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Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news UK government borrowing costs are dropping this morning, a welcome sign ahead of Wednesday’s budget.

The Guardian · UK

Jayden, Sam, and Zack are eagerly pitching editors on reported stories and investigative features. The catch? They're all AI agents.

Wired

Beijing is making an ambitious bid to turn China’s vast ocean of data into fuel for artificial intelligence and economic growth with the launch of a centralised national data group, though experts warn its success will…

South China Morning Post · China

Coyotec is bilingual, swears, and tells listeners how to defend themselves against ICE. Its popularity comes as more broadcasters are experimenting with artificial personalities.

Wired

Chinese AI video-generation models have surpassed leading US rivals in visual quality, but several fall behind in safety precautions, according to researchers at the University of Hong Kong.

South China Morning Post · China

Blake Mackenzie, a 12-year-old from Newcastle, has won the top youth prize at the Australian Poetry Slam for his reflections on artificial intelligence.

The Guardian · UK

Long before artificial intelligence became the next big thing in the tech industry, Wang Jian was crafting the foundational infrastructure that would eventually power it.

South China Morning Post · China

Are China’s increasingly powerful open-weight AI models a cybersecurity threat, or could restricting them ultimately make the internet less secure? The dilemma has become a growing concern as Chinese developers…

South China Morning Post · China

While few dispute that China is narrowing the gap with the United States in developing artificial intelligence (AI) models, there is one area where Chinese firms are already the undisputed leaders: video.

South China Morning Post · China

Data centres are the lifeblood of our digital world, but there are growing concerns about their environmental impact. The BBC explores their rise in charts.

BBC News · UK

Long before artificial intelligence became the next big thing in the tech industry, Wang Jian was crafting the foundational infrastructure that would eventually power it.

South China Morning Post · China

The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.

TechCrunch

Authentic Brands Group says AI company infringed on rights of songs by the King such as Can’t Help Falling in Love The owners of Elvis Presley ’s music catalogue are suing artificial intelligence ( AI ) company…

The Guardian · UK

"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."

TechCrunch

We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.

TechCrunch

State paid consultancy firm $166,000 for feasibility study on merging the three tertiary institutions Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Western Australian government has said it is…

The Guardian · UK

Actor’s storylines in the famous soap will be recut into vertical micro-episodes to be watched on phones – but her fellow cast members say they haven’t been consulted The long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours is…

The Guardian · UK

The mods at r/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI.

The Verge

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more about AI's impact on the web, follow Emma Roth.

The Verge

Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.

Wired

Chinese technology giants are dangling annual pay packages approaching 1 million yuan (US$149,739) to attract artificial intelligence engineers who can turn AI models into commercial applications.

South China Morning Post · China

BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots.

The Verge

Athletes’ scramble to control – and monetise – their digital identities at the cutting edge of AI rights deals Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast The Socceroos star stares at the camera as he…

The Guardian · UK

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

TechCrunch

On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads.

The Verge

Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max

TechCrunch

A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

TechCrunch

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

TechCrunch

Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

Wired

The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back Dale Johnston opens the gate to his neat suburban garden on the western…

The Guardian · UK

The Guardian · UK

BBC series deliberately uses ‘more organic’ shots to assure viewers animals are not AI-generated, producers say The David Attenborough -narrated series Blue Planet III deliberately includes cloudier, less polished…

The Guardian · UK

Video shows AI likenesses of people linked to Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist party appearing to admit to wrongdoing A political ad from Spain’s main opposition party that used a deepfake video of the prime minister’s wife…

The Guardian · UK

Chancellor says government to commit hundreds of millions to develop ‘distinctively British’ approach to AI John Healey has pledged to use Wednesday’s budget to harness the power of artificial intelligence to bolster…

The Guardian · UK

China’s access to artificial intelligence computing power will double next year, but US-designed chips will account for about 65 per cent of that capacity, an indication of its continued reliance on foreign hardware,…

South China Morning Post · China

The chancellor will unveil AI spending aimed at shoring up the UK's defences in Wednesday's Budget.

BBC News · UK

OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.

TechCrunch

The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.

TechCrunch

OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents.

The Verge

Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.

