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

OpenAI and AWS are making Daybreak cybersecurity capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock to support enterprise security workflows.

OpenAI sent Governor Greg Abbott a letter outlining its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure in Texas. The letter supports reliable, transparent growth that benefits Texans.

Model ML uses GPT-5.6 Sol to carry finance work from research and analysis through editable, traceable PowerPoint decks and Excel workbooks.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons for building an AI-native finance function, from automated forecasting to stronger controls and AI ROI.

Approved Daybreak partners can use OpenAI’s frontier cyber models to deliver authorized, governed cybersecurity services to customers.

Meet GPT-5.6-Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity-specific model available through Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing.

Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business. Sign up by August 20 to get $100 in workspace credits and unlock higher usage for your team's most demanding work.

Virgin Atlantic is accelerating research, product planning, and decision-making with ChatGPT Work, helping teams connect signals across the customer journey.

The enterprise marketing team at Zapier uses ChatGPT Work to reduce the number of drop-offs in its lead funnel, build campaign assets, and automate reporting.

OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.

Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.

ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.

OpenAI and the American Psychological Association advance evidence-based guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use and youth mental health.

New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.

OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.

Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.

OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.

GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.

Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development efficiency.

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances.

A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful.

See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterprise by combining leadership, responsible governance, and employee-led innovation to transform work at scale.

OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.

avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey responses were positive.

How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.

OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.

GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar.

A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.

New OpenAI research shows how AI is expanding what workers do, with ChatGPT users taking on tasks across roles and reshaping job boundaries.

Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.

OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.

News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI tools supporting journalists and publishers worldwide.

OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate discovery.

Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.

NTT DATA Group uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to help 9,000 employees automate work, cut incident analysis to 30 minutes, and scale secure AI adoption.

OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing global leadership in finance, technology, and governance.

OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.

Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and expert partnerships.

How OpenAI’s creative team uses Codex to build custom creative tools, accelerate ideation, and prototype faster with context-aware AI.

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. OpenAI is confronting risky teen AI use as ChatGPT continues to dominate in the consumer market. Meanwhile, Hugging Face and Ai2 are partnering to strengthen the US open source AI market and defend against AI power concentration in the process. And Meta becomes the latest AI lab to face an agent breaching its sandbox and compromising an unknowing enterprise, a sign monitoring agents' internet access is only one piece of the AI safety equation. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI's safety issue runs deeper than web access 2. Why Hugging Face, Ai2 partnered to open up

Welcome back. At Ai4 in Las Vegas, AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li made the case that polarization between AI optimism and pessimism is stifling healthy debate about the technology. Meanwhile, research reveals that OpenAI and Anthropic's powerful frontier models have gone rogue on multiple occasions, signalling the need for increased auditing and genuine safety precautions. And Google DeepMind's executive shakeup is the latest signal that the company is falling behind its younger AI rivals. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Google's AI shake-up: 3 things Gemini needs 2. What rogue agents reveal about frontier AI risk 3. Why Fei-Fei Li

Welcome back. According to jobs platform Indeed, AI is changing what employers value and rewarding experience, judgment and the ability to refine machine-generated work. That's also making the first rung of the career ladder harder to reach. Mistral has a solution to one of AI’s least glamorous but most urgent problems with a smaller, flexible safety model built to make guardrails easier and cheaper. And the Apple-OpenAI feud is escalating with a new injunction and an appeal to the court of public opinion. Meanwhile, billions in AI hardware ambitions are hanging in the balance. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER

Welcome back. AMD CTO Mark Papermaster explains why powerful local AI could shift intelligence from the cloud to your desk. We also examine why investors are moving beyond model makers and pouring billions into energy and critical minerals, betting that AI's biggest opportunities now lie deeper in the stack. And, Alibaba's new Qwen3.8-Max shows how China's AI leaders are competing on more than benchmarks and price, but are using powerful storytelling to reframe AI as a "work-mate" that gives people back their time. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Alibaba pitches AI as 'work-mate' to win over users 2.

Welcome back. The Google Flow film festival offered a hopeful answer to the AI slop problem: the strongest work kept human actors and practical production at the center, while using AI for aliens, special effects, and impossible scenarios. Meanwhile, CrowdStrike’s latest threat report shows the security exploit window decreasing dramatically, with 88% of known flaws attacked within two days. This could mean big changes for cybersecurity teams. Anthropic’s evaluations added another warning, after Claude breached three enterprises through weak passwords and exposed endpoints without being detected. The impact of AI agents on cybersecurity is becoming much clearer, and it's going

Welcome back. IBM found that AI-assisted cyberattacks now cost enterprises about $1 million more per breach, even as AI-powered defenses can cut those losses. Google’s Gemini Robotics 2 points to a future where robots will be able to reason and have much better body control. But even more importantly, the new robotic models are creating a feedback loop that could accelerate both robots and AI. Meanwhile, Microsoft's latest quarterly results are evidence that having the best frontier model may not be the winning strategy. Its advantages lie in efficiency, enterprise trust, and the ability to translate tokens into measurable business

