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Introducing Advanced Account Security: phishing-resistant login, stronger recovery, and enhanced protections to safeguard sensitive data and prevent account takeover.

How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.

OpenAI scales Stargate to build the compute infrastructure powering AGI, adding new data center capacity to meet growing AI demand.

OpenAI outlines a five-part action plan for strengthening cybersecurity in the Intelligence Age, focused on democratizing AI-powered cyber defense and protecting critical systems.

OpenAI GPT models, Codex, and Managed Agents are now available on AWS, enabling enterprises to build secure AI in their AWS environments.

Learn how OpenAI protects community safety in ChatGPT through model safeguards, misuse detection, policy enforcement, and collaboration with safety experts.

OpenAI is available at FedRAMP Moderate authorization for ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API, enabling secure AI adoption for U.S. federal agencies.

OpenAI and Microsoft announce an amended agreement that simplifies the partnership, adds long-term clarity, and supports continued AI innovation at scale.

Learn how Symphony, an open-source spec for Codex orchestration, turns issue trackers into always-on agent systems—boosting engineering output and reducing context switching.

How Choco used OpenAI APIs to streamline food distribution, boost productivity, and unlock growth—an in-depth customer story on real-world AI impact.

Our mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. Sam Altman shares five principles that guide our work.

Introducing GPT-5.5, our smartest model yet—faster, more capable, and built for complex tasks like coding, research, and data analysis across tools.

Learn how to get started with Codex by setting up projects, creating threads, and completing your first tasks with step-by-step guidance.

Learn how Codex helps you go beyond chat by automating tasks, connecting tools, and producing real outputs like docs and dashboards.

Learn how to automate tasks in Codex using schedules and triggers to create reports, summaries, and recurring workflows without manual effort.

Explore 10 practical Codex use cases to automate tasks, create deliverables, and turn real inputs into outputs across tools, files, and workflows.

Learn how to use Codex plugins and skills to connect tools, access data, and follow repeatable workflows to automate tasks and improve results.

Learn how to set up your Codex workspace, create threads and projects, manage files, and start completing tasks with step-by-step guidance.

Learn how to configure Codex settings, including personalization, detail level, and permissions, to run tasks smoothly and customize your workflow.

Explore the GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty: a red-teaming challenge to find universal jailbreaks for bio safety risks, with rewards up to $25,000.

OpenAI makes ChatGPT for Clinicians free for verified U.S. physicians, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists, supporting clinical care, documentation, and research.

Learn how to build, use, and scale workspace agents in ChatGPT to automate repeatable workflows, connect tools, and streamline team operations.

A deep dive into the Codex agent loop, showing how WebSockets and connection-scoped caching reduced API overhead and improved model latency.

Workspace agents in ChatGPT are Codex-powered agents that automate complex workflows, run in the cloud, and help teams scale work across tools securely.

OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text with state-of-the-art accuracy

ChatGPT Images 2.0 introduces a state-of-the-art image generation model with improved text rendering, multilingual support, and advanced visual reasoning.

OpenAI launches Codex Labs, partners with with Accenture, PwC, Infosys, and others to help enterprises deploy and scale Codex across the software development lifecycle, and hits 4M Codex WAU.

Hyatt deploys ChatGPT Enterprise across its global workforce, using GPT-5.4 and Codex to improve productivity, operations, and guest experiences.

The updated Codex app for macOS and Windows adds computer use, in-app browsing, image generation, memory, and plugins to accelerate developer workflows.

OpenAI introduces GPT-Rosalind, a frontier reasoning model built to accelerate drug discovery, genomics analysis, protein reasoning, and scientific research workflows.

Leading security firms and enterprises join OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber, using GPT-5.4-Cyber and $10M in API grants to strengthen global cyber defense.

OpenAI updates the Agents SDK with native sandbox execution and a model-native harness, helping developers build secure, long-running agents across files and tools.

OpenAI expands its Trusted Access for Cyber program, introducing GPT-5.4-Cyber to vetted defenders and strengthening safeguards as AI cybersecurity capabilities advance.

