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A deep dive into why Codex Security doesn’t rely on traditional SAST, instead using AI-driven constraint reasoning and validation to find real vulnerabilities with fewer false positives.

Rakuten uses Codex, the coding agent from OpenAI, to ship software faster and safer, reducing MTTR 50%, automating CI/CD reviews, and delivering full-stack builds in weeks.

How ChatGPT defends against prompt injection and social engineering by constraining risky actions and protecting sensitive data in agent workflows.

How OpenAI built an agent runtime using the Responses API, shell tool, and hosted containers to run secure, scalable agents with files, tools, and state.

Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at scale.

IH-Challenge trains models to prioritize trusted instructions, improving instruction hierarchy, safety steerability, and resistance to prompt injection attacks.

ChatGPT introduces interactive visual explanations for math and science, helping students explore formulas, variables, and concepts in real time.

OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during development.

Codex Security is an AI application security agent that analyzes project context to detect, validate, and patch complex vulnerabilities with higher confidence and less noise.

Descript uses OpenAI models to scale multilingual video dubbing, optimizing translations for both meaning and timing so dubbed speech sounds natural across languages.

See how Balyasny built an AI research system with GPT-5.4, rigorous model evaluation, and agent workflows to transform investment analysis at scale.

OpenAI introduces CoT-Control and finds reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, reinforcing monitorability as an AI safety safeguard.

Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer use, tool search, and 1M-token context.

OpenAI shares new tools, certifications, and measurement resources to help schools and universities close AI capability gaps and expand opportunity.

Practical insights and frameworks to turn AI progress into business advantage

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Excel and new financial app integrations, powered by GPT-5.4 to accelerate modeling, research, and analysis in regulated environments.

Five AI value models show how leaders can sequence AI from workforce fluency to process reinvention and build durable business advantage.

A new preprint extends single-minus amplitudes to gravitons, with GPT-5.2 Pro helping derive and verify nonzero graviton tree amplitudes in quantum gravity.

OpenAI introduces the Learning Outcomes Measurement Suite to assess AI’s impact on student learning across diverse educational environments over time.

Axios COO Allison Murphy explains how the company uses AI to support local reporters, streamline newsroom workflows, and deliver high-impact local journalism at scale.

Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety red lines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified environments.

Microsoft and OpenAI continue to work closely across research, engineering, and product development, building on years of deep collaboration and shared success.

Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.

OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models, and enterprise AI agents.

Stateful Runtime for Agents in Amazon Bedrock brings persistent orchestration, memory, and secure execution to multi-step AI workflows powered by OpenAI.

OpenAI shares updates on its mental health safety work, including parental controls, trusted contacts, improved distress detection, and recent litigation developments.

OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory introduce DraftNEPABench, a new benchmark evaluating how AI coding agents can accelerate federal permitting—showing potential to reduce NEPA drafting time by up to 15% and modernize infrastructure reviews.

OpenAI and Figma launch a new Codex integration that connects code and design, enabling teams to move between implementation and the Figma canvas to iterate and ship faster.

Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense.

OpenAI appoints Arvind KC as Chief People Officer to help scale the company, strengthen its culture, and lead how work evolves in the age of AI.

SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.

OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners to help enterprises move from AI pilots to production with secure, scalable agent deployments.

We share our AI model’s proof attempts for the First Proof math challenge, testing research-grade reasoning on expert-level problems.

OpenAI commits $7.5M to The Alignment Project to fund independent AI alignment research, strengthening global efforts to address AGI safety and security risks.

OpenAI for India expands AI access across the country—building local infrastructure, powering enterprises, and advancing workforce skills.

OpenAI and Paradigm introduce EVMbench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents’ ability to detect, patch, and exploit high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities.

A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.

Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfiltration.

How OpenAI built a real-time access system combining rate limits, usage tracking, and credits to power continuous access to Sora and Codex.

GABRIEL is a new open-source toolkit from OpenAI that uses GPT to turn qualitative text and images into quantitative data, helping social scientists analyze research at scale.

Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.

By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Welcome back. Nvidia announced several new bets on Monday at GTC 2026. In space, it's pushing AI compute to the edge, enabling orbital hardware to process data in real time instead of sending it back to Earth. On the ground, it's positioning itself in the center of the robotics era, building the full stack for physical AI without making its own robots. Meanwhile, OpenAI is sharpening its enterprise strategy, working with private equity firms to embed its technology across large portfolios of companies. It's also pulling back on "side quests" and doubling down on AI that can help professionals do

Welcome back. A new Snowflake survey suggests AI is creating more jobs than it destroys, at least so far, even as hiring patterns shift for entry-level workers. The open-source NanoClaw project just got a major boost from Docker, allowing AI builders to run secure personal AI agents locally without buying a Mac mini. And this week we’re on the ground in San Jose for Nvidia GTC, where the biggest signals to watch include the battle for AI inference, Nvidia’s push into open models, and a new wave of robots queuing up. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. NVIDIA GTC PREVIEW: 3 BIG

Hello, friends. Today, GitHub serves 180 million developers, but its true ambition is far bigger. In my conversation with the company’s chief product officer, we explored how natural language, repository intelligence, and AI agents could redefine what it means to be a developer and expand the global coding community to over a billion people by 2030. If you thought developers were going away, this interview offers a contrarian perspective. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. GITHUB’S NEXT GOAL: EMPOWER A BILLION DEVELOPERS 2. REPOSITORY INTELLIGENCE: GIVING AGENTS A MEMORY 3. THE IDEA-TO-PRODUCTION FUTURE PRODUCT GITHUB'S SECRET SAUCE FOR THE FUTURE OF CODING GitHub has 180 million users