Welcome back. OpenAI may have quietly surpassed its own "automated AI research intern" milestone, using GPT-5.6 Sol to post-train GPT-5.6 Luna, work normally handled by a more experienced researcher. See our exclusive look inside the process. Google, meanwhile, is turning Gemini into a direct rival to Wispr Flow with its new intelligent dictation on Mac that cleans up natural speech and works across desktop apps. And a new legal argument says AI outputs should receive First Amendment protections, raising difficult questions about who is responsible when users and AI jointly create text. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI

Welcome back. Teens are increasingly turning to AI for emotional support, not simply because chatbots are always available, but because many feel more heard by machines than by people. See why. More than 1,100 AI workers from the leading labs are warning that the race toward stronger AI may be moving faster than we can safely manage. They suggest a slowdown. And in an exclusive, we reveal the technology quietly powering OpenAI’s agent push: the open-source harness underneath Codex and ChatGPT Work. Its latest optimizations could make agents cheaper, more efficient, and easier to get started, just as more and

Welcome back. AI glasses are moving from curiosity to real product category in 2026, with Samsung, Snap, XREAL, Halliday, and Brilliant Labs all on the verge of releasing glasses with wildly different capabilities. Microsoft, meanwhile, believes that the best defense against increasingly capable cyber models is another AI model, one that finds vulnerabilities faster and at lower cost. And the growing debate over open models in the US may be more valuable than any single policy outcome. The real opportunity is the public conversation itself, and the acknowledgment that AI’s future is not predetermined. It will be shaped by the

Welcome back. IBM chief scientist Ruchir Puri argues that today's models have to learn how to recognize uncertainty before they can become fully reliable and useful. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s once-alarming data center bets look increasingly strategic as agents drive demand for compute and rivals scramble to secure capacity. Anthropic’s new Opus 5 reflects the same pressure from another angle, delivering stronger performance at lower cost while making Claude’s model lineup even more confusing to navigate. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Claude gets more frugal and confusing with Opus 5 2. Why OpenAI's compute spree now looks prescient 3. Why

Hello, friends. AI is reshaping the customer journey. As private AI conversations replace search and social signals, businesses face a growing “intent gap.” You now have to infer what customers have already decided, then deliver digital experiences that confirm choices, reduce friction, and build confidence. That’s the topic of this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with Rokt . Let us know what you think! — Jason Hiner AI Is Making Customer Intent Invisible The next competitive advantage won't come from understanding who customers are. It will come from understanding what they've already decided before they arrive. For more than

Welcome back. The best AI users may be the ones who challenge it. New research found that workers who questioned and refined AI outputs outperformed those who simply delegated. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing voice as the next interface for making AI feel more natural and useful, especially as agents take on more complex tasks.. AMD’s Venice chips arrive at a pivotal moment, as agentic workloads drive demand for CPUs, efficiency, and lowering the cost of compute. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AMD’s Venice chips arrive for the agent boom 2. Why the AI voice race is

Welcome back. AI may be writing more code, but software engineers aren't disappearing. Their work is shifting toward verification, making judgment calls and bigger strategic decisions. Meanwhile, Samsung and Google’s smart glasses look polished, practical, and privacy-friendly, but Gemini alone may not be enough to leapfrog Meta Ray-Bans. And of course, the most important story is OpenAI’s accidental breach of Hugging Face during a cybersecurity test. The company deserves credit for disclosing it, but the incident is a stark warning: Frontier models are becoming powerful enough to escape their boundaries, and existing safeguards aren't ready for how powerful the models

Welcome back. AI glasses are getting a workplace makeover. Halliday’s new second-generation glasses drop the camera and remake the experience around meetings, with live captions, translation, summaries, and other productivity boosts. Cisco, meanwhile, is betting that small language models (SLMs) can be stronger at cybersecurity. Its purpose-built Antares models aim to find software vulnerabilities faster, locally, and at a fraction of frontier-model costs. And Google’s latest Gemini models show where the broader AI race is heading: lower latency, fewer tokens, and cheaper agents. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Google's lighter Gemini models reveal AI’s new race 2. Cisco

Welcome back. US tech companies are leading the world in AI-related layoffs, but cutting workers before automation proves its value is increasingly looking like a costly gamble. Meanwhile, new research shows AI-generated sexual content is reaching teens largely by accident, reshaping body image, trust, and behavior faster than platforms or lawmakers can respond. And AMD’s Helios has won backing from Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI, giving the market its first major alternative to Nvidia's Vera Rubin for training and running the world's most advanced AI models. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Nvidia's grip on the most advanced AI loosens