Cloudflare brings OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and Codex to Agent Cloud, enabling enterprises to build, deploy, and scale AI agents for real-world tasks with speed and security.

Learn how to use ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas, organize thinking, and turn rough concepts into structured, actionable plans.

Learn how to use projects in ChatGPT to organize chats, files, and instructions, manage ongoing work, and collaborate more effectively.

Learn how to create and refine images with ChatGPT using clear prompts, iterate on designs, and generate high-quality visuals in minutes.

Learn how managers use ChatGPT to prepare for conversations, write clear feedback, stay organized, and improve team effectiveness.

Learn how customer success teams use ChatGPT to manage accounts, improve communication, reduce churn, and drive adoption and renewals.

Learn how to use ChatGPT for writing to draft, revise, and refine content with clear structure, tone, and intent.

Learn how to research with ChatGPT using search and deep research to find up-to-date information, analyze sources, and generate structured insights.

Learn how finance teams use ChatGPT to streamline reporting, analyze data, improve forecasts, and communicate insights more clearly.

Learn how to upload and work with files in ChatGPT to analyze data, summarize documents, and generate content from PDFs, spreadsheets, and more.

Explore how clinicians use ChatGPT to support diagnosis, documentation, and patient care with secure, HIPAA-compliant AI tools.

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this regular round-up, we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories.  For our latest edition, we explore Uber’s revamped network with modern edge; smarter, AI-infused site search at Target; a wicked fast blockchain built by Keeta Network; HCA Healthcare empowers its nurses with a new AI-powered information portal; Deutche Telecom enhances its data science workloads; Google’s AI infrastructure

A year ago today, Google Cloud filed a formal complaint with the European Commission about Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices — specifically those that impose financial penalties on businesses that use Windows Server software on Azure’s biggest competitors.  Despite regulatory scrutiny, it’s clear that Microsoft intends to keep its restrictive licensing policies in place for most cloud customers. In fact, it’s getting worse.  As part of a recent earnings call, Microsoft disclosed that its efforts to force software customers to use Azure are “not anywhere close to the finish line,” and represented one of three pillars “driving [its] growth.” As we approach

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this regular round-up, we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories. For our latest edition, we explore Box’s AI agents extracting insights with cross-platform agent integration; Schroders uses multiple connected agents to build a complex investment research system; Hypros’ IoT device can monitor patient distress in hospitals without individual monitoring; a Formula E exhibition of whether regenerative braking

There’s a buzz of excitement here at Tobacco Dock as we welcome our customers and partners to the Google Cloud Summit London. Together, we’re exploring the essential role Google Cloud is playing in driving AI innovation and adoption across the UK. Today is about shining a spotlight on our customers and partners, focusing on the real-world stories of how they are accelerating innovation, realising value, and reshaping entire industries with the powerful combination of AI agents and robust cloud infrastructure. The opportunity ahead is immense. AI is poised to inject more than £400 billion into the UK economy by 2030, and

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this monthly round-up, we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories.  For our inaugural edition, we explore Lowe’s new Visual Scout product recommendation engine powered by Vertex AI Vector Search; a responsive “Driver Agent” platform created by Formula E to bring more equity to the track; Ester AI, a conversational tool from wealth.com that can help financial planners

WEEK OF DEC 16 - DEC 20 * Windows Server 2025 is now available on Google Compute Engine. We are excited to announce the general availability of Windows Server 2025 on Google Compute Engine. You can now run Windows Server 2025 Data Center, and Windows Server 2025 Data Center Core editions as well as Windows SQL Server 2022 on Windows Server 2025 with pay-as-you-go licenses. Customers that don’t already have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement can use the Google Compute Engine’s provided image to take advantage of Google Cloud’s relationships with Microsoft for pay-as-you-go licenses that scale with your workload and

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that 2024 was a busy year for Google Cloud. From AI to Zero Trust, and everything in between, here’s a chronological recap of our top blogs of 2024, according to readership. You’ll probably see some favorites on this list, and discover a few that you missed the first time around.  JANUARY We started the new year strong, removing data transfer fees for anyone moving data off of our platform. Translation: Anyone doing cool things on Google Cloud (like using generative AI to analyze their microservices deployment) is doing it because they want

