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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

GPT-5.1 is now available in the API, bringing faster adaptive reasoning, extended prompt caching, improved coding performance, and new apply_patch and shell tools.

Philips is scaling AI literacy with ChatGPT Enterprise, training 70,000 employees to use AI responsibly and improve healthcare outcomes worldwide.

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.

Neuro uses ChatGPT Business to scale nationwide with fewer than seventy employees. From drafting contracts to uncovering insights in customer data, the team saves time, cuts costs, and turns ideas into growth.

OpenAI is fighting the New York Times’ demand for 20 million private ChatGPT conversations and accelerating new security and privacy protections to protect your data.

We’re upgrading the GPT-5 series with warmer, more capable models and new ways to customize ChatGPT’s tone and style. GPT-5.1 starts rolling out today to paid users.

This GPT-5 system card addendum provides updated safety metrics for GPT-5.1 Instant and Thinking, including new evaluations for mental health and emotional reliance.

OpenAI is offering U.S. servicemembers and veterans within 12 months of retirement or separation a free year of ChatGPT Plus to support their transition to civilian life. The tools can help with resumes, interviews, education, and planning for what’s next.

Prompt injections are a frontier security challenge for AI systems. Learn how these attacks work and how OpenAI is advancing research, training models, and building safeguards for users.

Discover how Notion rebuilt its AI architecture with GPT-5 to create autonomous agents that reason, act, and adapt across workflows. Learn how this shift unlocked smarter, faster, and more flexible productivity in Notion 3.0.

BBVA is reimagining how employees work with ChatGPT Enterprise, embedding AI into everyday operations. The bank has saved hours per week per employee, created 20,000+ Custom GPTs, and achieved up to 80% efficiency gains.

Discover OpenAI’s Teen Safety Blueprint—a roadmap for building AI responsibly with safeguards, age-appropriate design, and collaboration to protect and empower young people online.

AI is advancing fast. We have the chance to shape its progress—toward discovery, safety, and a better future for everyone.

CRED is transforming premium customer experiences in India with OpenAI. Using GPT-powered tools, the company is improving support accuracy, reducing response times, and boosting customer satisfaction.

Vineet Mehra, Chief Marketing Officer at Chime, shares how AI is reshaping marketing into an agent-driven discipline. He explains why CMOs who champion AI literacy and thoughtful adoption will lead in the new era of growth.

More than 1 million business customers around the world now use OpenAI. Across healthcare, life sciences, financial services, and more, ChatGPT and our APIs are driving a new era of intelligent, AI-powered work.

Brazil is now one of the most engaged countries in the world when it comes to AI. From classrooms to farms and small businesses, Brazilians are using OpenAI products to learn, create, and drive innovation.

OpenAI introduces IndQA, a new benchmark for evaluating AI systems in Indian languages. Built with domain experts, IndQA tests cultural understanding and reasoning across 12 languages and 10 knowledge areas.

OpenAI and AWS have entered a multi-year, $38 billion partnership to scale advanced AI workloads. AWS will provide world-class infrastructure and compute capacity to power OpenAI’s next generation of models.

OpenAI is expanding Stargate to Michigan with a new one-gigawatt campus that strengthens America’s AI infrastructure. The project will create jobs, drive investment, and support economic growth across the Midwest.

OpenAI introduces Aardvark, an AI-powered security researcher that autonomously finds, validates, and helps fix software vulnerabilities at scale. The system is in private beta—sign up to join early testing.

A deep dive into OWL, the new architecture powering ChatGPT Atlas—decoupling Chromium, enabling fast startup, rich UI, and agentic browsing with ChatGPT.

gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b are two open-weight reasoning models post-trained from the gpt-oss models and trained to reason from a provided policy in order to label content under that policy. In this report, we describe gpt-oss-safeguard’s capabilities and provide our baseline safety evaluations on the gpt-oss-safeguard models, using the underlying gpt-oss models as a baseline. For more information about the development and architecture of the underlying gpt-oss models, see the original gpt-oss model model card⁠.

