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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 ambition is outrunning reality, and AI safety is in the crosshairs again. The AI skills gold rush continues: enterprises are pouring millions into training and talent, yet economists argue AI added “basically zero” to U.S. GDP growth in 2025. Even OpenAI’s Brad Lightcap says true penetration into business processes has just begun. Meanwhile, Anthropic is loosening parts of its Responsible Scaling Policy while holding firm against U.S. government pressure to relax its safety measures. And finally, Quill’s new “Chief of AI Staff” bets the next agent wave will feel less like a self-driving car and more like

Welcome back. AI could supercharge growth or slowly destabilize the financial system, according to the viral "2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” document that maps out the worst-case scenarios of the current AI boom. New research suggests AI’s human-like behavior may be more default than design, raising fresh alignment questions. And in a sharp escalation, Anthropic accused leading Chinese labs of industrial-scale model theft to siphon Claude’s capabilities. But can Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google work together to fend off Chinese model makers from exfiltrating the frontier labs' crown jewels? It remains an open question. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. ANTHROPIC FLAGS CHINESE MODELS

Welcome back. Anthropic is tightening the bolts on AI-written software with a new security layer for Claude Code, aiming to catch vulnerabilities before they turn into unacceptable risks. Perplexity is backing away from ads and leaning into subscriptions and device partners to grow its revenue. And OpenAI is now potentially working on up to six different devices, from earbuds to lamps. Our closer look reveals one clear near-term standout in the race to embed ChatGPT into hardware. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OPENAI’S 6-DEVICE PUSH REVEALS A FRONTRUNNER 2. CLAUDE CODE ADDS AI-POWERED SECURITY LAYER 3. PERPLEXITY SHUNS ADS FOR ENTERPRISES, DEVICES CONSUMER OPENAI’S 6-DEVICE

Hello, friends. There’s value for everyone in the latest episode of our podcast. This conversation unpacks the hacking of human perception and the dangers it’s created. As AI fuels a narrative arms race, we explore what it means for cybersecurity, leadership, and the future of enterprise (and personal) defense. —Jason Hiner HOW PERCEPTION ITSELF BECAME AN ATTACK SURFACE In this episode of The Deep View: Conversations, I talked with Wasim Khaled, CEO of Blackbird AI, to explore a provocative idea: What happens when reality itself becomes hackable? Long before generative AI went mainstream, Wasim and his cofounder launched Blackbird to tackle disinformation and

Hello, friends. Trusted data is becoming the real gatekeeper of enterprise AI. This week, Quest unveiled a unified platform designed to clean up fragmented enterprise data and deliver AI-ready data at scale. The end game is to give enterprises the confidence to deploy AI agents and trust their outputs. This is a special weekend edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with Quest. Let us know what you think! —Jason Hiner QUEST DATA MANAGEMENT PLATFORM TACKLES AI’S BIGGEST BOTTLENECK Enterprises are eager to keep up with the rapid advances in AI. But there’s one major problem holding them back: Trusted data. Data readiness

Welcome back. Accenture is now tying employee promotions to AI use. Google is rolling out a professional AI certification. Both are examples of the real pressure on companies to close the AI skills gap. At the same time, the next leap in personal productivity is emerging: the AI chief of staff. As groups of specialized agents evolve into orchestrated teams, they promise to reclaim hours of our time and democratize capabilities once reserved for heads of state and CEOs. And Google is resetting the economics of AI with Gemini 3.1 Pro, raising the ceiling on performance while lowering the cost

Welcome back. Google could turn texting into a jukebox with Lyria 3, a tool that can spin up 30-second custom songs, complete with lyrics and album art, in 15 seconds or less. It’s fun and frictionless, but it deepens the copyright fight simmering across the music industry. Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs raised $1B, signaling that VCs are again betting big on world models and spatial intelligence as the next thing beyond LLMs. Apple is prepping three AI devices: glasses, AI-powered AirPods, and a pendant. But trust, execution, and the effectiveness of the Siri-Gemini integration will be the real tests of

Welcome back. Anthropic is pushing its best AI beyond the developer. With Sonnet 4.6, many of the capabilities of its flagship Opus model (coding, agents, and problem-solving) are now available at a lower price. But the big move is Anthropic targeting the use of its new model to check everyday tasks off your to-do list. At the same time, open models are rapidly gaining ground as Moonshot targets a $10B valuation and closes the gap on the proprietary labs. Within companies, developers are evolving from creative coders to AI orchestrators, reviewing machine-generated work created in a fraction of the time. —Jason

