, and everything in between, here’s a chronological recap of our top blogs of 2024, according to readership. You’ll probably see some favorites on this list, and discover a few that you missed the first time around.  JANUARY We started the new year strong, removing data transfer fees for anyone moving data off of our platform. Translation: Anyone doing cool things on Google Cloud (like using generative AI to analyze their microservices deployment) is doing it because they want

Over the past year, the pace of innovation across industries and around the world has been extraordinary. At Google, we're inspired by the public sector’s ingenuity and speed in adopting our AI and security innovations to achieve remarkable outcomes together. Since Google Cloud Next, we've launched more powerful versions of Gemini, rolled out Gemini Flash and Imagen 3. And we're proud to showcase inspiring examples from the public sector, highlighting how organizations are leveraging generative AI to drive transformative change. From state agencies streamlining citizen services to healthcare providers improving patient outcomes and defense organizations enhancing mission readiness, public sector organizations

Editors note, November 28th, 2025: “We filed our antitrust complaint with the European Commission (EC) to give voice to our customers and partners about the issue of anticompetitive cloud licensing practices. Today, we are withdrawing it in light of the recent announcement that the EC will assess problematic practices affecting the cloud sector under a separate process. We stand behind the arguments outlined in the blog below, and we continue to work with policymakers, customers, and regulators across the EU, the UK, and elsewhere to advocate for choice and openness in the cloud market." - Giorgia Abeltino, Head of Government

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more.  ---------------------------------------- Tip: Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources. ---------------------------------------- WEEK OF DEC 10 - DEC 15 * Announcing Launch of Cross Cloud Materialized Views: To help customers on their cross-cloud analytics journey, today we are thrilled to announce the public preview of BigQuery Omni cross-cloud materialized views (aka cross-cloud MVs). Cross-cloud MVs allow customers to very

To our customers: At Google Cloud, we put your interests first. This means that when you choose to work with us, we become partners on a journey of shared innovation, shared support, and shared fate. We are committed to helping you evolve as technology advances, drawing on our depth of experience to ensure you can use the latest and best technology, while keeping you safe and protected. When it comes to the rapidly developing world of generative AI, this is imperative. Earlier this year, we embedded Duet AI — an always-on AI collaborator — across our products, from Google Workspace to Google

Editor’s note: Jack Ngare is a Technical Director in Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO based in Nairobi, Kenya. A native of Kenya, he worked in telecommunications abroad for 12 years before returning home to work for a large African financial institution and a U.S. technology company. He joined Google Cloud last year with a mission to digitize and modernize Cloud’s global top customers, while simultaneously growing Africa's entrepreneurial technology culture.  ---------------------------------------- What is the opportunity you see before you? Working at Google Cloud, I’m able to bring people some of the world's best software and hardware engineering. I also see the possibility

Editor’s note: Alicia Abella is the Managing Director for Telecommunications Industry Solutions at Google Cloud. The work involves bringing complex, advanced technology to businesses across diverse markets and cultures — from startups in Brazil to North America's largest telecommunications companies. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba, she has a PhD, 29 patents, and extensive experience running teams and working with customers. ---------------------------------------- Did you always see yourself bringing new inventions into the world?  No, not at all. I grew up in Queens, New York — the only child of Cuban immigrants. My parents worked hard and saved money so I could get an

We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms, authored by Bern Elliot and Gabriele Rigon. We believe this recognition is a testament to Google Cloud’s robust investments and commitment to innovation in AI, coupled with a deep understanding of enterprise customer needs. Enterprises are increasingly investing in AI-driven solutions that balance addressing customer expectations with operational efficiency. At a time when the demand for quality, performant, and trustworthy conversational AI has never been higher, we’re thrilled to continue to deliver best-in-class technologies, purpose-built to solve our

