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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 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.

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.

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

Learn how to use ChatGPT, start your first conversation, and discover simple ways to write, brainstorm, and solve problems with AI.

Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work.

Details about the OpenAI Bio Bounty program

More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work.

ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.

Learn how OpenAI approaches government and national security partnerships, with principles for responsible AI use, democratic accountability, and public safety.

A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.

OpenAI Academy and the Walton Family Foundation are bringing hands-on AI Skills Jams to help K–12 educators build practical AI skills for the classroom.

A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.

MUFG uses ChatGPT Enterprise to build an AI-native organization, improve workflows, and deliver new AI-powered financial services at scale.

See how Australian Payments Plus uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to move faster through payments complexity. AP+ saves time, improves quality, and keeps human judgment central.

New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages.

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.

OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.

A new OpenAI report maps how AI could reshape jobs across the EU, highlighting which occupations may face automation, growth, or workflow changes.

HP Inc. scales its OpenAI Frontier partnership to deploy AI across customer experiences, software development, and enterprise operations.

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model with stronger capabilities in coding, science, and cybersecurity, paired with its most advanced safety stack.

A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.

OpenAI and Broadcom introduce Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference to improve performance, efficiency, and scale across AI systems.

OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.

GPT-5 Pro helped solve a 3-year-old immunology mystery, offering insights into T cell behavior. The breakthrough could support cancer and autoimmune research.

Discover how Omio uses OpenAI to power conversational travel experiences, accelerate product development, and transform into an AI-native company.

OpenAI introduces new Daybreak tools, including Codex Security and GPT-5.5-Cyber, to help organizations find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities at scale.

OpenAI introduces Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative helping open-source maintainers find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities with AI and expert review.

Learn how Jason Liu uses Codex to preserve context, manage complex projects, and help work continue beyond a single prompt.

Samsung Electronics deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees worldwide, marking one of OpenAI’s largest enterprise AI rollouts.

OpenAI introduces new spend controls and usage analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise, helping organizations manage costs and scale AI with confidence.

Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.

Researchers used an OpenAI reasoning model to help diagnose rare diseases, identifying 18 new diagnoses in previously unsolved cases.

OpenAI and Molecule.one show how a near-autonomous AI chemist using GPT-5.4 improved a key drug-making reaction, advancing medicinal chemistry research.

Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and decisions.

OpenAI introduces Deployment Simulation, a method to predict AI model behavior before deployment using real conversation data to improve safety and evaluation accuracy.

OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.

OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.

Preply uses OpenAI to launch AI-generated lesson summaries, providing personalised feedback and language learning exercises.

OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with secure, persistent cloud environments, enabling long-running AI agents across enterprise workflows.

OpenAI supports the EU Code of Practice on AI content transparency, advancing provenance standards and tools to help people understand AI-generated content.

Discover how astrophysicist Chi-kwan Chan uses Codex to build black hole simulations, helping scientists study extreme physics and test Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

Learn how BBVA scaled ChatGPT Enterprise to 100,000 employees and partnered with OpenAI to accelerate AI-powered banking transformation worldwide.

Access OpenAI models and Codex through Oracle Cloud, using existing commitments to build and deploy AI with enterprise security and governance.

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. We examine why nearly 200 economists, tech leaders, and Nobel laureates are urging policymakers to prepare for AI's economic disruption before it arrives. We also look at the escalating price wars between OpenAI and Anthropic as they compete for power users by lowering the cost of cutting-edge models, a standoff that increasingly benefits customers. And after weeks of testing Apple's latest software, I explain why Siri AI is finally worth trying, provided you install the public beta with the right expectations and on the right device. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why Apple enthusiasts should try

Welcome back. IBM explains why enterprises will need sovereign AI before autonomous agents can safely operate at scale. Meta is dealing with a big backlash from users who didn't want their photos mixed with Meta's AI image models. And Apple's sweeping lawsuit against OpenAI threatens to reshape the race for AI hardware, challenging whether OpenAI can pursue its device ambitions without building on the foundations brought to the company from Apple employees. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Apple lawsuit threatens OpenAI’s hardware plans 2. User backlash kills Meta's AI use of your photos 3. Why sovereign AI is

Welcome back. New data reveals a widening gap between executives who think AI is transforming work and managers and employees stuck with manual workflows, unclear policies, and security concerns. Anthropic is trying to make AI usage more self-aware with Claude’s new reflection dashboard, but history suggests habits are hard to shift with awareness alone. And OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 launch was bigger than the model itself, with Codex merging into the main app and the launch of ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT Sites bringing the power of agents to nearly a billion OpenAI users. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. GPT-5.6 opens

Google's AI Overviews now shape how millions of users find information, making the act of search practically synonymous with turning to AI. The AI integration that Google has thrust upon users promises quicker, more conversational results, but what happens when you can’t trust the results being given? Usually, I use Google in the same way that billions of people do every day: type a question into the search engine and trust whatever the AI tells me, my boyfriend's pleas to "actually Google it" notwithstanding. So, when The New York Times published a report calling into question the accuracy of AI

Welcome back. A new Oxford study shows how many people are turning to chatbots for relationship advice and emotional support, highlighting both AI’s usefulness and its most serious risks. The US and China are now treating frontier models as strategic assets, even as technologists in both countries continue to use each other’s tools despite the rhetoric. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s new GPT-Live shows why voice may be the interface that brings AI into more everyday moments. And that makes accuracy and trust more important than ever. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why the latest ChatGPT Voice feels more human 2.

