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Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 8:33 AM EDT

AI

AI Summary

  • OpenAI has been actively rolling out new GPT versions, including GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 mini and nano, and GPT-5.3 Instant, emphasizing improvements in reasoning, conversation smoothness, and specialized applications like GPT-Rosalind for life sciences.
  • The company is heavily investing in and promoting 'agents,' with numerous announcements regarding workspace agents, agentic workflows, AgentKit, and the Agentic AI Foundation, indicating a strategic shift towards more autonomous AI capabilities.
  • OpenAI continues to expand its enterprise offerings with solutions like ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex for Teams, focusing on scalability, flexible pricing, and industry-specific applications to drive business reinvention and productivity.
  • A significant portion of OpenAI's recent efforts is dedicated to safety and responsible AI development, including the introduction of new safety blueprints (Child Safety Blueprint, Japan Teen Safety Blueprint), bug bounty programs, and discussions on AI alignment, governance, and mitigating malicious uses.
  • Partnerships and collaborations are a key theme, with OpenAI announcing strategic alliances with major companies like Amazon, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Apple, as well as specific industry players like Hyatt, Cloudflare, and various financial and news organizations, to accelerate AI adoption and infrastructure development.

OpenAI News

  • Introducing GPT-5.5 a day ago
    Product

    Introducing GPT-5.5, our smartest model yet—faster, more capable, and built for complex tasks like coding, research, and data analysis across tools.

  • GPT-5.5 System Card a day ago
    Safety
  • Automations a day ago
    OpenAI Academy

    Learn how to automate tasks in Codex using schedules and triggers to create reports, summaries, and recurring workflows without manual effort.

  • Top 10 uses for Codex at work a day ago
    OpenAI Academy

    Explore 10 practical Codex use cases to automate tasks, create deliverables, and turn real inputs into outputs across tools, files, and workflows.

  • Plugins and skills a day ago
    OpenAI Academy

    Learn how to use Codex plugins and skills to connect tools, access data, and follow repeatable workflows to automate tasks and improve results.


Google AI

  • What’s new with Google Cloud 7 days ago by Google Cloud Content & Editorial
    Google Cloud, Inside Google Cloud

    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. ---------------------------------------- aside_block APR 13 - APR 17 * We're excited to announce the Public Preview of Datastream’s metadata integration with Knowledge Catalog. This is the first step in our vision to provide a centralized, "single pane of glass" for all Datastream assets. The enhancement automatically synchronizes Streams,

  • What’s new with Google Cloud - 2025 4 months ago by Google Cloud Content & Editorial
    Google Cloud, Inside Google Cloud

    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. ---------------------------------------- DEC 22 - DEC 26 * To design production-ready AI agents, you must choose the right tools for memory, reasoning, and orchestration. To simplify this process, Choose your agentic AI architecture components provides an iterative framework to help you select products and tools that best match your

  • The Year in Google Cloud — 2025 4 months ago by Google Cloud Content & Editorial
    Inside Google Cloud, Google Cloud

    In the AI era, when one year can feel like 10, you’re forgiven for forgetting what happened last month, much less what happened all the way back in January. To jog your memory, we pulled the readership data for top product and company news of 2025. And because we publish a lot of great thought leadership and customer stories, we pulled that data too. Long story short: the most popular stories largely mapped to our biggest announcements. But not always — there were more than a few sleeper hits on this year’s list. Read on to relive this huge year,

  • Google Cloud Europe establishes new European Advisory Board 6 months ago by Tara Brady
    Inside Google Cloud, Customers

    Across the world, organizations are partnering with Google Cloud to tackle their toughest challenges, drive digital transformation, and unlock new levels of growth. In Europe, organizations face unique and complex regulatory challenges. To ensure we're delivering the best possible value and experience for our customers here, we have established a new European Advisory Board. This distinguished group of leaders from across various industries will act as a vital feedback channel, help customers navigate complex regulatory landscapes, and foster a strong, sustainable digital economy. Their counsel is key to ensuring Google Cloud products not only meet but exceed European requirements, driving

  • Cool stuff Google Cloud customers built, Oct. edition: Research agents, a World Series hit, agentic "teams" & more 6 months ago by Google Cloud Content & Editorial
    AI & Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Databases, Inside Google Cloud, Partners, Customers

    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 look into new research agents from Deutsche Bank and The Max Planck Institute; helping devs strut their stuff with new databases for Rent the Runway; mortgage lender Mr. Cooper’s “team” of AI agents answering tough customer questions; an AI assistant for doctors


The Deep View

  • OpenAI's GPT-5.5 sets up agentic superapp an hour ago by The Deep View

    Welcome back. Google showed what practical agentic AI looks like by rebuilding Workspace around context, making everyday tools smarter without getting too flashy. Meanwhile, Meta’s move to Amazon's Graviton chips shows the AI race is no longer just about GPUs but about the full stack needed to run agents at scale. And OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 looks like the clearest signal yet of where ChatGPT is headed, toward an agentic superapp that can plan, use tools, and handle longer, messier workflows.  —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OPENAI'S GPT-5.5 SETS UP AGENTIC SUPERAPP 2. HOW GOOGLE REBUILT WORKSPACE FOR AGENTS 3. META’S AMAZON DEAL WIDENS THE

  • Why OpenAI’s team agents raise new risks a day ago by The Deep View

    Welcome back. Apple and Google’s AI alliance is moving from theory to reality, showing how high the stakes have become as the two rivals join forces to bring AI mainstream. At the same time, one of the least visible but most important AI battles is happening in the data layer, where Vast Data’s $1 billion raise signals that infrastructure, storage, and memory constraints could shape how far agents can scale. And OpenAI’s new Workspace agents make clear that team agents are the next frontier, but companies should move carefully, because shared context, autonomy, and business-critical data introduce a new class

  • Cursor-SpaceX deal signals coding agents' victory 2 days ago by The Deep View

    Welcome back. OpenAI’s Image 2.0 signals a shift from novelty to utility with thinking tools and real-world applications for generative AI images. At Google Cloud Next, the company is trying to bring order to the enterprise agent mess with a broader Gemini Enterprise platform built to manage data and governance at scale. And coding agents are now officially the center of gravity in the AI ecosystem, as the $60 billion Cursor-SpaceX deal shows how far challengers will go to stay in the race. It is a bold but risky bet to catch leaders Claude Code and Codex. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S

  • With new CEO, Apple picks a lane in the AI race 3 days ago by The Deep View

    Welcome back. Adobe’s annual Sneaks offer a revealing glimpse of how AI is accelerating inside the company, and we got a special glimpse at what could be one of the company's next big AI features. Apple named John Ternus as its next CEO, signaling a clearer bet on hardware, devices, and tightly integrated experiences as its path for the AI era. And at Adobe Summit, the company argued that enterprise agents need more than raw model power; they need context, interoperability, and guardrails, which is the gap Adobe CX Enterprise wants to hit. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. APPLE CHOOSES ITS

  • Why AI agent slop is overwhelming workers 4 days ago by The Deep View

    Hello, friends. Sam Altman's World ID just brought its iris-scanning verification to dating apps, enterprise tools like Zoom and DocuSign, and even agentic workflows. Anthropic launched Claude Design, expanding beyond its developer roots to give teams a native tool for creating visual assets and iterating on designs through prompts. And the agent mania gripping the industry is producing a real problem: AI workslop. As OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger put it, agents without strong human direction still produce slop. The bottleneck isn't technology. It's humans doing the thinking. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. WHY AI AGENT SLOP IS OVERWHELMING WORKERS 2. CLAUDE DESIGN