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By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff

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

OpenAI for Government announces the deployment of a custom ChatGPT on GenAI.mil, bringing secure, safety-forward AI to U.S. defense teams.

OpenAI shares its approach to AI localization, showing how globally shared frontier models can be adapted to local languages, laws, and cultures without compromising safety.

An autonomous lab combining OpenAI’s GPT-5 with Ginkgo Bioworks’ cloud automation cut cell-free protein synthesis costs by 40% through closed-loop experimentation.

OpenAI introduces Trusted Access for Cyber, a trust-based framework that expands access to frontier cyber capabilities while strengthening safeguards against misuse.

OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with shared context, onboarding, permissions, and governance.

A family shares how ChatGPT helped them prepare for critical cancer treatment decisions for their son alongside expert guidance from his doctors.

GPT-5.3-Codex is a Codex-native agent that pairs frontier coding performance with general reasoning to support long-horizon, real-world technical work.

GPT‑5.3-Codex is the most capable agentic coding model to date, combining the frontier coding performance of GPT‑5.2-Codex with the reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT‑5.2.

Learn how to embed the Codex agent using the Codex App Server, a bidirectional JSON-RPC API powering streaming progress, tool use, approvals, and diffs.

By focusing on people, not pilots, the Bundesliga club is scaling efficiency, creativity, and knowledge—without losing its football identity.

Discover the Sora feed philosophy—built to spark creativity, foster connections, and keep experiences safe with personalized recommendations, parental controls, and strong guardrails.

OpenAI and Snowflake partner in a $200M agreement to bring frontier intelligence into enterprise data, enabling AI agents and insights directly in Snowflake.

Introducing the Codex app for macOS—a command center for AI coding and software development with multiple agents, parallel workflows, and long-running tasks.

How OpenAI built an in-house AI data agent that uses GPT-5, Codex, and memory to reason over massive datasets and deliver reliable insights in minutes.

On February 13, 2026, alongside the previously announced retirement⁠ of GPT‑5 (Instant, Thinking, and Pro), we will retire GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini from ChatGPT. In the API, there are no changes at this time.

Taisei Corporation uses ChatGPT Enterprise to support HR-led talent development and scale generative AI across its global construction business.

OpenAI launches the EU Economic Blueprint 2.0 with new data, partnerships, and initiatives to accelerate AI adoption, skills, and growth across Europe.

Apply for the EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant, a €500,000 program funding NGOs and researchers advancing youth safety and wellbeing in the age of AI.

Learn how OpenAI protects user data when AI agents open links, preventing URL-based data exfiltration and prompt injection with built-in safeguards.

PVH Corp., parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, is adopting ChatGPT Enterprise to bring AI into fashion design, supply chain, and consumer engagement.

Prism is a free LaTeX-native workspace with GPT-5.2 built in, helping researchers write, collaborate, and reason in one place.

TRUSTBANK partnered with Recursive to build Choice AI using OpenAI models, delivering personalized, conversational recommendations that simplify Furusato Nozei gift discovery. A multi-agent system helps donors navigate thousands of options and find gifts that match their preferences.

Indeed’s CRO Maggie Hulce shares how AI is transforming job search, recruiting, and talent acquisition for employers and job seekers.

A technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API.

An inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation.

How Praktika uses GPT-4.1 and GPT-5.2 to build adaptive AI tutors that personalize lessons, track progress, and help learners achieve real-world language fluency

A data-driven report on how workers across industries use ChatGPT—covering adoption trends, top tasks, departmental patterns, and the future of AI at work.

Discover how Higgsfield gives creators cinematic, social-first video output from simple inputs using OpenAI GPT-4.1, GPT-5, and Sora 2.

Edu for Countries is a new OpenAI initiative helping governments use AI to modernize education systems and build future-ready workforces.

Our latest report reveals stark differences in advanced AI adoption across countries and outlines new initiatives to help nations capture productivity gains from AI.

OpenAI and the Gates Foundation launch Horizon 1000, a $50M pilot advancing AI capabilities for healthcare in Africa. The initiative aims to reach 1,000 clinics by 2028.

Stargate Community plans detail a community-first approach to AI infrastructure, using locally tailored plans shaped by community input, energy needs, and workforce priorities.

Cisco and OpenAI redefine enterprise engineering with Codex, an AI software agent embedded in workflows to speed builds, automate defect fixes, and enable AI-native development.

ServiceNow expands access to OpenAI frontier models to power AI-driven enterprise workflows, summarization, search, and voice across the ServiceNow Platform.

ChatGPT is rolling out age prediction to estimate if accounts are under or over 18, applying safeguards for teens and refining accuracy over time.

