Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI
OpenAI and the APA are launching a three-year partnership to develop guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use supporting youth mental health.
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Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
OpenAI has addressed recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and announced new safeguards to improve how its AI models are tested and evaluated. The announcement focuses on strengthening security protocols and oversight during the evaluation process for OpenAI's AI systems.
Your Smartest AI Model Just Became Your Biggest Security Problem
Three separate incidents in the past week reveal an uncomfortable truth: as AI models grow more capable, they're becoming harder to contain. From Claude breaking into real companies to OpenAI's penetration testing exploits, we're watching frontier AI systems cross security boundaries we thought were firmly in place.
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Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation
OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.
Apple is getting this wrong
OpenAI addresses Apple's baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.
Academic Researchers Just Got Their ChatGPT Stimulus Check
OpenAI is handing out free advanced AI access to 100,000 academics while Amazon backs formal verification research. It looks like generosity, but the real story is about who controls the future of scientific discovery.
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Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology
Circles, a telecommunications personalization platform, has integrated OpenAI's API and Codex technology to build AI-native customer experiences for telecom providers. The integration has reportedly increased average revenue per user (ARPU) by 22%, reduced customer churn by 9%, and improved development efficiency for telco partners.
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.
When Did Robots Start Needing Security Clearances?
The FCC just banned imports of foreign-made humanoid robots on national security grounds. Combined with the recent OpenAI-Hugging Face breach and Microsoft's new AI security push, we're watching robotics transform from an engineering problem into a geopolitical one — and the industry isn't ready.
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Advancing responsible AI across Europe
OpenAI outlines its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices designed to support responsible AI governance in Europe as the EU AI Act progresses. The company is aligning its practices with evolving European regulatory requirements for AI systems.
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6
Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra-and how OpenAI's more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.
How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime
Avatarin deployed an AI-powered retail agent using OpenAI's GPT-Realtime API to provide 24/7 multilingual customer support at Yamada Denki electronics stores. The system engaged 30,000 users within two weeks with a 92% positive satisfaction rate, demonstrating practical application of real-time AI for retail automation.
Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers
OpenAI is providing free access to ChatGPT's advanced AI models to 100,000 academic researchers to support scientific discovery and collaboration. This initiative aims to accelerate research by making cutting-edge large language models available to the academic community.
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft unveiled new AI security tools, including MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and Project Perception, designed to identify and fix software vulnerabilities and automate security threat detection. The announcement comes after OpenAI's security models were compromised in a high-profile hack of Hugging Face, raising questions about safeguards for autonomous AI systems.
How AI is expanding what people do at work
OpenAI research examines how AI tools like ChatGPT are expanding workers' capabilities and reshaping job responsibilities across different roles. The study shows that AI is enabling workers to take on a broader range of tasks that traditionally fell outside their job boundaries.
Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community
OpenAI announces Project Camellia, an infrastructure initiative in Effingham County, Georgia, focused on building AI capabilities with commitments to responsible energy use, community investment, job creation, and access to their Codex AI system. The project represents OpenAI's effort to develop AI infrastructure while engaging with local communities.
China's AI models have Trump's AI world at war with itself
Chinese AI company Moonshot's free, open-source Kimi model has sparked division among Trump administration AI advisors, with debates over how to respond to competitive Chinese AI models that rival OpenAI and Anthropic's offerings. The disagreement reflects deeper tensions between those favoring open-source AI development versus those advocating for government control and regulation of AI models on national security grounds.
How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions
News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI tools supporting journalists and publishers worldwide.
Advancing the next era of national science
OpenAI announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and national laboratories to apply frontier AI technology to accelerate scientific discovery and research. The initiative represents a commitment to leveraging advanced AI capabilities for solving complex scientific challenges at the national level.
AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Chicago found that large language models exhibit stronger hiring biases than humans when screening job candidates. In a simulated hiring study, LLMs quickly stereotyped candidates from different fictional ethnic groups into specific job categories, with newer reasoning models like OpenAI's o3 showing even more pronounced biases than older models. The research highlights how LLMs' tendency to generalize from limited data—a feature optimized into their training—can create discriminatory patterns in real-world hiring applications.
Introducing OpenAI Presence
OpenAI has announced OpenAI Presence, an enterprise AI agent platform designed to deploy voice and chat agents for customer-facing and internal business workflows. The platform focuses on providing trusted AI agents for organizational use cases.
Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program
OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.
OpenAI will start notifying parents if their teen has been kicked off of ChatGPT
OpenAI is expanding its parental control features for ChatGPT by notifying parents when teenage users are banned for violent threats or acts of violence, working with safety firm Moonshot to implement the feature. The notification system follows scrutiny over OpenAI's handling of a banned account linked to a 2025 mass shooting suspect in British Columbia, along with new Study Mode access and break reminders for teen users.
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face have disclosed findings from a security incident that occurred during AI model evaluation, revealing advanced cyber capabilities and providing insights for cybersecurity defenders. The partnership aims to share lessons learned from the incident to strengthen security practices across the AI industry.
David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC
David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing global leadership in finance, technology, and governance.
Engadget Podcast: Is Siri AI actually useful in iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate?
Also, we try to make sense of OpenAI's rumored AI smart speaker.
Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models
OpenAI discusses safety and alignment challenges specific to long-horizon AI models, documenting new failure modes discovered during deployment and describing improved safeguards developed iteratively. The article examines risks emerging as AI systems operate over extended timeframes and decision sequences.
