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Introducing AI Futures, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.

With a fixed deadline and design resources committed elsewhere, Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days.

OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.

Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.

ChatGPT Ads is expanding to 31 European markets. Learn how advertisers can reach people as they explore, compare options, and make decisions.

OpenAI launches an initiative to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security, supporting government institutions with tools, training, and expertise.

OpenAI and CodeAI are partnering to help students build AI literacy, think critically about AI, and develop the skills to use and shape it responsibly.

OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.

ChatGPT for Teens helps teens learn, think critically, and use AI with confidence, with stronger built-in protections, healthy-use features, and additional controls for parents.

NVIDIA teams use ChatGPT Work to reduce manual tasks, connect fast-moving signals, and scale successful workflows globally.

Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K.

AI is reshaping cybersecurity for attackers and defenders alike. Learn how OpenAI is strengthening its defenses and what security teams can do now.

OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project, expanding community investment and supporting thousands of Southern Ohio jobs

OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.

Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities.

Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second.

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.

OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.

See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.

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 now available on ChatGPT Business, with 5x more usage, no five-hour usage limit, and flexible seat options for every teammate.

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.

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. New Pew data shows AI may be losing its most natural early adopters, with a majority of Americans under 30 now more concerned than excited about the technology. Snowflake thinks model routing can rein in soaring AI costs by matching each task with the right model instead of throwing frontier-level horsepower at everything. And research from Goldman Sachs finds AI is already squeezing hiring in specific white-collar fields, especially for entry-level workers, while the broader impact of AI on the labor market remains surprisingly narrow. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI’s labor impact depends on where

Welcome back. Apple may have found a way around one of AI wearables’ biggest drawbacks. A new report says Apple will put cameras in AirPods released next month, but they will be used to give AI visual context without recording the world around you. Meanwhile, ChatGPT for Teens adds new safeguards, but technology alone can’t solve AI’s impact on kids and education. Parents and students still have a lot to work out together. And OpenAI is making an extraordinary move by deliberately slowing development of its most powerful models after catching signs of "misalignment." The AI industry's standard-bearer choosing control

Welcome back. Smartphones have been locked into a lot of the same designs for years, but Honor’s Robot Phone hints at a stranger, more interesting future, with a camera arm that can follow you and make hands-free AI assistance more interactive. Meanwhile, AI coding startups are attracting multi-billion-dollar valuations as they chase one of enterprise AI’s clearest wins. The question is how many tools will companies keep paying for once the experimentation phase ends. And the economics of agents are getting tougher. Gartner says inference costs per agentic workflow could rise more than fivefold by 2028, turning AI’s efficiency gains

Welcome back. Enterprises want to deploy agents, but new reports show legacy systems, fragmented data and tech debt are making agents hard to scale. Meanwhile, Chinese AI labs are pressing into the enterprise with cheaper, more customizable models, forcing companies to weigh cost savings against trust and security. And as bubble talk returns, the bigger question may not be whether AI demand is real, but whether confidence can hold as expectations, spending and skepticism collide. Nat Rubio-Licht and I unpack the myth and the reality of the bubble in the latest episode of The Deep View Conversations podcast. — Jason

Hello, friends. Risk teams are being stretched by a fragmented landscape of vendors, regulations and AI systems, with critical information scattered across disconnected tools. OneTrust’s new maturity playbook offers a pragmatic way to assess where your enterprise stands today, understand what’s holding it back and better integrate your risk management. Thanks for tuning into this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with OneTrust . Let us know what you think! — Jason Hiner Where does your risk program actually sit? Every CISO we talk to describes some version of the same problem. Third-party risk lives in one tool. IT risk

Welcome back. In an interview with The Deep View, Google's Sameer Samat explains how Android’s future may shift as AI agents move us from opening apps and tapping through workflows to simply asking our devices to get things done. Ramp’s latest spending data suggests enterprises are losing patience with expensive frontier models and prioritizing efficiency instead. That makes Google’s new Gemini 3.7 Flash especially timely. It delivers stronger coding and agentic performance without raising prices, as Google looks for an economic edge in a crowded AI race. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Google wagers Gemini can win on

Welcome back. Google's new Pixel 11 series delivers plenty of AI features and keeps its crown as the top AI-centric smartphone, but its bigger mission is to become an agentic phone that will change the app-centric paradigm. Meanwhile, Mozilla now sees itself as a champion of a more open ecosystem in AI. And OpenAI is pushing deeper into the enterprise through IBM, giving it an army of consultants who can help companies modernize legacy systems, deploy AI securely and close the gap between powerful models and real-world business adoption. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OpenAI turns IBM into

Welcome back. Intelligence is starting to look more like an asset enterprises want to own and control, and Oumi is making it easier to take open models and use them to build, deploy, and improve your own custom models over time. Databricks is pushing a shift toward more distributed AI development, with a platform that lets developers and agents build more capable apps from phones, tablets, and other devices at the edge. Meanwhile, the AI slop problem is getting harder to ignore. Anthropic, Spotify, Suno, and Substack are all adding new transparency measures as AI-generated content gets tougher to spot.

Welcome back. Google’s Pixel camera is an AI story. For a decade, computational photography has been the canvas for models that can now reshape what's possible with a photo, shifting it more into the realm of art. Meanwhile, Meta is returning to open models with Muse Glimmer, a local agentic model that fits its new narrative for decentralized personal AI. Still, keep an eye on its actions more than its rhetoric. And Pathway may have delivered the most consequential development of the day: a tiny post-transformer model that approaches frontier-class reasoning at a fraction of the cost, offering an early

Welcome back. Pathway's founder tells The Deep View that it's focused on building a new post-LLM architecture to solve hallucinations and memory problems. Poetiq is pursuing a narrower path to recursive self-improvement (RSI) by keeping optimization outside the base model. Meanwhile, OpenAI is confronting the risks of its progress after an internal evaluation found that its Astra model may have deadly cyber capabilities. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OpenAI is cleaning up a risk it helped create 2. Poetiq’s plan to contain self-improving AI 3. Why LLMs are reaching their limits and what's next GOVERNANCE How OpenAI is

Hello, friends. AI is transforming every facet of the enterprise. But successful adoption may depend on creating a culture that enables open experimentation, rather than treating it as a requirement that might leave some employees behind. That’s the topic of this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with Rokt . Let us know what you think! — Nat Rubio-Licht Why AI adoption is a movement, not a mandate As the chief AI officer of Rokt, Claire Southey's job is ruled by a central guiding principle: Context is key. Rokt, an ecommerce tech company focused on the checkout experience, has taken

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.