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OpenAI acquires TBPN to accelerate global conversations around AI and support independent media, expanding dialogue with builders, businesses, and the broader tech community.

Codex now includes pay-as-you-go pricing for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise, providing teams a more flexible option to start and scale adoption.

Gradient Labs uses GPT-4.1 and GPT-5.4 mini and nano to power AI agents that automate banking support workflows with low latency and high reliability.

OpenAI raises $122 billion in new funding to expand frontier AI globally, invest in next-generation compute, and meet growing demand for ChatGPT, Codex, and enterprise AI.

AI for Disaster Response in Asia: OpenAI Workshop with Gates Foundation

Learn how STADLER uses ChatGPT to transform knowledge work, saving time and accelerating productivity across 650 employees.

Learn how OpenAI’s Model Spec serves as a public framework for model behavior, balancing safety, user freedom, and accountability as AI systems advance.

OpenAI launches a Safety Bug Bounty program to identify AI abuse and safety risks, including agentic vulnerabilities, prompt injection, and data exfiltration.

OpenAI releases prompt-based teen safety policies for developers using gpt-oss-safeguard, helping moderate age-specific risks in AI systems.

ChatGPT introduces richer, visually immersive shopping powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol, enabling product discovery, side-by-side comparisons, and merchant integration.

The OpenAI Foundation announces plans to invest at least $1 billion in curing diseases, economic opportunity, AI resilience, and community programs.

To address the novel safety challenges posed by a state-of-the-art video model as well as a new social creation platform, we’ve built Sora 2 and the Sora app with safety at the foundation. Our approach is anchored in concrete protections.

How OpenAI uses chain-of-thought monitoring to study misalignment in internal coding agents—analyzing real-world deployments to detect risks and strengthen AI safety safeguards.

Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

OpenAI Japan announces the Japan Teen Safety Blueprint, introducing stronger age protections, parental controls, and well-being safeguards for teens using generative AI.

GPT-5.4 mini and nano are smaller, faster versions of GPT-5.4 optimized for coding, tool use, multimodal reasoning, and high-volume API and sub-agent workloads.

New research shows Americans send nearly 3 million daily messages to ChatGPT asking about compensation and earnings, helping close the wage information gap.

A deep dive into why Codex Security doesn’t rely on traditional SAST, instead using AI-driven constraint reasoning and validation to find real vulnerabilities with fewer false positives.

How ChatGPT defends against prompt injection and social engineering by constraining risky actions and protecting sensitive data in agent workflows.

How OpenAI built an agent runtime using the Responses API, shell tool, and hosted containers to run secure, scalable agents with files, tools, and state.

Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at scale.

IH-Challenge trains models to prioritize trusted instructions, improving instruction hierarchy, safety steerability, and resistance to prompt injection attacks.

ChatGPT introduces interactive visual explanations for math and science, helping students explore formulas, variables, and concepts in real time.

OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during development.

Codex Security is an AI application security agent that analyzes project context to detect, validate, and patch complex vulnerabilities with higher confidence and less noise.

By combining rigorous model evaluation, full-platform use of OpenAI, and agent workflows, Balyasny is reinventing investment research.

Using OpenAI reasoning models, Descript unlocked automatic localization of large content libraries without losing timing or meaning.

Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer use, tool search, and 1M-token context.

OpenAI introduces CoT-Control and finds reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, reinforcing monitorability as an AI safety safeguard.

OpenAI shares new tools, certifications, and measurement resources to help schools and universities close AI capability gaps and expand opportunity.

Practical insights and frameworks to turn AI progress into business advantage

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Excel and new financial app integrations, powered by GPT-5.4 to accelerate modeling, research, and analysis in regulated environments.

Five AI value models show how leaders can sequence AI from workforce fluency to process reinvention and build durable business advantage.

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

A new preprint extends single-minus amplitudes to gravitons, with GPT-5.2 Pro helping derive and verify nonzero graviton tree amplitudes in quantum gravity.

Axios COO Allison Murphy explains how the company uses AI to support local reporters, streamline newsroom workflows, and deliver high-impact local journalism at scale.

OpenAI introduces the Learning Outcomes Measurement Suite to assess AI’s impact on student learning across diverse educational environments over time.

Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety red lines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified environments.

Microsoft and OpenAI continue to work closely across research, engineering, and product development, building on years of deep collaboration and shared success.

Stateful Runtime for Agents in Amazon Bedrock brings persistent orchestration, memory, and secure execution to multi-step AI workflows powered by OpenAI.

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.

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

Hello, friends. Managing AI models is getting more challenging as engineering teams juggle multiple providers, rising costs, outages, and governance risks. Merge just launched its Gateway platform to centralize routing, control spend, and log every model decision in one place, turning a messy layer of AI infrastructure into something more accountable. Thanks for tuning into this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with Merge. Let us know what you think! —Jason Hiner CONTROL LLM RELIABILITY AND SPEND FROM ONE PLACE Every model provider your engineering team integrates with comes with its own API,  rate limits, failure modes, and bill.  This leads to fragmented

Hello, friends. Google is reframing the AI race with Gemma 4, betting that smaller, efficient models can outperform larger ones where it matters: cost, latency, and real-world deployment. Box makes the case that context, not models, will define enterprise AI, turning models into interchangeable commodities behind a secure data layer. And Anthropic’s latest research is a reminder that AI’s human-like emotional language can mislead people. As these systems grow more powerful and persuasive, understanding their limits may matter as much as tapping into their latest capabilities. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI FAKES EMOTION, BUT THE CONSEQUENCES ARE REAL 2. GOOGLE RETHINKS

Welcome back. AI coding is reshaping hiring faster than expected, with most engineers now working alongside agents and shipping AI-generated code into production. And surprise, surprise: That shift is expanding demand for developers, not shrinking it. Apple, meanwhile, is tightening control over vibe-coded apps that bypass its review process, signaling how seriously it remains about security and platform control. And Anthropic is dealing with fallout from its major Claude Code leak that exposed its secret sauce and future plans. As AI scales, process failures and trust gaps may matter as much as model breakthroughs. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. CLAUDE CODE

Welcome back. Google is moving in to fill the void in AI video, cutting Veo prices as OpenAI retreats from Sora and redirects its compute. Slack, meanwhile, wants to make a case for becoming the central AI workspace by upgrading its Slackbot to handle meeting notes, desktop actions, and deeper access to tools. But the biggest story is what comes next from OpenAI and Anthropic. Their next models look poised to push agents into a more powerful phase that could unleash both incredible productivity gains and enormous cybersecurity risks. The next leap in AI is bearing down on us. —Jason

Welcome back. Snowflake's VP of AI told us the company is further along in its AI transformation than most people realize, and that the SaaSpocalypse may actually be Snowflake's big moment. Meanwhile, the AI narrative is fracturing on multiple fronts. A new Quinnipiac poll of 1,400 Americans finds 55% believe AI does more harm than good, up 11% year-over-year. And the rest of the data in the study doesn't paint a pretty picture either. If you're looking for a way to help friends and family get real value from AI right now, I have four tools worth recommending to anyone.

Hello, friends. Snowflake is quietly reinventing itself for the AI era by giving coding tools to every employee, launching new AI agents, and rethinking data governance from the ground up. This week’s conversation digs into how a stalwart SaaS giant is using AI not just to survive the SaaSpocalypse, but to emerge as an AI leader on the other side. Thank you to Airia for sponsoring this episode. —Jason Hiner AI LIFTS SNOWFLAKE AS SAASPOCALYPSE SPREADS Snowflake has been a stalwart of the SaaS economy and a leader in enterprise data for the past decade. But the company is deep in the middle

Welcome back. Reddit and Wikipedia are drawing hard lines against AI-generated content while also licensing their data to AI labs to train models. The irony is hard to miss. With new Codex plugins, OpenAI keeps getting more serious about enterprise, pivoting from novelty to utility. And Claude's meteoric growth is hitting real-world limits. Its outages have dropped uptime below 99% and its new peak-hour usage rates amount to surge pricing for chatbots. Growth is great until infrastructure can't keep up. All three stories point to a common trend: AI is maturing fast, and the friction is showing. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S