Ars Technica

Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a…

The Verge

After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of ‘vulnerability tsunami’ Leaders in cybersecurity are sounding the alarm after the discovery of a major vulnerability this week.

The Guardian · UK

Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production.

Ars Technica

Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.

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Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using personalized AI features.

The Verge

Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company.

The Verge

Everything has become so frictionless and optimised that concerted efforts must be made to turn back towards beauty and individuality – even if it has no explicit market value By the time it’s 5pm on a Friday, the…

The Guardian · UK

Anthropic claims AI will shift how work gets done and labor demand – but some experts are skeptical of the vision Last year, the Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, warned that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of…

The Guardian · UK

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pitching the concept of “sovereign AI” in Kazakhstan – part of his global crusade urging nations to build domestic computing infrastructure using the firm’s chips – as the energy-rich nation…

South China Morning Post · China

AI uncovered long-hidden programming flaws, triggering a rare global cyber-security response.

BBC News · UK

Chinese artificial intelligence chip giant Cambricon Technologies reported a 147.7 per cent surge in third-quarter profit on Friday, as the country’s aggressive push to replace Nvidia chips continues to fuel high growth…

South China Morning Post · China

Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser, Wind Waker on the iPhone, Super Smash Bros. in mixed reality.

The Verge

An old idea springs anew as a chorus of influential voices predicts that AI may trigger crises of vast magnitude In a preface to his book Capitalism and Freedom, the American economist Milton Friedman famously observed…

The Guardian · UK

OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.

OpenAI, company post

Indian workers are being paid to film themselves at work and the footage is used to train AI.

BBC News · UK

This article was first published by The Korea Times in a partnership with the South China Morning Post.

South China Morning Post · China

Take a selfie to see how healthy you are: the idea is enticing and this new research is promising.

The Guardian · UK

Chinese artificial intelligence model developers DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed export registration procedures and proceeded with open-source releases and overseas licensing activities, according to Chinese state…

South China Morning Post · China

The company plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.

TechCrunch

Chinese stocks rebounded on Friday after a sell-off drove the benchmark index into a bear market, as surging trading volumes in the nation’s biggest exchange-traded funds (ETFs) pointed to possible state buying and…

South China Morning Post · China

The artificial intelligence agent software market across Asia, Australia and New Zealand is set to expand more than 14-fold by 2030, according to research firm Omdia, as Chinese tech companies increasingly deploy…

South China Morning Post · China

MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.

TechCrunch

OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.

OpenAI, company post

Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.

TechCrunch

Datacenter and chip costs fueled sharp decrease in AI sector although non-AI stocks still had a strong showing The latest shudder for stocks in the AI industry pulled markets lower worldwide on Thursday, while oil…

The Guardian · UK

WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”

Wired

The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.

TechCrunch

OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?

TechCrunch

Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.

TechCrunch

Fast, focused, low-cost decisions for any application.

OpenAI, company post

Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.

TechCrunch

The current US administration is an obstacle, but public demand for protection will ultimately prevail Organisations around the world scrambled on Thursday to fix critical flaws in PHP, the software that powers much of…

The Guardian · UK

Websites around the world have been taken offline as governments and businesses scramble to fix a flaw in the computer language PHP.

The Guardian · UK

Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.

TechCrunch

Websites around the world have been taken offline as governments and businesses scramble to fix a flaw in the computer language PHP.

The Guardian · UK

The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.

TechCrunch

Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.

Ars Technica

Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.

TechCrunch

A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.

Google DeepMind, company post

Unitree Robotics is developing a “self-evolving” feedback loop designed to allow humanoid robots to write code, run simulations and improve their real-world performance independently, founder Wang Xingxing said, in a…

South China Morning Post · China

Deepening “symbiosis” with artificial intelligence model start-up DeepSeek is helping Chinese tech champion Huawei Technologies catch up with Nvidia’s chip hardware and software ecosystem in a scenario that could mean…

South China Morning Post · China

BBC News · UK

The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.

Wired

What forward deployed engineering means at OpenAI

OpenAI, company post

Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They’re now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.

Wired

Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees, helping teams research, analyze data, create presentations, and complete complex workflows.

