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Using GPT-6 Astra, Playco built three themed game prototypes from one grey box foundation and reported 50% fewer manual fixes than with the previous model.

Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.

GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.

ATV Big Air Tour uses ChatGPT Work to speed up marketing, merchandising, and more. It even turned merchandise photos into an inventory website in 15 minutes.

Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. See what enterprise leaders can apply.

Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.

ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more.

See how Gilbert + Tobin combines CEO-led commitment, rigorous governance, and human accountability to scale ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex across the firm.

OpenAI supports California SB 1119, advancing strong, age-appropriate AI safeguards for teens while preserving opportunities to learn, create, and explore.

Polimill uses OpenAI GPT models and Codex to help municipalities search and use administrative knowledge while accelerating development.

ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.

Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.

OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.

A randomized study of more than 1,000 students examines ChatGPT, critical thinking, originality, and student performance on a real-world university assignment.

OpenAI is expanding its presence in Brazil, deepening engagement with developers, businesses, and communities to support AI adoption across the country.

OpenAI’s new report explores how students and educators use ChatGPT to make learning more continuous, with support that extends beyond the classroom.

ChatGPT for Teachers is expanding to 55 U.S. school systems, bringing secure AI tools, training, and support to over 100,000 more educators and staff.

OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.

Discover how loveholidays uses OpenAI Codex to make software development accessible across the business, helping teams turn ideas into products faster.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar explains how advances across chips, compute, models, and products compound to deliver more useful intelligence at greater scale and lower cost.

Jalapeño is a custom inference chip from OpenAI that delivers faster, more power-efficient AI inference, with higher throughput and lower latency for modern models.

OpenAI banned Russia-origin accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a “sovereignty” index praising Russia and criticizing the West.

Use the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex to analyze workspace usage, manage members and permissions, adjust limits, and act on admin requests.

GPT‑5.6 is now available in Kiro, helping developers plan, build, review, and test software with better price-performance.

Introducing Intelligence Age, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.

With a fixed deadline and design resources committed elsewhere, Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days.

OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.

Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.

ChatGPT Ads is expanding to 31 European markets. Learn how advertisers can reach people as they explore, compare options, and make decisions.

OpenAI launches an initiative to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security, supporting government institutions with tools, training, and expertise.

OpenAI and CodeAI are partnering to help students build AI literacy, think critically about AI, and develop the skills to use and shape it responsibly.

OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.

ChatGPT for Teens helps teens learn, think critically, and use AI with confidence, with stronger built-in protections, healthy-use features, and additional controls for parents.

NVIDIA teams use ChatGPT Work to reduce manual tasks, connect fast-moving signals, and scale successful workflows globally.

Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K.

AI is reshaping cybersecurity for attackers and defenders alike. Learn how OpenAI is strengthening its defenses and what security teams can do now.

OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project, expanding community investment and supporting thousands of Southern Ohio jobs

OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.

Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities.

Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second.

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.

OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.

See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.

OpenAI and AWS are making Daybreak cybersecurity capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock to support enterprise security workflows.

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

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;

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

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

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

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

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

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 offers

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

Welcome back. AI devices may be booming, but too many of them duplicate what your smartphone already does. The category needs to get a lot more ambitious. Speaking of ambitious, Physical Superintelligence is using AI-driven physics to optimize infrastructure and solve some of the key roadblocks to interstellar travel. And as frontier models make cyberattacks faster and cheaper, Cloudflare is solving the problem by changing the economics. Its Adaptive Intelligence continuously learns from live traffic, creating a moving target designed to make automated attacks slower, harder and a lot more expensive for hackers. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.

Welcome back. Google is turning your ebooks into AI context inside Gemini Notebook, a move that could make grounded, source-based AI more useful if it expands to Kindle and other ebook sources. AMD is making an AI infrastructure bet that openness and customer choice can loosen Nvidia’s grip on the AI stack as hardware economics get more challenging. Meanwhile, the data centers powering all of this are becoming AI’s political flashpoint, as public opposition hardens against AI factories. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. The AI boom can’t outrun public opposition 2. How Google is turning books into AI

Welcome back. With frontier model capabilities racing ahead at a rapid clip, Replit becomes the latest company to embrace efficiency and cost over power with its model routing service. And a recent model release from Cohere tells a similar story: using niche models for specific tasks may prove better results. Meanwhile, Agility Robotics CTO Pras Velagapudi discusses how the company has found success targeting manufacturing as the first big niche for humanoid robots. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why AI’s future may belong to niche models 2. Inside Agility's bet on factory-first humanoids 3. As models commoditize, Replit

Welcome back. Open models are gaining ground as enterprises chase lower costs, more control and better privacy. Nvidia’s reported $12.9 billion deal for Hugging Face would allow it to play a central role in the future of the open model ecosystem. At the same time, more than 100 leading tech companies warn that AI-enabled cyberattacks are advancing faster than our defenses, and they are united in calling for an urgent, industry-wide response. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Nvidia’s Hugging Face bet is bigger than models 2. Why AI rivals are uniting to prevent cyber crisis 3. The economics

