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Disney and OpenAI have reached an agreement to bring more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters to Sora for fan-inspired short videos. The agreement emphasizes responsible AI in entertainment and includes Disney’s company-wide use of ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API.

OpenAI reflects on ten years of progress, from early research breakthroughs to widely used AI systems that reshaped what’s possible. We share lessons from the past decade and why we remain optimistic about building AGI that benefits all of humanity.

Discover how Podium used OpenAI’s GPT-5 to build “Jerry,” an AI teammate driving 300% growth and transforming how Main Street businesses serve customers.

GPT-5.2 is the latest model family in the GPT-5 series. The comprehensive safety mitigation approach for these models is largely the same as that described in the GPT-5 System Card and GPT-5.1 System Card. Like OpenAI’s other models, the GPT-5.2 models were trained on diverse datasets, including information that is publicly available on the internet, information that we partner with third parties to access, and information that our users or human trainers and researchers provide or generate.

OpenAI is investing in stronger safeguards and defensive capabilities as AI models become more powerful in cybersecurity. We explain how we assess risk, limit misuse, and work with the security community to strengthen cyber resilience.

Scout24 has created a GPT-5 powered conversational assistant that reimagines real-estate search, guiding users with clarifying questions, summaries, and tailored listing recommendations.

OpenAI co-founds the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation and donates AGENTS.md to support open, interoperable standards for safe agentic AI.

Learn how OpenAI’s new certifications and AI Foundations courses help people build real-world AI skills, boost career opportunities, and prepare for the future of work.

OpenAI is collaborating with Deutsche Telekom to bring advanced, multilingual AI experiences to millions of people across Europe. ChatGPT Enterprise will also be deployed to help employees at Deutsche Telekom improve workflows and accelerate innovation.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia partners with OpenAI to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to 50,000 employees, building AI fluency at scale to improve customer service and fraud response.

Denise Dresser is joining as Chief Revenue Officer, overseeing OpenAI’s global revenue strategy across enterprise and customer success. She will help more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations as OpenAI continues to scale.

OpenAI and Instacart are deepening their longstanding partnership by bringing the first fully integrated grocery shopping and Instant Checkout payment app to ChatGPT.

Key findings from OpenAI’s enterprise data show accelerating AI adoption, deeper integration, and measurable productivity gains across industries in 2025.

Virgin Atlantic CFO Oliver Byers shares how the airline is using AI to speed up development, improve decision-making, and elevate customer experience.

OpenAI is launching OpenAI for Australia to build sovereign AI infrastructure, upskill more than 1.5 million workers, and accelerate innovation across the country’s growing AI ecosystem.

OpenAI is acquiring Neptune to deepen visibility into model behavior and strengthen the tools researchers use to track experiments and monitor training.

OpenAI researchers are testing “confessions,” a method that trains models to admit when they make mistakes or act undesirably, helping improve AI honesty, transparency, and trust in model outputs.

The OpenAI Foundation announces the initial recipients of the People-First AI Fund, awarding $40.5M in unrestricted grants to 208 nonprofits supporting community innovation and opportunity.

Mirakl is redefining commerce through AI agents and ChatGPT Enterprise—achieving faster documentation, smarter customer support, and building toward agent-native commerce with Mirakl Nexus.

OpenAI is awarding up to $2 million in grants for research at the intersection of AI and mental health. The program supports projects that study real-world risks, benefits, and applications to improve safety and well-being.

OpenAI and NORAD are bringing new magic to “NORAD Tracks Santa” with three ChatGPT holiday tools that let families create festive elves, toy coloring pages, and custom Christmas stories.

OpenAI takes an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings to accelerate enterprise AI adoption, embedding frontier research and engineering directly into accounting and IT services to boost speed, accuracy, and efficiency while creating a scalable model for industry-wide transformation.

Accenture and OpenAI are collaborating to help enterprises bring agentic AI capabilities into the core of their business and unlock new levels of growth.

OpenAI shares details about a Mixpanel security incident involving limited API analytics data. No API content, credentials, or payment details were exposed. Learn what happened and how we’re protecting users.

OpenAI expands data residency for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the API Platform, enabling eligible customers to store data at rest in-region.

We’re sharing our approach to mental health-related litigation. O handle sensitive cases with care, transparency, and respect while continuing to strengthen safety and support in ChatGPT.

JetBrains is integrating GPT-5 across its coding tools, helping millions of developers design, reason, and build software faster.

