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The agentic stack, tracked daily: MCP and A2A protocols, LangChain/LangGraph, Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK, agent frameworks, benchmarks and orchestration patterns.

The agentic stack, tracked daily: MCP and A2A protocols, LangChain/LangGraph, Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK, agent frameworks, benchmarks and orchestration patterns.

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Why we no longer evaluate SWE-bench Verified
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Why we no longer evaluate SWE-bench Verified

SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE…

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and OpenAI partner to accelerate federal permitting
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and OpenAI partner to accelerate federal permitting

OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory introduce DraftNEPABench, a new benchmark evaluating how AI coding agents can accelerate federal permitting—sho…

OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership
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OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership

OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models, and enterprise AI age…

Introducing the Stateful Runtime Environment for Agents in Amazon Bedrock
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Introducing the Stateful Runtime Environment for Agents in Amazon Bedrock

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

How Balyasny Asset Management built an AI research engine
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How Balyasny Asset Management built an AI research engine

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

Codex Security: now in research preview
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Codex Security: now in research preview

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

From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment
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From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment

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.…

Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection
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Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection

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

Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano
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Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano

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.…

How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment
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How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment

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

Speaking of Voxtral
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Speaking of Voxtral

Voxtral TTS: A frontier, open-weights text-to-speech model that’s fast, instantly adaptable, and produces lifelike speech for voice agents.…

Powering product discovery in ChatGPT
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Powering product discovery in ChatGPT

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

Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program
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Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program

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

Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager
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Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager

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.…

Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
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Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models

Gemma 4: Our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.…

The next phase of enterprise AI
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The next phase of enterprise AI

OpenAI outlines the next phase of enterprise AI, as adoption accelerates across industries with Frontier, ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, and company-wide AI agents.…

Enterprises power agentic workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAI
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Enterprises power agentic workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAI

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 secu…

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Powering real-world robotics tasks through enhanced embodied reasoning
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Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Powering real-world robotics tasks through enhanced embodied reasoning

Gemini Robotics ER 1.6: Enhancing spatial reasoning and multi-view understanding for autonomous robotics.…

The next evolution of the Agents SDK
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The next evolution of the Agents SDK

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

Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT
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Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT

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

Speeding up agentic workflows with WebSockets in the Responses API
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Speeding up agentic workflows with WebSockets in the Responses API

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

Workspace agents
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Workspace agents

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

Learning to Orchestrate Agents in Natural Language with the Conductor
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Learning to Orchestrate Agents in Natural Language with the Conductor

An open-source spec for orchestration: Symphony
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An open-source spec for orchestration: Symphony

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

Choco automates food distribution with AI agents
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Choco automates food distribution with AI agents

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

OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents come to AWS
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OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents come to AWS

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

OpenAI and PwC collaborate to reimagine the office of the CFO
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OpenAI and PwC collaborate to reimagine the office of the CFO

OpenAI and PwC are partnering to help enterprises use AI agents to automate finance workflows, improve forecasting, strengthen controls, and modernize the CFO f…

How frontier firms are pulling ahead
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How frontier firms are pulling ahead

OpenAI’s B2B Signals research shows how frontier enterprises deepen AI adoption, scale Codex-powered agentic workflows, and build durable competitive advantage.…

Parloa builds service agents customers want to talk to
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Parloa builds service agents customers want to talk to

Parloa leverages OpenAI models to power scalable, voice-driven AI customer service agents, enabling enterprises to design, simulate, and deploy reliable, real-t…

Running Codex safely at OpenAI
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Running Codex safely at OpenAI

How OpenAI runs Codex securely with sandboxing, approvals, network policies, and agent-native telemetry to support safe and compliant coding agent adoption.…