Welcome back. Google is turning one of the Pixel 11’s best features into a platform. By opening the model behind Rambler, Google is giving developers the capability to bring polished, conversational dictation to virtually every device. Salesforce and Anthropic are weaving Claude across Salesforce and Slack so enterprises can inject intelligence into some of their most used platforms. And China’s Z.ai revealed itself as the lab behind the viral Ox Alpha model, showing that capable AI does not need frontier pricing. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why Chinese models may win AI’s efficiency race 2. Salesforce taps Claude

Welcome back. Perplexity and Nvidia are betting a new brand of local agents can cut token costs, speed up performance, and keep sensitive data private. Apple’s also thinking about local AI, and its new M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio show how seriously Cupertino now is taking this opportunity. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, beats Nvidia Blackwell on performance per watt in a SemiAnalysis benchmark. It's a striking result for silicon developed in under two years, with the help of OpenAI's latest models. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. How OpenAI's Jalapeno chip surprised the

Welcome back. The biggest shift happening in AI right now is more economic than technical. Thomson Reuters has built its own domain-specific model, using proprietary data to own the intelligence layer of its business while potentially lowering costs. And OpenAI is cutting frontier-model prices as enterprises get more disciplined about what intelligence is actually worth. Meanwhile, new Indeed data shows AI job exposure is highest in cities built around software and knowledge work, while trade jobs and hands-on work remains resilient. See the US cities most at risk for AI-powered transformation. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OpenAI has

Welcome back. A specialized small model is outperforming frontier AI on a specific sales task, at a fraction of the cost, strengthening the case for enterprises to use smaller models where they fit. Meanwhile, foldables have spent years searching for a reason to exist, but AI may finally give their extra screen space a purpose. And an anonymous model called Ox Alpha has come out of nowhere to challenge some of AI’s biggest names. Whether it lasts is another question, but its sudden rise suggests the moat around frontier AI is shrinking. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. The

Hello, friends. As AI moves into production in the enterprise, inference costs are becoming a bigger concern, especially as agents drive up token usage. Crusoe is betting that owning more of the infrastructure stack can help. Its approach reflects a broader shift in enterprise AI: making deployment cheaper, faster and less operationally complex. Thanks to Crusoe for sponsoring today’s edition of The Deep View. Let us know what you think! — Jason Hiner How Crusoe makes scaling AI less painful As enterprises move from experimentation to deployment of AI, fast, easy and affordable inference is growing increasingly important. One estimate

Welcome back. OpenAI’s new plugin for Apple Messages shows how quickly AI is shifting from answering questions to managing tasks, and it puts pressure on Apple's Siri overhaul coming in September. Meanwhile, AI’s limitless appetite for compute is running into constraints around energy, infrastructure, and resources, shifting the industry's focus to efficiency. And after a week with Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold, I’m convinced its combination of Wispr Flow-like voice dictation and a tablet-sized screen for remotely steering agents makes it the best phone for AI developers and enthusiasts right now. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Pixel 11

I recently attended an engagement party where one of the bridesmaids was extremely crafty and made a beautiful two-tier charcuterie board with fruit, cheeses, and crackers, including little thoughtful details like tiny flowers for the bride-to-be. I immediately complimented her on how lovely a job she had done. She responded, "I just asked ChatGPT how to display them all, and it gave me this layout and even suggested the flowers." I couldn't help but react with disappointment, and I instantly wanted to take the compliment back, since I felt like I actually owed the compliment to a chatbot. This conversation

Welcome back. New Pew data shows AI may be losing its most natural early adopters, with a majority of Americans under 30 now more concerned than excited about the technology. Snowflake thinks model routing can rein in soaring AI costs by matching each task with the right model instead of throwing frontier-level horsepower at everything. And research from Goldman Sachs finds AI is already squeezing hiring in specific white-collar fields, especially for entry-level workers, while the broader impact of AI on the labor market remains surprisingly narrow. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI’s labor impact depends on where

Welcome back. Apple may have found a way around one of AI wearables’ biggest drawbacks. A new report says Apple will put cameras in AirPods released next month, but they will be used to give AI visual context without recording the world around you. Meanwhile, ChatGPT for Teens adds new safeguards, but technology alone can’t solve AI’s impact on kids and education. Parents and students still have a lot to work out together. And OpenAI is making an extraordinary move by deliberately slowing development of its most powerful models after catching signs of "misalignment." The AI industry's standard-bearer choosing control

Welcome back. Smartphones have been locked into a lot of the same designs for years, but Honor’s Robot Phone hints at a stranger, more interesting future, with a camera arm that can follow you and make hands-free AI assistance more interactive. Meanwhile, AI coding startups are attracting multi-billion-dollar valuations as they chase one of enterprise AI’s clearest wins. The question is how many tools will companies keep paying for once the experimentation phase ends. And the economics of agents are getting tougher. Gartner says inference costs per agentic workflow could rise more than fivefold by 2028, turning AI’s efficiency gains

Welcome back. Enterprises want to deploy agents, but new reports show legacy systems, fragmented data and tech debt are making agents hard to scale. Meanwhile, Chinese AI labs are pressing into the enterprise with cheaper, more customizable models, forcing companies to weigh cost savings against trust and security. And as bubble talk returns, the bigger question may not be whether AI demand is real, but whether confidence can hold as expectations, spending and skepticism collide. Nat Rubio-Licht and I unpack the myth and the reality of the bubble in the latest episode of The Deep View Conversations podcast. — Jason