Over the past year, the pace of innovation across industries and around the world has been extraordinary. At Google, we're inspired by the public sector’s ingenuity and speed in adopting our AI and security innovations to achieve remarkable outcomes together. Since Google Cloud Next, we've launched more powerful versions of Gemini, rolled out Gemini Flash and Imagen 3. And we're proud to showcase inspiring examples from the public sector, highlighting how organizations are leveraging generative AI to drive transformative change. From state agencies streamlining citizen services to healthcare providers improving patient outcomes and defense organizations enhancing mission readiness, public sector organizations

Editors note, November 28th, 2025: “We filed our antitrust complaint with the European Commission (EC) to give voice to our customers and partners about the issue of anticompetitive cloud licensing practices. Today, we are withdrawing it in light of the recent announcement that the EC will assess problematic practices affecting the cloud sector under a separate process. We stand behind the arguments outlined in the blog below, and we continue to work with policymakers, customers, and regulators across the EU, the UK, and elsewhere to advocate for choice and openness in the cloud market." - Giorgia Abeltino, Head of Government

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more.  ---------------------------------------- Tip: Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources. ---------------------------------------- WEEK OF DEC 10 - DEC 15 * Announcing Launch of Cross Cloud Materialized Views: To help customers on their cross-cloud analytics journey, today we are thrilled to announce the public preview of BigQuery Omni cross-cloud materialized views (aka cross-cloud MVs). Cross-cloud MVs allow customers to very

To our customers: At Google Cloud, we put your interests first. This means that when you choose to work with us, we become partners on a journey of shared innovation, shared support, and shared fate. We are committed to helping you evolve as technology advances, drawing on our depth of experience to ensure you can use the latest and best technology, while keeping you safe and protected. When it comes to the rapidly developing world of generative AI, this is imperative. Earlier this year, we embedded Duet AI — an always-on AI collaborator — across our products, from Google Workspace to Google

Editor’s note: Jack Ngare is a Technical Director in Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO based in Nairobi, Kenya. A native of Kenya, he worked in telecommunications abroad for 12 years before returning home to work for a large African financial institution and a U.S. technology company. He joined Google Cloud last year with a mission to digitize and modernize Cloud’s global top customers, while simultaneously growing Africa's entrepreneurial technology culture.  ---------------------------------------- What is the opportunity you see before you? Working at Google Cloud, I’m able to bring people some of the world's best software and hardware engineering. I also see the possibility

Editor’s note: Alicia Abella is the Managing Director for Telecommunications Industry Solutions at Google Cloud. The work involves bringing complex, advanced technology to businesses across diverse markets and cultures — from startups in Brazil to North America's largest telecommunications companies. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba, she has a PhD, 29 patents, and extensive experience running teams and working with customers. ---------------------------------------- Did you always see yourself bringing new inventions into the world?  No, not at all. I grew up in Queens, New York — the only child of Cuban immigrants. My parents worked hard and saved money so I could get an

We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms, authored by Bern Elliot and Gabriele Rigon. We believe this recognition is a testament to Google Cloud’s robust investments and commitment to innovation in AI, coupled with a deep understanding of enterprise customer needs. Enterprises are increasingly investing in AI-driven solutions that balance addressing customer expectations with operational efficiency. At a time when the demand for quality, performant, and trustworthy conversational AI has never been higher, we’re thrilled to continue to deliver best-in-class technologies, purpose-built to solve our

Editor’s Note: José Neto works in Google Cloud's São Paulo office, assisting customers in both hybrid/on-prem cloud computing systems, and modernizing computer applications for the cloud. It's appropriate work; a native of Salvador, Brazil, he's spent decades harmonizing the past and the future, dealing with radical change, and staying comfortable amid uncertainty as he moves forward.  ---------------------------------------- What do you think defines how you work? It's the way I look at experience. When I work with a customer, I'm interested in helping them fix a problem or build a new service—it's very personal for me. I love working towards results. I always ask what

