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The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.

The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.

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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…
ChinAI #348: China's Compute Year in Review - frenzy, growing pains, and key milestones
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ChinAI #348: China's Compute Year in Review - frenzy, growing pains, and key milestones

Greetings from a world where……
Arvind KC appointed Chief People Officer
Labs

Arvind KC appointed Chief People Officer

OpenAI appoints Arvind KC as Chief People Officer to help scale the company, strengthen its culture, and lead how work evolves in the age of AI.…
Disrupting malicious uses of AI | February 2026
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Disrupting malicious uses of AI | February 2026

Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense.…
OpenAI Codex and Figma launch seamless code-to-design experience
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OpenAI Codex and Figma launch seamless code-to-design experience

OpenAI and Figma launch a new Codex integration that connects code and design, enabling teams to move between implementation and the Figma canvas to iterate and…
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…
Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed
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Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.…
An update on our mental health-related work
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An update on our mental health-related work

OpenAI shares updates on its mental health safety work, including parental controls, trusted contacts, improved distress detection, and recent litigation develo…
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…
Joint Statement from OpenAI and Microsoft
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Joint Statement from OpenAI and Microsoft

Microsoft and OpenAI continue to work closely across research, engineering, and product development, building on years of deep collaboration and shared success.…
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.…
Scaling AI for everyone
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Scaling AI for everyone

Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.…
Our agreement with the Department of War
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Our agreement with the Department of War

Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety red lines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified enviro…
ChinAI #349: Tokens Made in China?
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ChinAI #349: Tokens Made in China?

Greetings from a world where……
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale
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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.…
How Axios uses AI to help deliver high-impact local journalism
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How Axios uses AI to help deliver high-impact local journalism

Axios COO Allison Murphy explains how the company uses AI to support local reporters, streamline newsroom workflows, and deliver high-impact local journalism at…
Understanding AI and learning outcomes
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Understanding AI and learning outcomes

OpenAI introduces the Learning Outcomes Measurement Suite to assess AI’s impact on student learning across diverse educational environments over time.…
Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons
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Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons

A new preprint extends single-minus amplitudes to gravitons, with GPT-5.2 Pro helping derive and verify nonzero graviton tree amplitudes in quantum gravity.…
The five AI value models driving business reinvention
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The five AI value models driving business reinvention

Five AI value models show how leaders can sequence AI from workforce fluency to process reinvention and build durable business advantage.…
Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations
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Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Excel and new financial app integrations, powered by GPT-5.4 to accelerate modeling, research, and analysis in regulated environme…
Introducing the Adoption news channel
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Introducing the Adoption news channel

Practical insights and frameworks to turn AI progress into business advantage…
VfL Wolfsburg turns ChatGPT into a club-wide capability
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VfL Wolfsburg turns ChatGPT into a club-wide capability

By focusing on people, not pilots, the Bundesliga club is scaling efficiency, creativity, and knowledge—without losing its football identity.…
Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity
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Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity

OpenAI shares new tools, certifications, and measurement resources to help schools and universities close AI capability gaps and expand opportunity.…
Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good
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Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good

OpenAI introduces CoT-Control and finds reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, reinforcing monitorability as an AI safety safeguard.…
Introducing GPT-5.4
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Introducing GPT-5.4

Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer use, tool search, and…
How Descript engineers multilingual video dubbing at scale
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How Descript engineers multilingual video dubbing at scale

Using OpenAI reasoning models, Descript unlocked automatic localization of large content libraries without losing timing or meaning.…
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…
OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo
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OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo

OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during development.…
ChinAI #350: Around the Horn (24th episode)
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ChinAI #350: Around the Horn (24th episode)

Greetings from a world where……