Welcome back. Enterprises are racing to deploy agents and models, but new DigiCert research shows security and governance are not keeping up, creating risks companies can no longer treat as theoretical. In Europe, a former Tesla scientist is betting that regulated robotics could help physical AI earn public trust faster than it might elsewhere. And Microsoft is testing whether its own in-house AI can reduce costs and keep loyal Microsoft customers inside its ecosystem, even if frontier labs still lead in raw capabilities. One of AI's next big questions is about who can scale responsibly. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S

Welcome back. AI’s cleanup cycle is getting messy. Reddit is now using AI to fight the AI slop flooding online communities, while it licenses those same conversations to train models. Illinois is showing how states can put real teeth behind AI safety, with independent audits and legal penalties for frontier labs that fall short. And Anthropic is moving from being the primary beneficiary of tokenmaxxing to being a cost-control partner for enterprises by adding new tools to help CFOs and CIOs rein in Claude spending. AI is scaling fast, but users, companies, and governments are demanding more control. — Jason

Welcome back. At Google Research, AI agents are helping scientists test hundreds of thousands of ideas, accelerating discovery without replacing human expertise. In our latest episode of The Deep View Conversations, Luma AI COO Caroline Ingeborn explains why multimodal systems will matter more than LLMs for physical AGI. And new data from Ramp and Revelio Labs complicates the narrative around AI and jobs, showing that the companies adopting AI the most are hiring more, rather than laying off workers. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI adoption is reshaping hiring, not shrinking it 2. Why world models, not LLMs,

Large language models can do a lot of things, as long as those things exist on a screen. Having consumed practically all of the data on the internet, these models can tell you something about practically anything. They can analyze thousands of documents and pull out the most important parts. They can plan your trips, write poems, and mimic therapists in times of need. They can help researchers understand anything from protein structures to ancient history. And they’re the backbone of millions of agents that are the hottest ticket in tech right now. But the world is bigger than a

Welcome back. Apple's investment in its own custom chips continues to pay off in the AI era, and our exclusive conversation with Apple's Doug Brooks reveals the details. Meanwhile, Amazon is pouring $1 billion into forward deployed engineers, one of the hottest jobs in AI. But companies should understand the lock-in risks before inviting them in. And the US government has cleared Anthropic's Mythos for release, ending a three-week standoff that may have accidentally achieved what AI safety advocates didn't think was possible: a brief pause on frontier models, and perhaps a new template for oversight. — Jason Hiner IN

Welcome back. Anthropic's Claude Science debuts as a workbench for scientists that can run on local hardware. Anthropic is betting biology becomes AI's next big proving ground after code, though be wary of language about curing diseases and rolling back aging. Google launched Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash, pushing fast, controllable creative tools while courting Hollywood and leaning in on trust. And Anthropic dropped Sonnet 5, a cheaper, more agentic model signaling the industry's pivot away from tokenmaxxing toward efficiency as enterprises balk at ballooning AI bills. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why Sonnet 5

Welcome back. Ford learned a painful lesson about what AI can and can't do. It had to hire back engineers after its automated systems fell short of expectations. The best playbook isn't replacement, it's augmentation. Meanwhile, Anthropic struck a deal with California, offering state agencies Claude at half price. It's good PR, but the bigger move is influence over tech regulation in the state that typically leads the way in the US. And Qualcomm made its biggest AI data center move yet, acquiring Modular to establish an open platform that could finally give companies a viable alternative to Nvidia's CUDA

Welcome back. Companies keep telling workers to use AI, but too many are leaving them without training, approved tools, or a real strategy. And workers are having to fend for themselves. Meanwhile, Google Research is making the case that AI could dramatically accelerate science, giving researchers new ways to search literature, test hypotheses, and shorten the path from breakthrough to real-world impact. And OpenAI changed the frontier LLM race again with the release of GPT-5.6, a new model family that appears to edge past Anthropic’s Mythos on key agentic benchmarks. But will each model leap still feel meaningful to users,

Hello, friends. AI agents are becoming powerful enough to act on our behalf, and that's creating a new enterprise security challenge. This week, we examine why running coding agents locally has become too risky for many organizations, and how a new generation of remote, centrally managed environments could make agentic software a lot more practical at enterprise scale. Thanks for tuning into this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with Coder . Let us know what you think! — Jason Hiner See how to run Claude Code in a way IT approves The problem with Claude Code on the desktop

Welcome back. A new $500 million coalition backed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, and others aims to help the workforce adapt before AI disruption becomes a full-blown jobs crisis. Meanwhile, leaders at the Confidential Computing Summit argued that agents need chip-level identities and hardware-enforced trust to ensure safety. New OpenAI data shows how quickly agents are replacing chatbots in the workplace, helping employees expand their reach and take on more valuable tasks. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. New OpenAI data shows dramatic shift to agents 2. Can new coalition save US jobs from AI? 3. Chips may be