OpenAI introduces gpt-oss-safeguard—open-weight reasoning models for safety classification that let developers apply and iterate on custom policies.

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise across ten core departments to drive companywide adoption. Within three months, it achieved 95% faster patent research, 10x processing volume, 100% weekly active usage, 87% automation, and 70% knowledge reuse.

Discover how Doppel uses OpenAI’s GPT-5 and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) to stop deepfake and impersonation attacks before they spread, cutting analyst workloads by 80% and reducing threat response from hours to minutes.

Microsoft and OpenAI sign a new agreement that strengthens its long-term partnership, expands innovation, and ensures responsible AI progress.

OpenAI’s recapitalization strengthens mission-focused governance, expanding resources to ensure AI benefits everyone while advancing innovation responsibly.

Meeting the demands of the Intelligence Age will require strategic investment in energy and infrastructure. OpenAI’s submission to the White House details how expanding capacity and workforce readiness can sustain U.S. leadership in AI and economic growth.

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. 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

Welcome Back. Jeff Bezos is getting his hands dirty again. The Amazon founder is working on an AI startup called Project Prometheus, focusing on the physical AI applications like robotics and drug discovery. The company reportedly has $6.2 billion in funding, according to The New York Times. Bezos has been hands-off from formal operational roles since stepping down as Amazon CEO in July 2021. But amid the AI fray, it seems, he once again wants to do the work. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. PERPLEXITY, OPENAI VOTED FLOP RISKS AT AI CONFERENCE 2. AI STARTS TO THINK SMALLER 3. INVESTORS TURN ON NVIDIA MARKETS PERPLEXITY, OPENAI VOTED

Welcome back. Bye-bye, em dash. OpenAI now gives users the option to get rid of the “ChatGPT hyphen,” that pesky punctuation that gives away when your emails, essays or breakup texts were written by the popular chatbot. Users can now ask ChatGPT not to use em dashes in custom instructions, Altman said in an X post last week, calling it a “small-but-happy win” that the model “finally does what it's supposed to do.” IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI CODING TOOLS RAKE IN FUNDING 2. CIOS BUY INTO AGENTIC AI 3. HACKERS, ENTERPRISES GO HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH AI PRODUCTS AI CODING TOOLS RAKE IN FUNDING AI coding companies had

Welcome back. Agents are all the rage among enterprises. But to actually make use of these autonomous coworkers, they need to be built right and put to work in the right roles for effective outcomes, Madhav Thattai, COO and SVP of Agentforce at Salesforce, told The Deep View.  The Deep View sat down with Thattai to discuss all things agents, including the importance of starting with good data, their utility in customer experience, and why you shouldn’t deploy “AI for the sake of AI.” This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. TRUST, SCALE ARE FRONT AND CENTER

Good morning. Welcome to this special weekend edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with StackAI. THE CIO’S ROADMAP TO ENTERPRISE AI TRANSFORMATION: EIGHT ESSENTIAL STEPS FROM PILOT TO PRODUCTION Everyone talks about deploying AI. Few know how to actually make it work. For most enterprises, “AI transformation” stops at a proof of concept: pilots never scale, governance gets messy, and ROI remains abstract. This guide covers the eight concrete steps that every CIO should follow to implement AI solutions effectively, securely, and for the fastest time to value—including videos, whitepapers, templates, and more.  🔗StackAI is the all-in-one enterprise AI transformation platform, combining the ease of

Welcome back. OpenAI and the New York Times are beefing. On Wednesday, the AI firm slammed the copyright lawsuit brought against it by the newspaper and other news organizations, urging the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to reverse an order that would force it to cough up 20 million user chats, calling the request an “overreach.” In a filing, the company argued that “more than 99.99%” of the chats have nothing to do with the case, and that these chats should instead be treated like private emails. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI COULD CAUSE A POWER SHORTFALL 2.