Welcome back. AI is colliding with government power, enterprise pressure, and the tool of the moment, all at once. SpaceX, xAI, and OpenAI are chasing lucrative Pentagon contracts while Anthropic resists loosening safety guardrails without specific assurances. CIOs are pouring money into AI but struggling to prove ROI, shifting the conversation from experimentation to accountability. And the rise of personal AI agents like OpenClaw is becoming the defining trend of 2026, but they're not ready for everyone. If FOMO is tempting you to install OpenClaw, we've got recommendations. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI COMPANIES COURT PENTAGON, ANTHROPIC RESISTS 2. CONFLICTING SIGNALS: AI

Welcome back. Personal AI agents just went mainstream. OpenAI is teaming up with OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger in a deal that could define 2026. OpenClaw has proven to be among the most capable AI agents we've seen so far, while also pioneering an interface breakthrough. Meanwhile, IBM is rewriting the entry-level job playbook, tripling its hiring of junior roles and shifting them toward human-centric work AI can’t replicate. And Meta is reportedly exploring facial recognition for its AI glasses, raising new privacy concerns in the race to own wearable AI. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OPENAI BETS BIG ON PERSONAL AI

Hello, friends. If you care about the ROI of AI projects, you’re going to love the latest episode of The Deep View: Conversations podcast. You’re also going to be introduced to one of the most outstanding communicators in the tech industry today. I can’t wait for you to watch this one. Let us know what you think! —Jason Hiner LESSONS FROM 587 C-SUITE AI MEETINGS What does it actually take for enterprises to adopt AI at scale? In this episode of The Deep View: Conversations, we interviewed Shibani Ahuja, Senior Vice President of Enterprise IT Strategy at Salesforce. Over the past year, Shibani

Hello, friends. Today, we’re doing a deep dive on Databao. The fault line in enterprise AI is not the models but the data they rely on. In this article, we dig into Databao’s thesis that if teams can’t agree on definitions, then AI will only scale the confusion. As we’ve heard many times, AI is only as good as the context you give it. This is a special weekend edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with Jetbrains. Let us know what you think! —Jason Hiner DATABAO SEES SHARED CONTEXT AS THE FOUNDATION OF AI TRUST There’s a quiet problem sitting

Welcome back. Apple’s long-promised Siri overhaul slips again, underscoring a familiar truth in AI: execution beats timelines. Anthropic, flush with a $30B fund-raising round and a $380B valuation, is investing in infrastructure, energy, and regulation to reinforce its ethical brand, even as pressure mounts to deliver returns. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Google warn that other labs are cloning their frontier models through distillation, raising fresh questions about guardrails, geopolitics, and the durability of the advantage for frontier labs. A familiar theme is emerging: in 2026, trust, control, and real-world performance will define the next phase of the AI race more than

Welcome back.  IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OPUS 4.6 SAFETY RISK IS LOW, BUT NOT ZERO 2. UBER IS TRYING TO AI-HACK YOUR GROCERY LIST 3. SPACEX + TESLA: HEADED FOR ONE CINEMATIC UNIVERSE? RESEARCH OPUS 4.6 SAFETY RISK IS LOW, BUT NOT ZERO Anthropic has long aimed to assure the public that it has safety well in hand. Now, it’s telling on itself.  Early Wednesday, the company published a report assessing the risk of Claude Opus 4.6, the latest iteration of its Opus model family and Anthropic’s smartest model to date. Anthropic claims that the “sabotage risk,” or risk that autonomous actions lead to catastrophic outcomes, is “very

Welcome back. AI isn’t just reshaping jobs, it’s quietly changing how much we work. A Harvard study shows AI adopters often end up with fuller plates, not lighter ones. Meanwhile, a former Anthropic employee explains why he left the AGI race to focus on applied AI and agents at Google, arguing that distribution and trust matter more than the superintelligence race. And Runway’s $315M fundraising round signals where investors think AI goes next: world models that understand physics, video, and reality itself. As we've been covering a lot on The Deep View, the post-LLM era is emerging, and it looks