Editor’s Note: José Neto works in Google Cloud's São Paulo office, assisting customers in both hybrid/on-prem cloud computing systems, and modernizing computer applications for the cloud. It's appropriate work; a native of Salvador, Brazil, he's spent decades harmonizing the past and the future, dealing with radical change, and staying comfortable amid uncertainty as he moves forward.  ---------------------------------------- What do you think defines how you work? It's the way I look at experience. When I work with a customer, I'm interested in helping them fix a problem or build a new service—it's very personal for me. I love working towards results. I always ask what

Welcome back. OpenAI's policy chief confirmed at Davos that the much-anticipated Jony-Ive-designed hardware device is "on track" to be unveiled in the second half of 2026. The device likely won't reach consumers until early 2027. But as I've said before, the fact that OpenAI went back to the drawing board after originally planning to make a device like the ill-fated Humane AI-pin was a smart move. We're now expecting a device more like a smart earbud. Still, when we polled The Deep View audience, only 29% said they would consider buying a new form-factor AI device made by OpenAI. —Jason

Welcome back. Claude Cowork could become the first AI agent to earn mainstream appeal. It generated major buzz last week, and Anthropic has quickly opened it up to more users. Originally limited to $100/month Max subscribers, it's now available on the $20/month Pro plan. Cowork is largely a nice interface for Anthropic's best-known product, Claude Code, a command-line tool that coders had already figured out how to use for building presentations, cancelling subscriptions, controlling smart home devices, and researching vacations. Cowork makes the AI agent accessible to non-coders. I was so interested in trying Cowork that I was considering a

Good morning. Welcome to this special weekend edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with Granola. HOW GRANOLA FITS INTO MEETINGS WITHOUT CHANGING HOW YOU WORK Most AI note-takers try to capture everything. Granola works differently. It helps you pull out what actually matters to you, without asking you to do more during the meeting. * No need to prepare notes. * No need to write everything down. * No need to invite a bot to your call. Here’s the simplest way to think about it to get the most value. ---------------------------------------- USE GRANOLA LIKE APPLE NOTES, NOT A MEETING TOOL Granola works best when you

Good morning. Welcome to this special weekend edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with SNOWFLAKE. HOW TO MAKE YOUR AI AGENT PRODUCTION-READY 🚀 Agents often fail in ways you can’t see. These hidden mistakes silently rack up compute costs, spike latency, and cause inflexible behavior that collapses in production. This session introduces the Agent GPA (Goal-Plan-Action) framework, available in the open-source TruLens library. Benchmark tests show that the Agent GPA framework consistently outperforms standard LLM evaluators, providing teams with scalable, trustworthy insight into agent behavior: * 95% error detection (vs. 55% baseline methods) * 86% accuracy in pinpointing where an error

Welcome back. Two of the six co-founders of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab have left the trendy startup and returned to OpenAI. There's been a lot of drama around the situation and some sharp elbow-swinging on both sides. But don't lose the larger narrative. The battle over AI talent remains fierce in 2026 (further under the radar, OpenAI's safety research lead just changed jerseys to play for Anthropic). But the bigger story might be the commoditization of frontier models. It suddenly looks more appealing to focus on building AI to solve specific problems rather than building the world's single best

Welcome back. OpenAI has quietly launched ChatGPT Translate. It supports 28 languages and comes with a bunch of great tips that are already more useful than what you'll find on Google Translate and other sites. However, Google Translate supports over 240 languages and has its 1,000 Languages Initiative to use AI to expand to all the most common languages on the planet. Language translation is clearly one of the strongest and most useful capabilities of LLMs. Over the past year, I already used standard ChatGPT prompts to effectively translate whole documents many times. While there's a lot of dialogue about

Welcome back. Investors are always chasing the next moonshot. Leave it to a couple of engineers to get it literal about it. Y Combinator, Nvidia, and SpaceX have all invested in a new startup, GRU Space, that aims to build the "First Lunar Hotel" by 2032 and has started taking bookings at $416,667 per night. A video on X shows a brief look at the design. The two-person startup says it will reinvest the profits from its Moon hotel to build structures on Mars, asteroids, and beyond as part of its journey toward Galactic Resource Utilization. At least the brightest minds