Welcome back. Well, it finally happened. AI agents have been the defining trend of 2026, and today they have finally taken over all three of the main stories in our newsletter. Plus, all three came from companies not named OpenAI or Anthropic. Nvidia is giving agents the eyes and ears they need for more real work, while Perplexity is turning its desktop agent into a stronger enterprise play. But Amazon may have the biggest move, with Amazon Quick bringing agents into a platform that professionals, startups, and enterprises already trust. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AMAZON QUICK IS THE AI AGENT

Welcome back. Announced today, MBZUAI’s PAN Arcadia is a new kind of world model built for real-time interaction. It signals a shift from passive simulation to active, real-time environments, and hints at how world models and LLMs could evolve together into a new AI stack. —Jason Hiner  IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. MBZUAI'S PAN ARCADIA REDEFINES THE WORLD MODEL 2. A WORLD MODEL THAT CAN REACT AND NOT JUST SIMULATE 3. A FUTURE WHERE WORLD MODELS MEET LLMS PRODUCTS PAN ARCADIA RECASTS WHAT WORLD MODELS CAN DO World models have become one of the most closely watched trends in AI this year. But most of the attention has

Welcome back. OpenAI is broadening its path to include providers beyond Microsoft, a move that gives it greater cloud flexibility, broader enterprise reach, and a stronger IPO narrative. Mistral is tackling a different bottleneck: turning AI pilots into production workflows that enterprises can trust. And Sam Altman is moving AI decentralization into the industry spotlight. That’s the right conversation, but the real test is whether OpenAI and the other frontier labs change how they operate before market incentives push them toward more centralization, not less. We should hold them to it. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. ALTMAN ELEVATES AI'S CENTRALIZATION PARADOX 2.

Hello friends. AI is rewriting how audiences are reached, and marketing teams are feeling it. In this conversation, we explore how agents are automating workflows, why creativity still matters, and what a zero-click search world means for SEO. The takeaway: adapt quickly, because the playbook is being rebuilt in real time. Welcome to a special edition of The Deep View, presented in partnership with Airia. Let us know what you think! —Jason Hiner WHY AI SEARCH BROKE THE MARKETING PLAYBOOK Analysts, marketers, and business owners face the same question: How do you reach audiences in an era when AI is reshaping how

Welcome back. Today, we’re looking at an enterprise reality check behind the AI boom. Researcher Dan Klein argues that enterprises do not need superintelligence as much as super-reliability, because the most dangerous hallucinations are the ones that go under the radar. Anthropic added memory to Claude Managed Agents, closing a key gap for companies that want safer agents that need less babysitting. And DeepSeek V4 shows the cost war is far from over, pairing frontier-level benchmarks with a less expensive open model. Bigger AI still matters. But cheaper, safer, more reliable AI still matters to businesses. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.

Welcome back. Google showed what practical agentic AI looks like by rebuilding Workspace around context, making everyday tools smarter without getting too flashy. Meanwhile, Meta’s move to Amazon's Graviton chips shows the AI race is no longer just about GPUs but about the full stack needed to run agents at scale. And OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 looks like the clearest signal yet of where ChatGPT is headed, toward an agentic superapp that can plan, use tools, and handle longer, messier workflows.  —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OPENAI'S GPT-5.5 SETS UP AGENTIC SUPERAPP 2. HOW GOOGLE REBUILT WORKSPACE FOR AGENTS 3. META’S AMAZON DEAL WIDENS THE

Welcome back. Apple and Google’s AI alliance is moving from theory to reality, showing how high the stakes have become as the two rivals join forces to bring AI mainstream. At the same time, one of the least visible but most important AI battles is happening in the data layer, where Vast Data’s $1 billion raise signals that infrastructure, storage, and memory constraints could shape how far agents can scale. And OpenAI’s new Workspace agents make clear that team agents are the next frontier, but companies should move carefully, because shared context, autonomy, and business-critical data introduce a new class

Welcome back. OpenAI’s Image 2.0 signals a shift from novelty to utility with thinking tools and real-world applications for generative AI images. At Google Cloud Next, the company is trying to bring order to the enterprise agent mess with a broader Gemini Enterprise platform built to manage data and governance at scale. And coding agents are now officially the center of gravity in the AI ecosystem, as the $60 billion Cursor-SpaceX deal shows how far challengers will go to stay in the race. It is a bold but risky bet to catch leaders Claude Code and Codex. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S

