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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.

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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……

From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact
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From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact

Ten years since AlphaGo, we explore how it is catalyzing scientific discovery and paving a path to AGI.…

New ways to learn math and science in ChatGPT
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New ways to learn math and science in ChatGPT

ChatGPT introduces interactive visual explanations for math and science, helping students explore formulas, variables, and concepts in real time.…

Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs
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Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs

IH-Challenge trains models to prioritize trusted instructions, improving instruction hierarchy, safety steerability, and resistance to prompt injection attacks.…

Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI
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Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI

Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at s…

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.…

Why Codex Security Doesn’t Include a SAST Report
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Why Codex Security Doesn’t Include a SAST Report

A deep dive into why Codex Security doesn’t rely on traditional SAST, instead using AI-driven constraint reasoning and validation to find real vulnerabilities w…

ChinAI #351: CAICT launches 2026 AI Safety Evaluations
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ChinAI #351: CAICT launches 2026 AI Safety Evaluations

Plus, what we can learn from its 2025 assessments…

Equipping workers with insights about compensation
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Equipping workers with insights about compensation

New research shows Americans send nearly 3 million daily messages to ChatGPT asking about compensation and earnings, helping close the wage information gap.…

OpenAI Japan announces Japan Teen Safety Blueprint to put teen safety first
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OpenAI Japan announces Japan Teen Safety Blueprint to put teen safety first

OpenAI Japan announces the Japan Teen Safety Blueprint, introducing stronger age protections, parental controls, and well-being safeguards for teens using gener…

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.…

Introducing Forge
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Introducing Forge

Today, we’re introducing Forge, a system for enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge.…

Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
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Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

We’re introducing a framework to measure progress toward AGI, and launching a Kaggle hackathon to build the relevant evaluations.…

OpenAI to acquire Astral
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OpenAI to acquire Astral

Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools…

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…

Creating with Sora Safely
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Creating with Sora Safely

To address the novel safety challenges posed by a state-of-the-art video model as well as a new social creation platform, we’ve built Sora 2 and the Sora app wi…

ChinAI #352: A 10,000-character treatise on China's Palantir?
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ChinAI #352: A 10,000-character treatise on China's Palantir?

An update to ChinAI issue #10, first published May 2018…

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.…

Update on the OpenAI Foundation
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Update on the OpenAI Foundation

The OpenAI Foundation announces plans to invest at least $1 billion in curing diseases, economic opportunity, AI resilience, and community programs.…

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…

Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens
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Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens

OpenAI releases prompt-based teen safety policies for developers using gpt-oss-safeguard, helping moderate age-specific risks in AI systems.…

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.…

Inside our approach to the Model Spec
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Inside our approach to the Model Spec

Learn how OpenAI’s Model Spec serves as a public framework for model behavior, balancing safety, user freedom, and accountability as AI systems advance.…

Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more
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Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more

Introducing Lyria 3 Pro, which unlocks longer tracks with structural awareness. We’re also bringing Lyria to more Google products and surfaces.…