OpenAI, company post

Meta’s board feared that its CEO’s departure could disrupt the company’s AI ambitions. A new stock agreement gives him financial incentives to stay put.

Wired

Government agencies and companies around the world shut down websites as they raced Thursday to protect themselves from hacks after artificial intelligence uncovered critical flaws in a widely used programming language…

South China Morning Post · China

How OpenAI works with distribution partners to uphold consistent safeguards, support responsible access, and clarify expectations in our Usage Policies.

OpenAI, company post

Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.

Ars Technica

Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.

Ars Technica

Trump’s EPA can't unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.

Ars Technica

AT&T is working with OpenAI to make legal knowledge easier to access. Learn how its LegalEdge team is rethinking intake and scaling legal judgment.

OpenAI, company post

Recursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks.

Wired

OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.

Ars Technica

The US government’s latest ban on Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek could have a chilling effect on the wider American business community and deter companies from adopting low-cost Chinese AI models,…

South China Morning Post · China

From local businesses to global brands, more advertisers can now reach people as they explore, compare and decide what to buy in ChatGPT.

OpenAI, company post

OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini’s Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace.

OpenAI, company post

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) finance chiefs reached a consensus on economic policy coordination and cooperation on financing technology and artificial intelligence at a landmark two-day gathering in Hong…

South China Morning Post · China

Patch the Planet connects security researchers, maintainers, and incident responders to help address critical vulnerabilities across open source.

OpenAI, company post

Learn how OpenAI built ChatGPT’s LLM-powered ad stack to understand conversational intent, keep ads separate from answers, and deliver relevant ads at scale.

OpenAI, company post

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage in Berlin on Wednesday, as the world’s most valuable company faces heightened investor scrutiny over whether the massive artificial intelligence spending boom – the…

South China Morning Post · China

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed to run AI models efficiently, as a senior researcher at the company described the growing divide…

South China Morning Post · China

See how OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to uncover promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells.

OpenAI, company post

The growing popularity of Chinese artificial intelligence models has emerged as a key risk factor for Anthropic ahead of its blockbuster initial public offering, according to US research firm Hedgeye Risk Management.

South China Morning Post · China

Cloudflare uses OpenAI Daybreak to investigate vulnerabilities and propose fixes for review. Its developers use Codex to build faster and improve code quality.

OpenAI, company post

OpenAI outlines a blueprint for empowering cyber defenders with frontier AI, stronger safeguards, modernized cybersecurity, and more resilient public institutions.

OpenAI, company post

Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.

Ars Technica

It's probably time to audit your Gemini settings.

Ars Technica

Ukraine’s latest drone innovation may boost bleak odds of evacuating casualties.

Ars Technica

Meta argues nobody “decided” to pirate books to train AI.

Ars Technica

Just days after announcing his departure from Moonshot AI, teen Chinese artificial intelligence prodigy Nathan Chen Guangyu seems to have found his next destination.

South China Morning Post · China

Meta is suspending the sharing feature while it investigates its privacy.

Ars Technica

China has set up a new state-owned enterprise dedicated to managing the country’s massive data resources, a significant move designed to turbocharge the nation’s artificial intelligence industry and bolster its digital…

South China Morning Post · China

Yuki Chen, a prolific Chinese cybersecurity researcher, has joined leading Chinese artificial intelligence model company Z.ai as the country’s AI sector grapples with the technology’s growing impact on global…

South China Morning Post · China

An independent Schlotzsky’s and Cinnabon franchisee cut menu repricing time by 95% and built a workflow that could free up $100K in cash flow.

OpenAI, company post

Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor.

MIT Technology Review

Terminal X’s Eval Agent grades outputs against a 54-criterion rubric, catching 25% more deviances from a fund’s mandate with GPT-6.1 Sol.

OpenAI, company post

Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has seen more than 6 billion chips shipped based on its XuanTie RISC-V architecture, marking a milestone as the tech giant doubles down on the open standard in…

South China Morning Post · China

OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio to bring AI-powered operations to life sciences R&D, helping biopharma teams accelerate drug development and advance new treatments.

OpenAI, company post

US fears Saudi government will help ex-OpenAI engineer flee spying charges.

Ars Technica

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here.