Welcome back. Meta is reportedly on the verge of laying off 10% of its metaverse team to make way for more AI spending. The cuts are coming to the Reality Labs division that makes VR headsets and software and employs about 15,000 people. Only a few years ago, they were the future of the company and the reason it renamed itself from Facebook to Meta. Still, Reality Labs is also responsible for Meta Ray-Bans, the smart glasses that Meta (and its competitors developing similar products) is counting on to become the interface that gets a lot more consumers interested in

Welcome back. OpenAI's LinkedIn competitor may arrive sooner than expected. On X, TestingCatalog posted screenshots of a new Jobs tab inside ChatGPT. OpenAI's Fidji Simo announced last September that in 2026 the company would launch its own AI-powered jobs platform, along with a worker certification program to verify AI skills. OpenAI is betting that it can use AI to super-charge matching employees to the best prospective jobs when they open, and do the same for employers looking to find the most outstanding candidates faster and at a higher quality rate than the traditional hiring process. We also shouldn't underestimate the

Good morning. Welcome to this special weekend edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with ASAPP. AI THAT RESOLVES, NOT JUST RESPONDS In 2026, brands won’t be competing on whether they use AI in customer service — they’ll be competing on how well their AI solves problems. The next generation of customer experience will be powered by agentic AI: AI agents that can reason, apply policy, and execute end-to-end workflows across all your systems. This is the shift from: Automation → Execution Conversations → Outcomes This is the agentic enterprise, and it’s built on ASAPP Customer Experience Platform (CXP). See ASAPP break it down in a live webinar on

Welcome back. Anthropic president Daniela Amodei joined Yann LeCun and others in casting doubt on whether today's AI is on a trajectory toward AGI, in a CNBC interview this week. Amodei specifically called the idea of AGI "outdated" and no longer useful as a way to think about next-gen AI becoming as capable as a human being. She asserted that AI has already surpassed some humans in a few specific areas, but still falls far short in many others. This is a positive development: seeing the AI industry move AGI out of the realm of Santa Claus and the Tooth

Welcome back. The Anthropic runaway freight train just accelerated again. The company raised $10 billion at a valuation of $350 billion — double its $183 billion valuation from four months ago. Like OpenAI, Anthropic is speeding toward one of the biggest IPOs of all time in the next 12-24 months. But unlike OpenAI, Anthropic has become a favorite of enterprise IT departments and turned into a revenue-generating machine. The company has grown its revenue by 10x in each of the last three years and expects to turn a profit by 2028, a full two years ahead of OpenAI. —Jason Hiner IN

Welcome back. AI is about to test the comfort zone of a lot of people in one US state. Utah is going to allow AI to authorize prescription refills for patients — an activity that's usually strictly limited to licensed medical professionals. The controversial move is elevating the dialogue about which activities make sense for AI to automate versus those that need humans in the loop. The Utah experiment is being administered by healthcare startup Doctronic, which says its study of 500 cases found the AI prescribed the same refills as doctors in 99.2% of cases. However, the American Medical

Welcome back. The demand for Nvidia's AI chips is so intense, and the backorder queue is so long, that the company doesn't actually have to worry much about the competition. But it was still great to see AMD roll out its Helios Rack system with the world's first 2nm chips to provide the compute to help accelerate AI innovation. AMD's marathon CES 2026 keynote lasted over two hours and covered topics as far afield as AI PCs, humanoid robots, health care innovation, and space exploration. But the most memorable part was AMD CEO Lisa Su saying that with the launch

Welcome back. When you think of CES, you probably think of humongous TVs, weird robots, and crazy gadget announcements that never come to market. But if you haven't gotten the memo, it's also an AI show now. Since CES is a hype factory with a nearly unlimited energy supply, Nat Rubio-Licht and I will be roaming the halls to separate the real AI products from the marketing stunts. Look for updates throughout the week, as well as our picks for the best AI products of CES 2026 on Friday. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. 8 BIG AI SHIFTS TO WATCH IN