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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams across the company.

OpenAI outlines a “reverse federalism” approach to AI governance, where state laws help build a national framework for safe, democratic AI.

Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.

Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.

See how data science teams can use ChatGPT Work to build root-cause briefs, impact readouts, KPI memos, scoped analyses, and dashboard specs from real work inputs.

See how sales teams can use ChatGPT Work to create pipeline briefs, meeting prep packets, forecast reviews, account plans, and stalled-deal diagnoses from real work inputs.

How Deutsche Telekom is becoming an AI-native telco with OpenAI-transforming customer service, employee workflows, network operations, and the future of voice.

Learn how to use ChatGPT, start your first conversation, and discover simple ways to write, brainstorm, and solve problems with AI.

Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work.

ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.

More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work.

Details about the OpenAI Bio Bounty program

Learn how OpenAI approaches government and national security partnerships, with principles for responsible AI use, democratic accountability, and public safety.

A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.

OpenAI Academy and the Walton Family Foundation are bringing hands-on AI Skills Jams to help K–12 educators build practical AI skills for the classroom.

A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.

See how Australian Payments Plus uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to move faster through payments complexity. AP+ saves time, improves quality, and keeps human judgment central.

MUFG uses ChatGPT Enterprise to build an AI-native organization, improve workflows, and deliver new AI-powered financial services at scale.

New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages.

OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.

A new OpenAI report maps how AI could reshape jobs across the EU, highlighting which occupations may face automation, growth, or workflow changes.

HP Inc. scales its OpenAI Frontier partnership to deploy AI across customer experiences, software development, and enterprise operations.

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model with stronger capabilities in coding, science, and cybersecurity, paired with its most advanced safety stack.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome back. AI’s duopoly is having long-term consequences by leaving most countries dependent on US and Chinese AI models and infrastructure. Meanwhile, creative resistance to AI may be softening as filmmakers and creators embrace tools that cut tedious work, lower costs, and expand what they can make, even as questions about originality and consent remain unresolved. And Kimi K3 is triggering claims that it has overtaken the leading models from Anthropic and OpenAI. While its leap forward is impressive, let's keep in mind that it's only in one benchmark for now, and the model could still largely be distilled from

Welcome back. Databricks has made itself a foundational part of enterprises for years with its interoperable, no-lock-in strategy. In an interview with The Deep View, Jonathan Frankle, the company's chief AI scientist, said that fundamental strategy, along with embracing risk in boundary-pushing research, has allowed the company to take a lead role in the ever-evolving AI landscape. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Databricks' AI edge starts with research 2. Why rejecting lock-in keeps Databricks sharp 3. How Databricks is betting on custom AI ENTERPRISE Databricks' AI edge starts with research Jonathan Frankle describes his job at Databricks as

Hello, friends. Risk doesn’t have to slow AI transformation. The best security leaders are turning risk management from a roadblock into a catalyst. OneTrust’s maturity curve offers a framework for understanding where your organization stands and how better risk foundations can help teams move faster, scale AI safely, and stay competitive. Thanks for tuning into this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with OneTrust . Let us know what you think! — Jason Hiner Find out where your organization sits on the risk maturity curve The problem with how enterprises treat risk Risk has long been viewed as something to

Welcome back. Mira Murati's Thinking Labs launched its first model, providing a US-grown open weight competitor to China’s dominant open source ecosystem. Meanwhile, Anthropic and 1Password may have cracked one of the biggest flaws with AI agents: Access credentials. And an EU ruling could dethrone Google’s search and AI dominance, paving the way for AI rivals to compete with Gemini, potentially leading to downstream global impacts. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. EU's AI crackdown on Google could be a user win 2. Anthropic and 1Password close agent password gap 3. New US open model takes on China's top

Welcome back. OpenAI’s first device may be a smart speaker, a safer bet than wearables and a less legally fraught path amid Apple’s lawsuit. In New York, a first-of-its-kind pause on hyperscale data centers shows how power costs, water use, noise control, and local opposition could become hard limits on AI’s growth. And China’s ban on romantic chatbot companions reflects more than AI safety concerns. It intersects with larger societal impact issues that AI will have to navigate as its influence expands. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. China bans chatbot love over more than AI safety 2. NY

Welcome back. Voice AI is advancing fast and making AI easier and faster to use, but a new benchmark shows there is no single winner, only models with different strengths for different jobs. Meanwhile, Anthropic's latest research reveals that Claude's values shift across models and languages, a reminder that AI outputs are shaped by more than facts alone. And Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis moved beyond broad calls for AI safety by proposing a concrete framework for testing and governing frontier models. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Demis Hassabis outlines ambitious AI safety plan 2. Why Claude’s moral

Welcome back. We examine why nearly 200 economists, tech leaders, and Nobel laureates are urging policymakers to prepare for AI's economic disruption before it arrives. We also look at the escalating price wars between OpenAI and Anthropic as they compete for power users by lowering the cost of cutting-edge models, a standoff that increasingly benefits customers. And after weeks of testing Apple's latest software, I explain why Siri AI is finally worth trying, provided you install the public beta with the right expectations and on the right device. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why Apple enthusiasts should try

Welcome back. IBM explains why enterprises will need sovereign AI before autonomous agents can safely operate at scale. Meta is dealing with a big backlash from users who didn't want their photos mixed with Meta's AI image models. And Apple's sweeping lawsuit against OpenAI threatens to reshape the race for AI hardware, challenging whether OpenAI can pursue its device ambitions without building on the foundations brought to the company from Apple employees. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Apple lawsuit threatens OpenAI’s hardware plans 2. User backlash kills Meta's AI use of your photos 3. Why sovereign AI is

Welcome back. New data reveals a widening gap between executives who think AI is transforming work and managers and employees stuck with manual workflows, unclear policies, and security concerns. Anthropic is trying to make AI usage more self-aware with Claude’s new reflection dashboard, but history suggests habits are hard to shift with awareness alone. And OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 launch was bigger than the model itself, with Codex merging into the main app and the launch of ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT Sites bringing the power of agents to nearly a billion OpenAI users. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. GPT-5.6 opens

Google's AI Overviews now shape how millions of users find information, making the act of search practically synonymous with turning to AI. The AI integration that Google has thrust upon users promises quicker, more conversational results, but what happens when you can’t trust the results being given? Usually, I use Google in the same way that billions of people do every day: type a question into the search engine and trust whatever the AI tells me, my boyfriend's pleas to "actually Google it" notwithstanding. So, when The New York Times published a report calling into question the accuracy of AI