How AI can expand human agency by closing the capability overhang—helping people, businesses, and countries unlock real productivity, growth, and opportunity.

OpenAI’s business model scales with intelligence—spanning subscriptions, API, ads, commerce, and compute—driven by deepening ChatGPT adoption.

The truth left out from Elon Musk’s recent court filing.

ChatGPT Go is now available worldwide, offering expanded access to GPT-5.2 Instant, higher usage limits, and longer memory—making advanced AI more affordable globally.

OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.

OpenAI is investing in Merge Labs to support new brain computer interfaces that bridge biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency, and experience.

OpenAI launches a new RFP to strengthen the U.S. AI supply chain by accelerating domestic manufacturing, creating jobs, and scaling AI infrastructure.

OpenAI partners with Cerebras to add 750MW of high-speed AI compute, reducing inference latency and making ChatGPT faster for real-time AI workloads.

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

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

Welcome back. AI ran a lot of plays at the Super Bowl this year. Anthropic wanted everyone to know it's taking the high road on chatbot ads by taking a cheap shot at OpenAI. Meanwhile, nearly all of the leading AI companies had their own ads. Waymo unveiled a world model built on Google's Genie 3 and plans to use it to simulate rare and dangerous driving scenarios — giving world models one of their first clear real-world use cases. Apple's Tim Cook has signaled it's time for Apple to roll out AI devices, and The Deep View's Sabrina Ortiz

Hello friends. Welcome to a special edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with DEEL. AI AGENTS ARE MOVING FASTER THAN YOU THOUGHT AI agents in business aren't something that will happen in the future. They’re already here, and they're scaling a lot more rapidly than we expected. In this episode of The Deep View: Conversations, we talk to Matt Yanchyshyn, who leads AWS Marketplace at Amazon Web Services. Yanchyshyn's team helps organizations discover, buy, and deploy software on AWS, and one of the biggest shifts they’ve seen over the past six months is the explosion of AI agents in real-world use cases. When

Good morning. Welcome to this special weekend edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with Bright Data. AGENTS DON'T FAIL AT REASONING. THEY FAIL AT RETRIEVAL. The pitch for AI agents is compelling: systems that don't just answer questions, but actually do things. Research competitors. Monitor pricing. Find leads. Generate reports. The reality is messier. Most agents work fine in demos. Then they enter production and begin failing in ways that have nothing to do with the model. Blocked requests, Stale data, Rate limits, and sites that return different results based on location. CAPTCHAs. Sessions that drop mid-workflow. The bottleneck is access. ---------------------------------------- THE WEB WASN'T

Welcome back.  IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. CLAUDE 4.6 MATCHES OPENAI'S MULTI-AGENT UPGRADE 2. OPENAI JUST LAUNCHED ITS ANSWER TO CLAUDE COWORK 3. CHATGPT'S CANVA APP CAN NOW STAY ON-BRAND PRODUCTS CLAUDE 4.6 MATCHES OPENAI'S MULTI-AGENT UPGRADE As the industry anxiously awaits the release of Claude Sonnet 5, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 to match OpenAI's short-lived advantage in agents.  On Thursday, Anthropic released the latest update to its Claude model family, saying the model offers better coding and review skills, improved task planning, and can sustain agentic tasks for longer than its predecessor.  Alongside the launch, Anthropic unveiled a feature called “agent teams,” which gives users the ability to spin

Welcome back. Mistral AI dropped new voice models that run on-device, a real win for enterprises worried about privacy and cost. Microsoft's AI Red Team released research on detecting poisoned third-party models and practical methods to identify hidden backdoors. Anthropic has taken a stand against including ads in its chatbot, while taking shots at OpenAI. The real test will be how long Google can hold out before integrating ads into Gemini as chatbots eat into Google search. In its earnings beat on Wednesday, Google said search continues to grow, but that still appears destined to end as more users migrate

Welcome back. Apple just made another big AI move. Instead of building its own coding assistant, it's integrating Anthropic and OpenAI agents directly into Xcode 26.3. In 2024, I got a demo of Apple's in-house AI within Xcode. The one unveiled today is significantly better and will still give developers the tools they need within the Apple ecosystem. Meanwhile, Anthropic's latest research suggests AI risks look less like a Terminator event and more like industrial accidents. And Perplexity's data reveals that the AI market has splintered. No single model accounted for more than 17% of usage, with teams selecting different