Shopping research in ChatGPT helps you explore, compare, and discover products with personalized buyer’s guides that simplify decision-making

UCLA Professor Ernest Ryu and GPT-5 solved a key question in optimization theory, showcasing AI’s role in accelerating mathematical discovery.

OpenAI and Foxconn are collaborating to design and manufacture next-generation AI infrastructure hardware in the U.S. The partnership will develop multiple generations of data-center systems, strengthen U.S. supply chains, and build key components domestically to accelerate advanced AI infrastructure.

OpenAI is partnering with DoorDash, SCORE, and local organizations to help 1,000 small businesses build with AI. The Small Business AI Jam gives Main Street business owners hands-on tools and training to compete and grow.

OpenAI introduces the first research cases showing how GPT-5 accelerates scientific progress across math, physics, biology, and computer science. Explore how AI and researchers collaborate to generate proofs, uncover new insights, and reshape the pace of discovery.

OpenAI works with independent experts to evaluate frontier AI systems. Third-party testing strengthens safety, validates safeguards, and increases transparency in how we assess model capabilities and risks.

Learn how evals help businesses define, measure, and improve AI performance—reducing risk, boosting productivity, and driving strategic advantage.

OpenAI and Target are partnering to bring a new Target app to ChatGPT, offering personalized shopping and faster checkout. Target will also expand its use of ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity and guest experiences.

ChatGPT for Teachers is a secure workspace with education‑grade privacy and admin controls. Free for verified U.S. K–12 educators through June 2027.

This system card outlines the comprehensive safety measures implemented for GPT‑5.1-CodexMax. It details both model-level mitigations, such as specialized safety training for harmful tasks and prompt injections, and product-level mitigations like agent sandboxing and configurable network access.

Teacher Access Terms outline how verified educators may use ChatGPT for Teachers, covering eligibility, account management, and data privacy requirements.

Introducing GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a faster, more intelligent agentic coding model for Codex. The model is designed for long-running, project-scale work with enhanced reasoning and token efficiency.

Description: Global manufacturer Scania is scaling AI with ChatGPT Enterprise. With team-based onboarding and strong guardrails, AI is boosting productivity, quality, and innovation.

OpenAI and Intuit have entered a $100M+ multi-year partnership to launch Intuit app experiences in ChatGPT and expand Intuit’s use of OpenAI’s frontier models to power personalized financial tools.

OpenAI has been named an Emerging Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Innovation Guide for Generative AI Model Providers. The recognition reflects our enterprise momentum, with over 1 million companies building with ChatGPT.

OpenAI launches OpenAI for Ireland, partnering with the Irish Government, Dogpatch Labs and Patch to help SMEs, founders and young builders use AI to innovate, boost productivity and build the next generation of Irish tech startups.

OpenAI is exploring mechanistic interpretability to understand how neural networks reason. Our new sparse model approach could make AI systems more transparent and support safer, more reliable behavior.

We’re piloting group chats in ChatGPT to make collaboration simple. Bring others—and ChatGPT—into one shared conversation to plan, brainstorm, and create together.

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

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, and

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

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

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

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). Cross-cloud MVs allow customers to very

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

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 see the possibility

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 could get an

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

Editor’s Note: José Neto works in Google Cloud's São Paulo office, assisting customers in both hybrid/on-prem cloud computing systems, and modernizing computer applications for the cloud. It's appropriate work; a native of Salvador, Brazil, he's spent decades harmonizing the past and the future, dealing with radical change, and staying comfortable amid uncertainty as he moves forward.  ---------------------------------------- What do you think defines how you work? It's the way I look at experience. When I work with a customer, I'm interested in helping them fix a problem or build a new service—it's very personal for me. I love working towards results. I always ask what

We have made great strides toward more equitable workplaces in the past decade. This is particularly true since 2020 and something to celebrate on the occasion of International Women’s Day. It’s also an appropriate time to reflect on how we can continue to reach an equitable playing field by confronting biases and empowering all people in the workplace. As tech industry veterans, we’ve experienced our share of challenges in male-dominated workplaces — being talked over in meetings, having our contributions devalued or our knowledge and skills underestimated, and working much longer hours in the hopes of being given the same opportunities

From keeping the internet running to driving AI innovation to transforming our customers’ businesses, women deliver impact across Google Cloud. We work to continue to bring more women into leadership roles through supporting initiatives including: * Career Development: We support women on the path to Director with a program called Polaris, a year-long career development program —more than 500 women have participated in the program since it began in 2017. * Sponsorship: We offer mentoring and sponsorship programs across all levels, including Pathways to Sponsorship, a nomination-based program to accelerate the career progression of women into senior leadership. * Women@Cloud:

