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Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business. Sign up by August 20 to get $100 in workspace credits and unlock higher usage for your team's most demanding work.

The enterprise marketing team at Zapier uses ChatGPT Work to reduce the number of drop-offs in its lead funnel, build campaign assets, and automate reporting.

Virgin Atlantic is accelerating research, product planning, and decision-making with ChatGPT Work, helping teams connect signals across the customer journey.

OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.

Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.

ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.

OpenAI and the American Psychological Association advance evidence-based guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use and youth mental health.

New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.

OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.

Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.

OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.

GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.

Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development efficiency.

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances.

A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful.

See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterprise by combining leadership, responsible governance, and employee-led innovation to transform work at scale.

OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.

avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey responses were positive.

How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.

OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.

GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar.

A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.

New OpenAI research shows how AI is expanding what workers do, with ChatGPT users taking on tasks across roles and reshaping job boundaries.

Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.

OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.

News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI tools supporting journalists and publishers worldwide.

OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate discovery.

Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.

NTT DATA Group uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to help 9,000 employees automate work, cut incident analysis to 30 minutes, and scale secure AI adoption.

OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing global leadership in finance, technology, and governance.

OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.

Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and expert partnerships.

How OpenAI’s creative team uses Codex to build custom creative tools, accelerate ideation, and prototype faster with context-aware AI.

Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams across the company.

OpenAI outlines a “reverse federalism” approach to AI governance, where state laws help build a national framework for safe, democratic AI.

Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.

Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.

See how data science teams can use ChatGPT Work to build root-cause briefs, impact readouts, KPI memos, scoped analyses, and dashboard specs from real work inputs.

See how sales teams can use ChatGPT Work to create pipeline briefs, meeting prep packets, forecast reviews, account plans, and stalled-deal diagnoses from real work inputs.

How Deutsche Telekom is becoming an AI-native telco with OpenAI-transforming customer service, employee workflows, network operations, and the future of voice.

Welcome back. AMD CTO Mark Papermaster explains why powerful local AI could shift intelligence from the cloud to your desk. We also examine why investors are moving beyond model makers and pouring billions into energy and critical minerals, betting that AI's biggest opportunities now lie deeper in the stack. And, Alibaba's new Qwen3.8-Max shows how China's AI leaders are competing on more than benchmarks and price, but are using powerful storytelling to reframe AI as a "work-mate" that gives people back their time. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Alibaba pitches AI as 'work-mate' to win over users 2.

Welcome back. The Google Flow film festival offered a hopeful answer to the AI slop problem: the strongest work kept human actors and practical production at the center, while using AI for aliens, special effects, and impossible scenarios. Meanwhile, CrowdStrike’s latest threat report shows the security exploit window decreasing dramatically, with 88% of known flaws attacked within two days. This could mean big changes for cybersecurity teams. Anthropic’s evaluations added another warning, after Claude breached three enterprises through weak passwords and exposed endpoints without being detected. The impact of AI agents on cybersecurity is becoming much clearer, and it's going

Welcome back. IBM found that AI-assisted cyberattacks now cost enterprises about $1 million more per breach, even as AI-powered defenses can cut those losses. Google’s Gemini Robotics 2 points to a future where robots will be able to reason and have much better body control. But even more importantly, the new robotic models are creating a feedback loop that could accelerate both robots and AI. Meanwhile, Microsoft's latest quarterly results are evidence that having the best frontier model may not be the winning strategy. Its advantages lie in efficiency, enterprise trust, and the ability to translate tokens into measurable business

Welcome back. OpenAI may have quietly surpassed its own "automated AI research intern" milestone, using GPT-5.6 Sol to post-train GPT-5.6 Luna, work normally handled by a more experienced researcher. See our exclusive look inside the process. Google, meanwhile, is turning Gemini into a direct rival to Wispr Flow with its new intelligent dictation on Mac that cleans up natural speech and works across desktop apps. And a new legal argument says AI outputs should receive First Amendment protections, raising difficult questions about who is responsible when users and AI jointly create text. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI

Welcome back. Teens are increasingly turning to AI for emotional support, not simply because chatbots are always available, but because many feel more heard by machines than by people. See why. More than 1,100 AI workers from the leading labs are warning that the race toward stronger AI may be moving faster than we can safely manage. They suggest a slowdown. And in an exclusive, we reveal the technology quietly powering OpenAI’s agent push: the open-source harness underneath Codex and ChatGPT Work. Its latest optimizations could make agents cheaper, more efficient, and easier to get started, just as more and

Welcome back. AI glasses are moving from curiosity to real product category in 2026, with Samsung, Snap, XREAL, Halliday, and Brilliant Labs all on the verge of releasing glasses with wildly different capabilities. Microsoft, meanwhile, believes that the best defense against increasingly capable cyber models is another AI model, one that finds vulnerabilities faster and at lower cost. And the growing debate over open models in the US may be more valuable than any single policy outcome. The real opportunity is the public conversation itself, and the acknowledgment that AI’s future is not predetermined. It will be shaped by the