Welcome back. Adobe’s annual Sneaks offer a revealing glimpse of how AI is accelerating inside the company, and we got a special glimpse at what could be one of the company's next big AI features. Apple named John Ternus as its next CEO, signaling a clearer bet on hardware, devices, and tightly integrated experiences as its path for the AI era. And at Adobe Summit, the company argued that enterprise agents need more than raw model power; they need context, interoperability, and guardrails, which is the gap Adobe CX Enterprise wants to hit. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. APPLE CHOOSES ITS

Hello, friends. Sam Altman's World ID just brought its iris-scanning verification to dating apps, enterprise tools like Zoom and DocuSign, and even agentic workflows. Anthropic launched Claude Design, expanding beyond its developer roots to give teams a native tool for creating visual assets and iterating on designs through prompts. And the agent mania gripping the industry is producing a real problem: AI workslop. As OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger put it, agents without strong human direction still produce slop. The bottleneck isn't technology. It's humans doing the thinking. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. WHY AI AGENT SLOP IS OVERWHELMING WORKERS 2. CLAUDE DESIGN

Hello friends. Enterprise AI is racing ahead, but control is the real bottleneck. In this conversation, we examine why agents are harder to deploy than expected, the limits of OpenClaw hype (at least in the traditional enterprise), and how security, governance, and orchestration determine success as the momentum of agentic AI surges worldwide. Catch the latest episode of The Deep View Conversations, presented in partnership with Deel. —Jason Hiner WHAT THE AGENT SURGE IS REALLY DOING TO ENTERPRISES In this episode of The Deep View: Conversations, we sit down with Dave Horton, VP of Solutions Engineering at Airia, to explore one of

Hello, friends. Welcome to a special weekend edition of The Deep View. Chrome’s new Skills feature signals a shift toward a more agentic web, embedding AI actions directly into the browser without forcing users into new tools. In the enterprise, Capital One is forging a unique path, betting on deeply customized open models to meet strict regulatory demands while keeping pace with AI innovation. Lastly, Gemini uses personal context to make image generation feel much more tailored to you, your preferences, and your people. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. HOW OPEN MODELS SOLVED CAPITAL ONE'S AI PROBLEMS 2. CHROME’S NEW AI ‘SKILLS’

Hello, friends. Agents are rewriting how infrastructure gets used. Traditional databases assume persistence and human setup, but agents spin up and discard environments constantly. Ghost rethinks Postgres for this model, MCP-native and instantly provisioned. Thanks for tuning into this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with Tiger Data. Let us know what you think! —Jason Hiner YOUR AGENT NEEDS UNLIMITED POSTGRES. Agents spin up projects, fork environments, test ideas, and tear them down. Over and over. Every database on the market was designed for humans who provision databases meant to last. Agents don't work that way. Enter Ghost. The postgres your ai agent

Hello, friends. OpenAI’s new GPT-Rosalind model for life sciences shows how frontier AI is shifting away from general models to more specialized, tightly controlled models built for specific domains. Anthropic, facing pressure as Mythos waits in the wings, is keeping users engaged by releasing Opus 4.7, a meaningful upgrade that improves coding, multimodal reasoning, and enterprise reliability, even if it's more of a bridge rather than a breakthrough. Meanwhile, OpenAI is also pushing Codex closer to a true agentic developer tool, expanding it to handle full computer control and long-running workflows. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. WITH OPUS 4.7, ANTHROPIC BUYS TIME

The robots are doing backflips.  The robots are forming their hands into fists. They’re grasping pencils and writing. They’re packing boxes and moving things from one place to another. They’re folding laundry, doing dishes, and organizing rooms. They’re doing kung fu and dancing about as awkwardly as a teenage boy at a middle school dance.  While we’re nowhere near these machines looking like Sophie Thatcher in Companion, more and more, they are taking our shape, moving the way we do and performing our actions. And with AI further nurturing expectations, humanoids have become one of the most sought-after form factors among roboticists