Welcome back. Major model developers have made the lofty vision of artificial general intelligence their North Star. But if we ever get there, will we even need it? Using AGI for every task might be overkill, Ruchir Puri, chief scientist at IBM, told The Deep View.  Puri sat down with The Deep View to discuss the problems with existing perceptions about AGI and how enterprises may get more out of their AI deployments with focused, niche models. This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.  IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AGI MIGHT HAVE AN EFFICIENCY PROBLEM 2. AGI VERSUS “ARTIFICIAL USEFUL INTELLIGENCE” 3. AGI’S “BAG

Good morning. Welcome to this special weekend edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with Miro. THE FUNDAMENTALS OF AI: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR WORK TODAY Most teams are experimenting with AI tools, but very few understand the core principles that make these tools useful. Without those fundamentals, outputs feel inconsistent, results vary, and the value never compounds. This guide highlights the essential skills that apply across every AI platform. Once you understand these basics, you can work effectively with any model, in any environment. Miro’s new “Fundamentals of AI” course teaches these skills in about 30 minutes. Register for free. ---------------------------------------- 1. UNDERSTAND WHAT AI

Welcome back. Google Cloud just partnered with Replit to bring "vibe coding" to businesses, letting non-coders build apps using chatbots. The phrase was coined by Andrej Karpathy, who warned it's "not really coding." He was proven right in July when a professional using Replit to vibe code accidentally deleted an entire company database and blamed the tool. Let's hope the enterprise version comes with better guardrails. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. EU LAUNCHES AI PLAN TO CATCH US AND CHINA 2. CAN CLIMATE TECH STARTUPS USE AI TO FIX AI? 3. LECUN'S 'WORLD MODELS' STARTUP IS META-FREE POLICY EU LAUNCHES AI PLAN TO CATCH US AND CHINA The

Welcome back. While OpenAI keeps signing aggressive deals to scale up its future computing power, Anthropic has quietly booked another big partnership aimed at helping businesses deploy AI in smart ways. The latest deal features enterprise data giant Snowflake. This one will allow Snowflake's 12,600 global customers running on Amazon, Microsoft, and Google clouds to deploy Anthropic AI agents while securely accessing enterprise data from Snowflake's databases. That's a powerful combination that could grow Anthropic's lead over OpenAI in the enterprise — where the real revenue is being made in AI right now. This deal also follows a series of

Welcome back. Anthropic has completed its first acquisition. The AI model firm announced Tuesday it has acquired Bun, a software development tools company, for an undisclosed sum. Anthropic has been using Bun for several months, and the acquisition gives the company direct control over the runtime powering its popular Claude Code offering, which reached $1 billion in run-rate revenue just 6 months after launch. It's the first of what may be several acquisitions to come from Anthropic as it seeks to strengthen its coding tools, which bring in a significant share of its revenue. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OPENAI TOPS LEADERBOARD OF

Welcome back. Just as new reports strongly suggested that OpenAI was about to roll out advertising on ChatGPT to accelerate the company's revenue growth, Sam Altman tapped the brakes on ads and other initiatives. According to The Information, the OpenAI CEO declared a "code red" to his staff on Monday. He rallied the team around one idea: improving ChatGPT to meet the challenges posed by competitors. It's the latest development in a surprising turnaround in the AI space. In August, OpenAI released its latest flagship model, GPT-5, which failed to deliver the same level of advances as previous models. This

Welcome back. DeepSeek is beating out mathletes. The Chinese AI firm’s new model, DeepSeekMath-V2, scored gold medal results at this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad. The model scored 118 out of 120 points in the competition, beating the best human result of 90 points. The model’s success at being a nerd signals that Chinese AI efforts are quickly catching up to US competition, as OpenAI and Google DeepMind report that their own models also scored gold medal status at solving. International Mathematical Olympiad problems this year. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. RESEARCH FINDS AI IS READY TO DISPLACE JOBS 2. AI CRUNCHES THE MEMORY CHIP

Welcome Back. Happy Black Friday. We hope you’re having a Happy Thanksgiving! AI firms and retailers are betting big that AI will change the way consumers shop, from shopping assistants within app interfaces to built-in chatbots on your favorite retail sites. But consumer adoption is still up in the air.  IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI CHATBOTS DO YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING 2. E-COMMERCE, RETAIL BRANDS LEAN ON AI 3. FOR CONSUMERS, AI SHOPPING IS A MIXED BAG PRODUCTS AI CHATBOTS DO YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING As AI firms scramble for consistent streams of revenue, some might be eyeing your Christmas list. Model developers are targeting online shopping as a means

