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Claude Code v2.1.218
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.218

A Unified OS for Drug Development: Our Investment in Cheiron
Practice

A Unified OS for Drug Development: Our Investment in Cheiron

Drug development is one of the hardest problems in the world. It takes a decade, costs billions, and fails 90% of the time. Much of this is a natural consequenc…

How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions
Labs

How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions

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

Chokepoints: How to respond when the global economy gets squeezed
Practice

Chokepoints: How to respond when the global economy gets squeezed

As the situation in the Strait of Hormuz makes clear, business success increasingly depends on managing global disruption and risk in a three-dimensional way: r…

Here’s what Samsung’s smart glasses actually look like
Briefing

Here’s what Samsung’s smart glasses actually look like

Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and the first specs in the process, including…

AI Teammates: how monday.com runs production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock
Practice

AI Teammates: how monday.com runs production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock

AI Teammates are agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock, and few engineering organizations run them in production at the scale that monday.com does. Nine in ten Builders …

New Copilot usage metrics impact dashboard
Create

New Copilot usage metrics impact dashboard

We’ve released a new Copilot metrics impact dashboard for enterprise administrators and organization owners. This dashboard helps you tell a deeper Copilo…

Kick-off of new GenAI pilots for public administration & Apply AI stakeholder meeting
Policy

Kick-off of new GenAI pilots for public administration & Apply AI stakeholder meeting

Kick-off of new GenAI pilots for public administration & Apply AI stakeholder meeting Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 07/22/2026 - 16:18   14 September 2…

Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next
Research

Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next

A podcast with Florian Brand.…

Advancing the next era of national science
Labs

Advancing the next era of national science

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 disco…

Evolving model risk management in the age of AI
Practice

Evolving model risk management in the age of AI

Our recent survey reveals how banks are evolving model risk management: by strengthening resilience, unlocking more confident AI adoption—and turning it into a …

Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission
Labs

Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission

Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission…

3 Google updates from Galaxy Unpacked 2026
Labs

3 Google updates from Galaxy Unpacked 2026

We shared how Samsung users can boost productivity and get time back on new foldables, watches, and glasses coming soon.…

NVIDIA Open Sources First GPU-Accelerated Medical Physics Simulation Framework
Labs

NVIDIA Open Sources First GPU-Accelerated Medical Physics Simulation Framework

Before a healthcare robot can be useful in the real world, it has to learn how the physical world pushes back. Anatomy varies. Instruments bend, press, slip and…

Trump Administration Announces More Than $5 Billion for the Genesis Mission, a National Mission on AI for Science
Policy

Trump Administration Announces More Than $5 Billion for the Genesis Mission, a National Mission on AI for Science

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios unveiled more …

Introducing OpenAI Presence
Labs

Introducing OpenAI Presence

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

Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community
Labs

Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community

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

Powering supply chain with agentic AI
Practice

Powering supply chain with agentic AI

Agentic AI could fundamentally reshape supply chain operations, but realizing its potential will require companies to move beyond isolated use cases and orchest…

Becoming an AI-native telco: Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison reimagines the telecom of the future
Practice

Becoming an AI-native telco: Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison reimagines the telecom of the future

Indonesia’s second-largest telecom operator turned a complex merger into a platform for growth, reshaping how decisions are made, how employees work, and how AI…

The Microsoft Agent Framework Harness is now released
Agents

The Microsoft Agent Framework Harness is now released

Your agents can now be built on a stable, batteries-included harness – the loop, planning, memory, context management, approvals, and telemetry that turn …

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models
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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.…

OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery
Policy

OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsios published a n…

Built in Fort Worth: Wistron Opens Advanced Manufacturing Plant to Produce NVIDIA AI Systems
Labs

Built in Fort Worth: Wistron Opens Advanced Manufacturing Plant to Produce NVIDIA AI Systems

The AI era runs on AI infrastructure. Many of these advanced systems are built and tested in Texas. Wistron opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility today i…

Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Liberation of Guam
Policy

Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Liberation of Guam

Today, our Nation marks the 82nd anniversary of the American liberation of Guam—the day the United States shattered a brutal occupation and carried freedom back…

Claude Code v2.1.217
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.217

Democrat “Glitch” Registers Thousands of Noncitizens to Vote: Another Reason to Pass the SAVE America Act
Policy

Democrat “Glitch” Registers Thousands of Noncitizens to Vote: Another Reason to Pass the SAVE America Act

Democrat New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill admitted today that a “software glitch” registered approximately 6,600 noncitizens to vote in her state between 2023 and…

Nominations Sent to the Senate
Policy

Nominations Sent to the Senate

NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: D. Adam Candeub, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General. Nicholas Checker, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassa…

python-1.12.0
Agents

python-1.12.0

David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC
Labs

David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC

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 and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
Labs

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

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