Welcome back. The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence just launched PAN, a state-of-the-art world model. In today’s newsletter, we dive into all things world models. A quick thank you to the MBZUAI team for giving us the scoop on this, and for sponsoring today’s edition. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. WHY WORLD MODELS COULD BE THE FUTURE OF AI 2. INSIDE MBZUAI’S NEXT-GENERATION WORLD MODEL 3. THE DAUNTING TASK OF SIMULATING REALITY FRONTIER AI WHY WORLD MODELS COULD BE THE FUTURE OF AI Today’s most popular AI models are great with words.  But when given tasks beyond letters and numbers, these models often fail to grasp the

Welcome back. Anthropic might be close to returns. According to The Wall Street Journal, the AI firm is on pace to break even by 2028. The forecast is a stark contrast to that of its rival OpenAI, which predicts its operating losses to sit at $74 billion in that year, largely due to the massive cash it’s plunging into AI infrastructure. Though OpenAI expects to hit profitability in 2030, the company will spend 14 times as much money as Anthropic by then to get to that point. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.  TECH FIRMS SEEK OVERSEAS DATA CENTER DOMINANCE 2. OPENAI LOSES GERMAN MUSIC

Welcome back. OpenAI wants to get fit. The company is reportedly exploring a move into consumer health apps, following in the footsteps of its Big Tech brethren, including Apple, Google and Amazon. According to Business Insider, the company is exploring several opportunities, including a personal health assistant and a health data aggregator.  It marks another move in OpenAI’s quest to be the Barbie of AI companies: capable of doing every job, including doctor, movie star and, now, fitness instructor. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. EU COULD LOOSEN PRIVACY, TECH REGULATIONS 2. GOOGLE EYES MAPS FOR AI INTEGRATIONS 3. AI NEEDS TO DO MORE THAN TALK POLICY EU

Welcome Back. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abruptly issued a subpoena on stage during a talk with basketball coach Steve Kerr. The man who issued the papers climbed on stage and yelled that he had a “subpoena for Sam Altman,” in front of a booing crowd. While Altman refused to take the papers, the man was an employee working for the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, serving Altman because is a “potential witness in a pending criminal case.” An activist group called “Stop AI” claimed the subpoena in a post on X. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. TECH FIRMS FORGE AHEAD ON SUPERINTELLIGENCE 2.

Welcome back. Vibe coding emerged this year as a way to supercharge development teams, bringing code creation and productivity to new heights. But to see further benefits, enterprises may need to look beyond ways to speed up developers and by democratizing vibe-coding tools to the whole workforce, Vercel CTO Malte Ubl tells The Deep View.  The Deep View sat down with Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, to discuss where AI and agents fit into development teams and beyond, the importance of having a human in the loop, and how vibe coding can benefit enterprises when used by non-technical staff. Ubl has

Good morning. Welcome to this special weekend edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with Bland. WHEN EXECUTIVES ASK FOR PROOF, THIS AI COMPANY DELIVERS We found an AI company that’s giving executives what they’ve always asked for. Today, businesses all around the world are using conversational AI to handle things like lead qualification, appointment scheduling, and follow-up calls. But every company has always had the same problem when looking for AI solutions: They want full confidence that the solution will work for their use case before they commit. And as of lately, no company has offered them this confidence. Until now. Meet Bland – the

Welcome back. Elon Musk has taken another step towards trillionaire status. On Thursday, Tesla shareholders approved the CEO’s historic pay package worth almost $1 trillion, with 75% of voting shares supporting the decision. The pay package consists of 12 tranches of shares granted to Musk in exchange for hitting certain milestones over the next decade, with the first tranche being paid out if Tesla hits a $2 trillion market cap. In order for Musk to get the full amount, Tesla will need to hit a market cap of $8.5 trillion.  IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. PERPLEXITY, SNAP INK $400 MILLION PARTNERSHIP 2. OPENAI CLAIMS