Welcome back. This is turning into agent week at The Deep View. OpenAI is making Codex a command center where developers manage teams of agents rather than a single assistant. That's a profound shift. The ChatGPT-maker also released a new desktop Codex app for Mac and made Codex available for everyone to try (albeit for a limited time).  Meanwhile, Snowflake has leveraged its enterprise data advantage in AI to power its own agents that operate within its governed, enterprise-ready workflows. SpaceX has officially pulled xAI into its orbit, blending rockets, data centers, and AI ambitions in a deal that has

Welcome back. Anthropic’s got its eye on the red planet. On Friday, the company announced that it partnered with NASA to use its flagship Claude AI model to decide on a route for the Perseverance Rover on Mars. The journey took place in early December, in which JPL engineers used Claude to navigate a 400-meter path through rocky terrain on the surface of Mars. The route marked the first time a Martian rover’s commands were written by AI. It’s also the latest example of an AI firm targeting scientific research as a use case for its models. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN

Good morning. Welcome to this special weekend edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with Decagon. PEOPLE ONLINE ARE RAVING ABOUT THIS AI CONCIERGE If you’re planning to deal with a customer service issue later today, you’re probably already bracing for the pain: Long hold times. Endless ticket numbers. Copy-paste replies that don’t answer your question. Repeat. But recently, people online are suddenly raving about an AI concierge experience that’s popping up everywhere, from their banks to their rental cars to their Oura Ring. > Twitter tweet So what’s going on? And when will all of us get to experience this magic? The company behind

Hello friends. Welcome to a special edition of the newsletter, featuring the latest episode of our podcast, The Deep View: Conversations. HOW AI COULD RESHAPE HUMAN MEMORY AND ATTENTION AI could change the way we remember, and the way we pay attention. In Season 2, Episode 2 of The Deep View: Conversations, Editor-in-Chief Jason Hiner sits down with Bobak Tavangar, CEO of Brilliant Labs, one of the most intriguing startups in AI hardware today. While trillion-dollar giants like Meta and Google race to define the future of AI glasses, Brilliant Labs is taking a radically different path: building in public, going open-source with both software

Welcome back. In its second largest acquisition to date, Apple is spending $2 billion on Q.ai, an Israeli audio technology startup. The company reportedly develops tech that reads “silent speech,” watching for subtle shifts in facial expression to better process audio. The startup’s 100 employees will join Apple to support Siri and its wearable technology. It’s another sign that Apple is intent on outsourcing its AI efforts, such as in its recent partnership with Google to use Gemini to power Apple Intelligence. Despite Apple being laggard on AI thus far, CEO Tim Cook attempted to shore up investor confidence in

Welcome back. AI is getting starry-eyed. Astronomers at the European Space Agency used AI to unveil 800 previously undiscovered astrophysical anomalies within the Hubble telescope archives. The astronomers, David O’Ryan and Pablo Gómez, trained a model to dig through 35 years of the telescope’s archives and pick out things that were out of the ordinary. It’s the latest example of AI being used to expedite scientific development, with researchers using AI for everything from decoding the human genome to mapping earthquakes. No wonder OpenAI is eager to create AI-powered lab partners. —Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. STUDENTS USE “HUMANIZER” TOOLS FOR

Welcome back. AI tools with promises of optimizing workflows, streamlining efficiencies, and even reducing costs have been around for nearly three years–and enterprises are still buying them. A recent report from Salesforce-owned cloud data management company Informatica, published Tuesday, finds that AI adoption is still booming, with 69% of companies having integrated generative AI into their business practices in the past year. This, of course, isn’t without its challenges, with a little over half of the 600 leaders surveyed identifying data reliability as a top barrier to moving projects from pilot to production. Yet another example of how AI can

Welcome back. AI’s next leap isn’t just about bigger models, but smarter ones. Today, we've got an inside look at a breakthrough reasoning model that squeezes more performance out of fewer parameters. It's rare for efficiency, transparency, and capability to move forward together, but that's what we're seeing. MBZUAI’s K2 Think V2 is positioning itself as both a technical standout and a philosophical one, challenging assumptions about scale, openness, and control. We break down how its training approach cuts hallucinations, why its end-to-end openness matters in a market full of half-open claims, and what a “fully sovereign” model means for

Welcome back. World models are having a moment, and the AGI debate is full of more conflicting signals than ever. As investors pour billions into spatial intelligence, AI’s biggest thinkers are openly questioning whether LLMs alone will ever get us to general intelligence. Meanwhile, more AI agents are appearing in the real world: Amazon is rolling out personalized health agents in telemedicine, and Synthesia is betting big on video agents to retrain the enterprise workforce. Today's stories point to a clear shift: The next phase of AI isn’t just smarter chatbots. It’s systems that see, act, explain, and increasingly show