MIT Technology Review

“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI…

MIT Technology Review

Delayed Steam Next Fest demo is a sign of a growing problem for indie devs.

Ars Technica

Character.AI faces claims its bots encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.

Ars Technica

TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

Chip startup Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation, in a round led by Trace Capital and Innovation X.

TechCrunch

Learn how OpenAI is improving ChatGPT across low-resource programming languages, with new evaluations for software engineering, SQLite, and COBOL migration.

OpenAI, company post

What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play.

MIT Technology Review

The outside watchdog can publish its findings without Anthropic's approval.

Ars Technica

When artificial intelligence agents first arrived, they came with a tantalising promise: autonomous “digital workers” that would finally free humans from corporate drudgery.

South China Morning Post · China

TechCrunch

TechCrunch

When shoppers step into Rokid’s brand new flagship store in Hong Kong, they are greeted not by eager sales associates, but by glowing monitor screens and a robotic system waiting at the exit.

South China Morning Post · China

China’s proposed export bans and controls of artificial intelligence technologies aim to tighten Beijing’s grip in the strategically vital sector, casting a cloud over the commercial prospects of domestic model…

South China Morning Post · China

TechCrunch

TechCrunch

China’s artificial intelligence companies have spent years persuading consumers to pay for their technology.

South China Morning Post · China

The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.

Ars Technica

Discord user flagged AI CSAM, triggering arrest of New Jersey deputy AG.

Ars Technica

With ia.i, a conversational interface, and the IARA governance platform, Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees — in one of Brazil’s most regulated sectors.

OpenAI, company post

Meta “streamlined” its commercial TOS. Legal experts warn it’s an AI power grab.

Ars Technica

Watch an exclusive clip from Super Scam Me where a victim tracks down her scammer.

Ars Technica

Alibaba Group Holding’s two major domestic online marketplaces, Taobao and Tmall, plan to greatly expand the use of artificial intelligence across merchants’ operations next year, a senior executive said, as the…

South China Morning Post · China

TechCrunch · Global

Nature · Global

Axios

A draft list would ban exports of 14 technologies, including AI, biotechnology and solar power, and restrict 26 more.

South China Morning Post

Chinese chip and tech firms have flagged as much as six-fold growth in unaudited third-quarter profits, as huge demand for home-grown processors and artificial intelligence infrastructure filters through links in the…

South China Morning Post · China

A 17-year-old artificial intelligence researcher formerly with Moonshot AI has announced his departure for the United States, sparking intense speculation about his next move amid heated competition for elite talent…

South China Morning Post · China

The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) opened the city’s first experimental hub for embodied artificial intelligence on Thursday with the participation of seven mainland and Hong Kong companies, including industry…

South China Morning Post · China

A fleet of artificial intelligence agents operating on a Tencent Holdings cloud platform made thousands of attempts to circumvent security protections on Alibaba Group Holding’s mapping service, according to findings by…

South China Morning Post · China

Two engineers shipped Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation.

OpenAI, company post

Anant Kumar builds tools to compare loan valuations and analyze credit agreements, using Codex for code review and faster follow-ups.

OpenAI, company post

Hong Kong investors are Asia’s most ambitious stock pickers, but they have much more subdued return expectations than regional peers swept up in enthusiasm over artificial intelligence, according to a survey by a global…

South China Morning Post · China

Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.

OpenAI, company post

Accelerating the search for novel antimicrobial peptides using Google Antigravity for Science.

Google DeepMind, company post

Celebrate Teachers’ Day with AI for Educators in Brazilian Portuguese and see how Study Mode can help teachers support active, step-by-step learning.

OpenAI, company post

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek apologised and promised compensation to users after its services suffered a nearly five-hour outage on Thursday.

South China Morning Post · China

OpenAI recently announced perhaps its biggest mathematics breakthrough yet: it released novel results on 377 high-profile open problems.

South China Morning Post · China

Axios reports, citing one unnamed source, that the FTC has subpoenaed both companies over consumer harms.

Axios

TechCrunch

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Nature · Global

TSMC confirmed talks on Musk's proposed Texas chip plant but says it would insist on operational control. There is no deal yet.

