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GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

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.…

OpenAI pairs its GPT-5.6 public rollout with ChatGPT Work, a new agent that handles entire workflows

OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Work, an agent-based product powered by Codex and the now publicly available GPT-5.6. The agent can independently handle complex pro…

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now available in GitHub Copilot

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. GPT-5.6 comes in three variants, Sol, Terra, and Luna, so you can match the model to the job…

Serving sub-second Ideogram v4 without quality loss

At @fal we serve Ideogram V4 at high speed. At 1K resolution, a generation that used to take 2.75 s now renders in 0.44 s, a 6x speedup with no visible quality …

How to use ChatGPT Work for everyday tasks

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

Modeling an AI jobs transition

A new framework analyzes 921 occupations and 148 million U.S. jobs to identify which roles face automation risk, reorganization, growth, or minimal AI disruptio…

AI is becoming a first hire for small businesses

New research shows how 4 million Americans use ChatGPT to start, run, and grow small businesses, lowering the cost of entrepreneurship with AI.…

ChatGPT Sites

Create that kind of lightweight website or app with Codex.…

GPT-5.6 is now available in Figma Make

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API pricing squeezes OpenAI and Anthropic as the AI price war heats up

Meta is entering the AI API business with Muse Spark 1.1 at prices that undercut even the dirt-cheap Grok 4.5, released just yesterday. At $4.25 per million out…

Enhancing enterprise inference on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with data capture, Hugging Face, NVMe, and Route 53 integration

In this post, we walk through five capabilities now available in SageMaker HyperPod inference: multi-tier data capture for auditing and model improvement, direc…

MCP tool design: Practical approaches and tradeoffs

In this post, we show where MCP tool design goes wrong and how to fix it with practical context engineering approaches.…

Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications

Aurora 1.5 adds 22 more variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting to the Aurora foundation model, making it more useful for …

ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious 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.…

GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition

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

Solve harder problems with AlphaEvolve, now available to everyone on Google Cloud

Many of the most challenging and valuable problems in the world are related to optimization. Now, AI is now making these problems tractable. If you've ever trie…

White House CEQ Announces Technology Solutions Selected to Showcase at Permitting Innovators Expo

Industry partners to showcase permitting technologies at the Permitting Innovators Expo. Today, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced the innovat…

How to keep design teams steady through constant change

Ask Copilot for a repository overview

You can now ask GitHub Copilot for a high-level overview of any repository you’re exploring for the first time. When you visit the home page of a reposito…

Your Prompts and Skills need a system of record.

Studio provides a system of record for AI prompts and skills—versioned, owned, and traceable. Iterate fast, ship with control, and ensure consistent AI behavior…

OpenAI finds roughly 30 percent of popular AI coding test is broken

OpenAI reviewed SWE-Bench Pro, a widely used test for measuring AI models' programming skills, and found roughly 30 percent of its tasks are broken. The company…

Agent Harness: Scaling the claw or harness capabilities

Part 3 of Build your own claw and harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. In Part 2 our personal finance assistant learned to work with your data safely: it rea…

Grok x Cursor

More Fable, GPT-5.6 and new ChatGPT voice…

Databricks makes Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 its default coding engine after it matched Opus at lower cost

Databricks benchmarked coding agents on its own multi-million-line codebase and found that the Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 matched Anthropic's Opus 4.8 at…

OpenAI's AI beats every human at AtCoder, a top competitive programming contest

At the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026, an OpenAI system crushed all human competitors in an exhibition match, solving all five problems in the Algorithm Divisio…

Agents, robots, and us: How AI reshapes work and skills in Latin America

Most skills will still be needed—but how people use them will change as they work alongside intelligent machines.…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures Historic Defense Investment from NATO Allies, Powering American Industry

STRENGTHENING THE U.S. DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE: This week, at NATO’s 2026 Ankara Summit, President Donald J. Trump announced a surge in defense investment from …

Introducing Claude apps gateway for AWS

Today, we're announcing the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that gives organizations a single point of control over access, cost, and p…

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, June 2026 releases

This changelog covers VS Code v1.123 through v1.127, shipped throughout June and early July 2026. The latest VS Code releases build on the Copilot experience de…

Deploy managed Copilot settings via MDM in VS Code and CLI

Enterprise administrators can now deliver managed GitHub Copilot settings directly to devices through native mobile device management (MDM) and file-based confi…