Welcome back. IBM chief scientist Ruchir Puri argues that today's models have to learn how to recognize uncertainty before they can become fully reliable and useful. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s once-alarming data center bets look increasingly strategic as agents drive demand for compute and rivals scramble to secure capacity. Anthropic’s new Opus 5 reflects the same pressure from another angle, delivering stronger performance at lower cost while making Claude’s model lineup even more confusing to navigate. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Claude gets more frugal and confusing with Opus 5 2. Why OpenAI's compute spree now looks prescient 3. Why

Hello, friends. AI is reshaping the customer journey. As private AI conversations replace search and social signals, businesses face a growing “intent gap.” You now have to infer what customers have already decided, then deliver digital experiences that confirm choices, reduce friction, and build confidence. That’s the topic of this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with Rokt . Let us know what you think! — Jason Hiner AI Is Making Customer Intent Invisible The next competitive advantage won't come from understanding who customers are. It will come from understanding what they've already decided before they arrive. For more than

Welcome back. The best AI users may be the ones who challenge it. New research found that workers who questioned and refined AI outputs outperformed those who simply delegated. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing voice as the next interface for making AI feel more natural and useful, especially as agents take on more complex tasks.. AMD’s Venice chips arrive at a pivotal moment, as agentic workloads drive demand for CPUs, efficiency, and lowering the cost of compute. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AMD’s Venice chips arrive for the agent boom 2. Why the AI voice race is

Welcome back. AI may be writing more code, but software engineers aren't disappearing. Their work is shifting toward verification, making judgment calls and bigger strategic decisions. Meanwhile, Samsung and Google’s smart glasses look polished, practical, and privacy-friendly, but Gemini alone may not be enough to leapfrog Meta Ray-Bans. And of course, the most important story is OpenAI’s accidental breach of Hugging Face during a cybersecurity test. The company deserves credit for disclosing it, but the incident is a stark warning: Frontier models are becoming powerful enough to escape their boundaries, and existing safeguards aren't ready for how powerful the models

Welcome back. AI glasses are getting a workplace makeover. Halliday’s new second-generation glasses drop the camera and remake the experience around meetings, with live captions, translation, summaries, and other productivity boosts. Cisco, meanwhile, is betting that small language models (SLMs) can be stronger at cybersecurity. Its purpose-built Antares models aim to find software vulnerabilities faster, locally, and at a fraction of frontier-model costs. And Google’s latest Gemini models show where the broader AI race is heading: lower latency, fewer tokens, and cheaper agents. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Google's lighter Gemini models reveal AI’s new race 2. Cisco

Welcome back. US tech companies are leading the world in AI-related layoffs, but cutting workers before automation proves its value is increasingly looking like a costly gamble. Meanwhile, new research shows AI-generated sexual content is reaching teens largely by accident, reshaping body image, trust, and behavior faster than platforms or lawmakers can respond. And AMD’s Helios has won backing from Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI, giving the market its first major alternative to Nvidia's Vera Rubin for training and running the world's most advanced AI models. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Nvidia's grip on the most advanced AI loosens

Welcome back. AI’s duopoly is having long-term consequences by leaving most countries dependent on US and Chinese AI models and infrastructure. Meanwhile, creative resistance to AI may be softening as filmmakers and creators embrace tools that cut tedious work, lower costs, and expand what they can make, even as questions about originality and consent remain unresolved. And Kimi K3 is triggering claims that it has overtaken the leading models from Anthropic and OpenAI. While its leap forward is impressive, let's keep in mind that it's only in one benchmark for now, and the model could still largely be distilled from

Welcome back. Databricks has made itself a foundational part of enterprises for years with its interoperable, no-lock-in strategy. In an interview with The Deep View, Jonathan Frankle, the company's chief AI scientist, said that fundamental strategy, along with embracing risk in boundary-pushing research, has allowed the company to take a lead role in the ever-evolving AI landscape. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Databricks' AI edge starts with research 2. Why rejecting lock-in keeps Databricks sharp 3. How Databricks is betting on custom AI ENTERPRISE Databricks' AI edge starts with research Jonathan Frankle describes his job at Databricks as

Hello, friends. Risk doesn’t have to slow AI transformation. The best security leaders are turning risk management from a roadblock into a catalyst. OneTrust’s maturity curve offers a framework for understanding where your organization stands and how better risk foundations can help teams move faster, scale AI safely, and stay competitive. Thanks for tuning into this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with OneTrust . Let us know what you think! — Jason Hiner Find out where your organization sits on the risk maturity curve The problem with how enterprises treat risk Risk has long been viewed as something to