Welcome back.  AI is getting bougie. TikTok is moving into luxury retail, offering resold products from retailers like Hermes, Chanel and Louis Vuitton on its TikTok Shop marketplace with the help of AI to authenticate the items. Entrupy, the AI platform that performs the authentication, trained its model on thousands of images that it collected over a decade of both real high-end goods and incredibly realistic fakes. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. NVIDIA CLUTCHES ITS CROWN 2. TRUMP’S ‘GENESIS MISSION’ HIGHLIGHTS CHINA'S AI BATTLE 3. SUNO, WMG SETTLE LAWSUIT INFRASTRUCTURE NVIDIA CLUTCHES ITS CROWN Google isn’t only making OpenAI nervous.  The search giant is reportedly in talks with Meta

Welcome back. On Monday, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5, the latest model in its Claude family to hit the market, as well as broad availability of integrations for Excel and Chrome. The model features state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks including coding, tool use and problem solving. It also features an improvement to particularly long conversations called “context compaction,” which essentially allows Opus 4.5 to talk for longer. Overall, Anthropic said, its newest model “runs longer, does more, and requires less intervention.” Still, the company faces an increasingly crowded market as competitors like OpenAI and Google release their own state-of-the-art models at

Welcome back. AI still has a sycophancy problem. But for Elon Musk, that might not be a problem: Following the release of Gok 4.1, xAI’s flagship model is singing his praises all over X, claiming the CEO could beat Peyton Manning as a quarterback, out-strut Naomi Campbell on the runway, or produce better masterpieces than Vincent van Gogh. The only person who sits above Musk in Grok’s loving eyes seems to be Shohei Ohtani, with the model calling the pitcher a “generational talent.” After winning the World Series, even Grok can’t dispute that the Dodgers are the best. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.

Good morning. Welcome to this special weekend edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with CodeRabbit. CUT CODE REVIEW TIME & BUGS IN HALF Ask any engineering leader where their team loses most time and you will hear the same answer. Senior engineers spend hours on code reviews instead of on architecture and onboarding. Code reviews are critical but time-consuming. CodeRabbit acts as your AI co-pilot, providing instant Code review comments and potential impacts of every pull request.  Beyond just flagging issues, CodeRabbit provides one-click fix suggestions and lets you define custom code quality rules using AST Grep patterns, catching subtle issues that traditional

Welcome back. AI might be good enough to be your lab partner, but it can’t take the lead on the group project yet. Research released by OpenAI on Thursday found that GPT-5 is able to “shorten parts of the research workflow” when used by experts, showing particular capabilities in conceptual literature search, mathematics, theoretical computer science, biology and other sciences, However, this model can’t solve scientific research or run projects autonomously.  IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI REGULATION KEEPS GETTING TRICKIER 2. IS NVIDIA AN AI BUBBLE INDICATOR? 3. GOOGLE TRACKS ITS OWN DEEPFAKES POLICY AI REGULATION KEEPS GETTING TRICKIER The AI regulatory landscape is getting stickier by

Welcome Back. The question of the looming AI bubble has been on the mind of everyone in tech. However, we might not be in an AI bubble, but rather an “LLM Bubble,” according to Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face. At an Axios event this week, Delangue said that large language models, like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, are getting more attention than they’re worth, predicting that it might burst next year.  IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. KIDS SHOULDN’T USE CHATBOTS (BUT WILL ANYWAYS) 2. SUNO RAISE HIGHLIGHTS AI BUBBLING IN MUSIC INDUSTRY 3. DEEPMIND SETS UP SHOP IN SINGAPORE GOVERNANCE KIDS SHOULDN’T USE CHATBOTS (BUT WILL ANYWAYS) The

Welcome Back. Microsoft is playing the field. The company announced on Tuesday that it would invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, the biggest rival of OpenAI. The partnership, which also includes a $10 billion investment from Nvidia in the startup, also brings Anthropic’s Claude family of models to Azure customers through Microsoft Foundry, with Microsoft committing up to one gigawatt of compute into making sure the integration runs smoothly. The move highlights that, while OpenAI and Microsoft were once a power couple, both firms want to avoid putting all their eggs in one basket. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. GOOGLE UNVEILS GEMINI