South China Morning Post

Six METR researchers get employee-level access at Anthropic, and METR will publish its assessments.

TechCrunch

In collaboration with OpenAI, Sullivan & Cromwell developed Agreement Analyzer, an AI tool for identifying issues in a draft agreement.

OpenAI, company post

Nature · China

See how Amp pushes the frontier of what agents can do with GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, GPT-Live-1, and Sign in with ChatGPT.

OpenAI, company post

With OpenAI Daybreak, SentinelOne cuts weeks of malware analysis to hours, creating capacity to investigate more threats.

OpenAI, company post

With GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex, and Daybreak for cybersecurity, this AI lab builds agents that focus for days and improve with use.

OpenAI, company post

Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI. Its security team investigates threats faster and proposes patches in minutes.

OpenAI, company post

Learn how Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore uses lightweight on-device Gemma models to intercept conversational scams in private chats with zero cloud data egress.

Google DeepMind, company post

New analysis shows how agentic AI adoption is growing across EU enterprises and small businesses—and where deeper use could unlock more value.

OpenAI, company post

The plan for an orbiting data centre involves linking satellites around Earth.

BBC News · UK

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TechCrunch

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Higgsfield brings creators longer videos with GPT-6 Astra, precise visuals with GPT-Image-2.5, and a path to voice filmmaking with GPT-Live.

OpenAI, company post

UK AI Security Institute (primary source) · UK

Meta's Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. The benchmark comparisons are Meta's own.

TechCrunch

Nature · Global

A ByteDance-led paper, not yet peer-reviewed, says DeepSeek's cost-saving approach may make its models less accurate.

South China Morning Post

TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.

OpenAI, company post

Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.

OpenAI, company post

Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.

OpenAI, company post

TechCrunch

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Chinese AI lab Manus raised more than $500 million, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital. It is the lab's first round since Meta was forced to call off its $2 billion acquisition.

TechCrunch · China

TechCrunch

With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.

OpenAI, company post

LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matched Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and managed budgets strategically.

OpenAI, company post

OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

OpenAI, company post

Nature

College Planner is coming to ChatGPT for Teens to help students manage college applications, alongside new flashcards, quizzes, and a teen AI council.

OpenAI, company post

Radisson partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT plugin using OpenAI technology, helping travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning their trips.

OpenAI, company post

GPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.

OpenAI, company post

Google DeepMind, company post

Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to connect frontier models with enterprise knowledge and help teams plan, build, and deliver work.

OpenAI, company post

TechCrunch · EU

Jump Trading uses OpenAI to expand quantitative research. See how longer-running AI workflows combine multiple data sources with human review.

OpenAI, company post

OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub.

OpenAI, company post

Learn how OpenAI and Ironclad are training and evaluating AI agents on complex contracting workflows to advance computer use for professional work.

OpenAI, company post

How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules. Learn where watermarks apply, how detection works, and why access starts with researchers.

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TechCrunch · EU

IEEE Spectrum · Global

OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.

OpenAI, company post

Learn how startups can choose GPT-6 models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production.

OpenAI, company post

Chatham Financial uses Codex and GPT-5.6 to build technology and redesign workflows, cutting trade validation from 30 minutes to under 4.

OpenAI, company post

Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress.

OpenAI, company post

Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.

OpenAI, company post

As it opens a new location, the social club prepares grant applications in 2 hours instead of 3 days and liquor-license materials in 3 hours instead of 4 days.

OpenAI, company post

Google DeepMind, company post

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

Google DeepMind, company post

Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.

OpenAI, company post

OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small teams are using AI.

OpenAI, company post

How a Chinese AI model was persuaded to ignore its rules and give dangerous advice.

BBC News · UK

Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.

OpenAI, company post

Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.

OpenAI, company post

Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.

OpenAI, company post

Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents

OpenAI, company post

OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.

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UK AI Security Institute (primary source) · UK

OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.

OpenAI, company post

GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.

OpenAI, company post

We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things.

OpenAI, company post

British AI cloud company Nscale raised $3.36 billion through a convertible note led by Third Point, with $1 billion of it from Nvidia, ahead of a planned US listing.

TechCrunch · UK

Nature