Hello, friends. The current reality is that AI demand is rising faster than infrastructure can keep up. Crusoe is tackling the issue with modular data centers that can be deployed in less time and are better optimized for AI. Its Spark Factory and Edge Zones aim to deliver faster, localized AI compute, allowing Crusoe to support sovereign AI, edge optimization, and regional needs. Thanks to Crusoe for sponsoring today’s edition of The Deep View. —Jason Hiner HOW CRUSOE BUILDS DATA CENTERS AROUND AI NEEDS AI is moving so fast that the infrastructure to support it can barely keep up.  Goldman Sachs predicts that

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Welcome back. Apple’s new MacBook Pro M5 Max points to a potential reset in AI economics, making it possible to run larger models locally and reduce reliance on costly cloud inference. Microsoft is pushing deeper into agentic work with Copilot Cowork, but the early version looks less capable than more ambitious rival agents. And Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon is turning into a broader story, as employees from OpenAI and Google publicly back the company’s red lines. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. RIVAL AI WORKERS LINE UP BEHIND ANTHROPIC 2. MICROSOFT LAUNCHES COWORK AGENT, WITH LIMITS 3. MACBOOK PRO M5 MAX COULD CHANGE AI

Hello, friends. Consumer AI is moving beyond early adopters, and the next breakout AI apps will be powered by personal agents, creative work, and persistent memory. In the latest episode of our podcast, we are joined by a special guest from Andreessen Horowitz to explore the tools gaining traction and the shifts changing how people work. Special thanks to this week’s sponsor, JetBrains, for their support of The Deep View. —Jason Hiner THE CONSUMER AI APPS TO WATCH IN 2026 In the latest episode of The Deep View: Conversations, we talk with Olivia Moore, partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley’s

Welcome back. All three of today's stories show how quickly AI is reshaping the world. At MWC, Qualcomm sketched a future in which AI wearables work together as a body area network rather than a single device. Yann LeCun is challenging the industry’s fixation on AGI, proposing “superhuman adaptable intelligence” as a more practical goal. And in the U.S.–Iran conflict, AI-generated videos are flooding social media, showing how quickly fake videos and images can distort the information landscape. But there's something everyone can do. The technologies advancing AI are powerful; we can all agree on that. The bigger question is

Welcome back. Today, we’re doing a deep dive into Crusoe, an AI factory company that aims to solve the industry’s growing pains at every point in the stack. Special thanks to Crusoe for sponsoring today’s edition of The Deep View. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. HOW CRUSOE TACKLES AI'S DATA CENTER PROBLEM 2. WHY CRUSOE HITS EVERY PIECE OF THE STACK 3. WHEN MODEL-AGNOSTIC CAN BE THE WINNING STRATEGY  CRUSOE TACKLES AI'S DATA CENTER PROBLEM Infrastructure is perhaps the biggest dilemma facing the AI market today.  Data centers weren’t built with AI in mind. They’re not optimized for high-performance compute and AI workloads. This reckoning has

Hello, friends. Enterprise planning has long been complex, slow, and dependent on specialists. Pigment thinks AI can change that. Its new Modeler Agent lets teams describe planning models in natural language and generate production-ready applications in minutes, aiming to bring the speed of vibe coding to enterprise planning without sacrificing governance, reliability, or scale. This is a special weekend edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with Pigment. Let us know what you think! —Jason Hiner PIGMENT BRINGS INTENT MODELING TO ENTERPRISE PLANNING Pigment wants to make enterprise planning feel like vibe coding, but production-ready. Enterprise planning software has a dirty secret: most

Welcome back. At MWC, we saw more evidence that the biggest AI opportunities may lie beyond frontier models, with startups using today’s AI to solve concrete problems in medicine, cybersecurity and computer vision. At the same time, Cursor is pushing coding agents into new frontiers beyond just generating code. It's reshaping software development with always-on automation to fill new gaps in the rapidly transforming coding space. And OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 signals that the next battle is for professional workflows, combining stronger reasoning, coding and agentic control into a model built to do more real work with less friction. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S

Welcome back. Apple may still look like it’s trailing in the AI race, but its latest research shows it’s quietly working on a critical problem: hallucinations. We break down Apple’s new method for pinpointing exactly where AI goes wrong. At MWC, Honor unveiled a playful “robot phone” with a tiny gimbal arm that hints at how strange AI hardware could soon get. And a new “Pro-Human AI Declaration,” backed by voices from across tech and politics, warns that the race to replace human labor with AI carries momentous societal risks. The pact demands that human thriving gets centered in the

Welcome back. Apple is doubling down on the machines powering the AI boom, with new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips in the MacBook Pro. These machines are built to run large models locally and handle heavier AI workloads for AI builders. At MWC, Alibaba quietly entered the smartglasses race with its Qwen AI glasses, lightweight frames with in-lens displays and swappable batteries — a unique option for glasses. And in the frontier labs race, OpenAI and Google both rolled out faster, lighter models aimed at cutting costs and speeding up everyday AI tasks. Their latest releases show a clear