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Every move from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot and the global frontier labs: model launches, research drops, product news.

Every move from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot and the global frontier labs: model launches, research drops, product news.

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How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI
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How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI

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

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

How to use ChatGPT Work for everyday tasks
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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
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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
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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
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ChatGPT Sites

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

ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work
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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
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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.…

Your Prompts and Skills need a system of record.
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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…

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
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Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

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.…

Our approach to government and national security partnerships
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Our approach to government and national security partnerships

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

Introducing GPT-Live
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Introducing GPT-Live

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

Helping K–12 educators build practical AI skills
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Helping K–12 educators build practical AI skills

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.…

NVIDIA Nemotron Achieves Benchmark-Leading Performance With LangChain Deep Agents Harness
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NVIDIA Nemotron Achieves Benchmark-Leading Performance With LangChain Deep Agents Harness

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top closed models with the largest and most widely adopted AI agent orchestration pla…

Introducing Robostral Navigate
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Introducing Robostral Navigate

Introducing Robostral Navigate: 8B model achieving 76.6% on R2R-CE with just a single RGB camera. No depth sensors, LiDAR, or multiple cameras needed.…

Conversational Design: Five Patterns to Shape Customer-facing AI Experiences
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Conversational Design: Five Patterns to Shape Customer-facing AI Experiences

What held up in production when the goal wasn’t just functional accuracy but better dialogue…

Responses are the Easy Part: What We’ve Learned Building Real-time Voice Experiences at Scale
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Responses are the Easy Part: What We’ve Learned Building Real-time Voice Experiences at Scale

Timing, interruption, silence and recovery shape the experience as much as words…

Meta-Harness R&D: Enterprise-Grade Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon AI Workflows
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Meta-Harness R&D: Enterprise-Grade Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon AI Workflows

How autonomous code improvement can be made disciplined enough for enterprise use…

Designing Organisations That Can Keep Up With AI
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Designing Organisations That Can Keep Up With AI

Why organisational latency is becoming the biggest barrier to fully realising AI’s benefits…

Australian Payments Plus moves faster with ChatGPT and Codex
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Australian Payments Plus moves faster with ChatGPT and Codex

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

Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API:  background tasks, remote MCP and more
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Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more

We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.…

AI Innovators Adopt NVIDIA Vera — Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters
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AI Innovators Adopt NVIDIA Vera — Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters

Max single-threaded CPUs at scale are a new category of CPUs built for the agentic AI era. Across the creation and deployment of an agentic system, the CPU is o…

NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot for the Open Robotics Community
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NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot for the Open Robotics Community

Open source AI has shown how quickly developers can innovate when models, data and tools are shared. Robotics has the same opportunity, but advancements in phys…

How Open Models Are Driving AI Research
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How Open Models Are Driving AI Research

Every year, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) reveals where thousands of AI researchers have decided to put their work. This year’s accept…

How Nations Are Deploying AI for Strategic Priorities
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How Nations Are Deploying AI for Strategic Priorities

Nations have long invested in domestic infrastructure to advance their economies, protect and use their data, and take advantage of technology opportunities in …

ChinAI #365: Around the Horn (26th episode)
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ChinAI #365: Around the Horn (26th episode)

Greetings from a world where……

Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers
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Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers

Learning Multi-Agent Coordination via Sheaf-ADMM
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Learning Multi-Agent Coordination via Sheaf-ADMM

Sakana Translate:Sakana Chatが翻訳に対応、翻訳・添削・質問の3機能を搭載
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Sakana Translate:Sakana Chatが翻訳に対応、翻訳・添削・質問の3機能を搭載

Sakana AI 伊藤錬、国連「AI for Good」グローバル委員会創設委員に就任
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Sakana AI 伊藤錬、国連「AI for Good」グローバル委員会創設委員に就任