Welcome back. As chatbots and agents sound more human-like, people keep mistaking their quirks for consciousness, which makes AI literacy more urgent than ever. AI may get dramatically cheaper to run by 2030, but that does not mean enterprises will automatically pay less. Agents will keep driving token demand higher. That will force companies to match the right models to the right jobs in much smarter ways. Apple may have found its smartest AI play yet: be the best AI interface and run all the models. This would turn Siri into a platform that routes to the best AI models

Welcome back. OpenAI’s decision to shut down Sora shows how quickly the AI market is narrowing to products with a clear revenue trajectory, leaving the AI video market to rivals better positioned than xAI—no matter how bad they want it. Mistral, on the other hand, is prioritizing voice AI, with a lean text-to-speech model to pursue a hands-free future and boost productivity. And in my conversation with Neurometric CEO Rob May, one theme came through clearly: the era of one giant model doing everything is over. Small, task-specific models are emerging as one of the most effective ways to cut

Welcome back.  Microsoft’s move to lease 700 megawatts of former OpenAI and Oracle capacity in Texas is a reminder that the AI infrastructure race is bigger than any one company, and that power has become the industry’s scarcest asset. Meanwhile, the White House is trying to narrow the AI skills gap by offering a free, text-based course to make AI more accessible to workers across the U.S. And OpenAI is putting $1 billion into philanthropy aimed at mitigating AI’s harms, which could also quietly reinforce the broader narrative that ever more powerful systems will ultimately serve the public good. —Jason

Welcome back. OpenAI is looking to fusion power as a possible answer to AI’s growing energy dilemma. This is the latest sign of how urgent the infrastructure race has become. Cisco’s new LLM security rankings are out, and Anthropic has claimed 8 of the top 10 spots, putting pressure on its rivals to prove their models are enterprise-ready. Also, don't forget to check out who's in the bottom 10. The war in Iran shows how exposed the tech industry really is. The dangers to tech workers, chip supply chains, and data center projects are a reminder that geopolitics and global

Welcome back. Anthropic keeps pushing Claude deeper into daily work, adding Projects to Cowork so you can organize files and tasks locally while keeping more control over your data. We also look at DoorDash’s new move to pay workers for real-world AI training, and explain why the privacy trade-offs deserve a hard second look before you opt in. And for readers asking which AI voice tools are worth using, we break down three favorites from our team: Otter for transcription, Granola for meeting notes, and Wispr Flow for productivity. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. DOORDASH PAYS YOU TO TRAIN AI. READ

When I think about the grand promise of AI, I think about a TikTok that recording artist Grimes posted in 2021.  In the video, the musician makes the bombastic argument that AI will enable the “fastest path to communism,” painting the picture of a utopia in which no one has to work, farming and production are automated, and corruption is rooted out, asserting that the tech could “solve for abundance.”  When I first watched this in 2021, I thought what everyone else thought: That’s just Grimes being Grimes. Five years later, I look at an industry that has completely taken over the

Welcome back.  IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. U.S. UNVEILS AI PLAN, GOVERNANCE DEBATE BEGINS 2. MICROSOFT PUSHES INTO TOP TIER OF IMAGE AI 3. STUDY: AI RESHAPES CYBERSECURITY PRIORITIES GOVERNANCE NEW U.S. AI FRAMEWORK DEEPENS POLICY TENSIONS As AI capabilities grow at an exponential rate, U.S. regulators have proposed a federal framework to regulate the technology and preempt state laws. On Friday, the White House released its long-awaited National AI Policy Framework, a pitch that aims to declaw state regulatory efforts, with the administration claiming these laws “impose undue burdens” and looking to replace them with “minimally burdensome” regulation.  Though the document claims that a national standard should “respect key

Hello, friends. Our latest podcast episode explores the playbook for using AI to make teams far more capable, not just more efficient. We look at personalized event design, rapid prototyping through vibe coding, and leadership principles for the AI era. The bigger lesson is that real AI progress comes from applying it consistently with intention. Thank you to our friends at Deel for sponsoring this week’s show. And as always, let us know if you have any feedback. —Jason Hiner HOW TO TURN EVERY EMPLOYEE INTO A 10X ENGINEER Stefan Weitz thinks AI should not just make companies faster. It should make