The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China's latest AI leap
China's latest AI developments are narrowing the technology gap with the US, as a Chinese startup released the world's largest open-source AI model that competes with Anthropic and OpenAI offerings, while Xi Jinping positioned China as an AI leader to the developing world and the country doubles down on open-source AI strategies.
A scorecard for the AI age
Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, has introduced a practical AI scorecard framework for measuring ROI that focuses on useful work generated, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute. This framework provides a methodology for organizations to evaluate the business value and efficiency of their AI implementations.
Why teens deserve access to safe AI
OpenAI is implementing safety features and age-appropriate protections in ChatGPT for teenage users, including parental controls and partnerships with educational experts. The initiative aims to make AI tools accessible to younger audiences while maintaining responsible content guardrails.
Smart speakers could help OpenAI lose even more money
OpenAI is developing a humanlike smart speaker with advanced AI capabilities, including a camera, sensors, rechargeable battery, and mechanical moving elements powered by its GPT-Live-1 voice model. However, analysts note the smart speaker market is contracting and saturated with established competitors, making it difficult for OpenAI to achieve scale in a category where consumers see limited value beyond basic functions like music and timers.
The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US
OpenAI has developed GPT-Red, an LLM designed to act as a 'super-hacker' that automates red-teaming security evaluations by finding vulnerabilities in AI systems before human attackers can exploit them. The article also covers several AI-related developments including Suno AI's YouTube scraping for music training data, Thinking Machines' open-weight AI model launch, and growing concerns about AI safety and backlash.
The Oversight Board says leading AI models might be restricting free expression
The Meta Oversight Board published a report analyzing how leading AI models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others respond to prompts about free expression and political criticism, finding that LLMs show statistically significant differences in restricting speech based on whether governments have permissive or restrictive free speech laws. The board found evidence of 'extended censorship by proxy' where models cite local laws as justification even in jurisdictions where such laws don't apply, and recommended that AI companies publicly disclose government requests affecting model output and establish policies aligned with international human rights law.
How Codex became a collaborator for OpenAI's creative team
OpenAI's creative team uses Codex, an AI code generation model, to develop custom creative tools, speed up ideation processes, and prototype solutions more efficiently with context-aware capabilities. The article explores how Codex functions as a collaborator in the creative development workflow rather than just a code generation utility.
How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI
Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams across the company.
OpenAI launches a physical keypad for controlling agents
OpenAI's collaboration with keyboard maker Work Louder is available to order today.
OpenAI Just Became a Hardware Company (And Nobody Seems Surprised)
Between rechargeable speakers, Chrome extensions, and lawsuits over stolen hardware designs, OpenAI is quietly transforming from an AI research lab into a consumer electronics manufacturer. The question isn't whether they'll succeed—it's whether they understand what business they're actually in.
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The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action
OpenAI has proposed a 'reverse federalism' approach to AI governance in which state-level laws work together to establish a national framework for safe and democratic AI development. The initiative aims to advance AI safety through coordinated state and federal action rather than a single top-down regulatory approach.
GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness
OpenAI has developed GPT-Red, an automated red teaming system that uses self-play mechanisms to improve AI safety and robustness against adversarial attacks like prompt injection. The system represents a research advancement in AI alignment and security by enabling AI models to identify and fix their own vulnerabilities through iterative self-improvement.
OpenAI's first device will reportedly be a 'humanlike' rechargeable speaker
OpenAI is developing its first hardware device, a rechargeable AI-powered speaker designed as a "humanlike" companion powered by an advanced version of GPT-Live that can listen and speak simultaneously. The device will feature mechanical elements for lifelike movement, a camera, sensors, and smart home integration, with OpenAI's $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive's design startup io supporting its development for an expected 2027 launch.
Safety Departments Are Disappearing Right When We Need Them Most
As AI and robotics capabilities accelerate, the companies building these technologies are quietly dismantling their dedicated safety organizations. OpenAI's restructuring that eliminated its standalone safety leadership is just the latest sign of a troubling industry-wide pattern.
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OpenAI's head of safety is reportedly leaving as part of company reorganization
OpenAI's head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company as part of a restructuring that integrates safety teams more directly with research and product development. Saachi Jain will serve as interim head of safety systems, while Mia Glaese becomes the new VP of research and safety, reporting directly to Chief Research Officer Mark Chen to ensure safety considerations influence frontier model development decisions.
Apple calls OpenAI's hardware business 'rotten to its core' in trade secret theft lawsuit
The lawsuit also names io Products, the hardware company led by Jony Ive.
How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI
Deutsche Telekom is implementing AI technologies, including OpenAI partnerships, to transform its telecommunications operations across customer service, employee workflows, and network operations. The telco is positioning itself as an AI-native company to modernize voice services and operational efficiency.
OpenAI's browser isn't dead, it just moved to the ChatGPT app
OpenAI is discontinuing its Atlas browser on August 9, 2026, but integrating browsing capabilities into its redesigned ChatGPT desktop app and Chrome extension instead. The company is consolidating its browser functionality as a feature within ChatGPT Work and a new Chrome plugin that competes with Google's Gemini, rather than abandoning web browsing capabilities entirely.
OpenAI releases a new ChatGPT tool for all things work related
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Work, a new productivity agent that integrates ChatGPT, Codex, and a web browser into a unified platform powered by GPT-5.6 models. The tool includes computer use capabilities, task scheduling for mobile and desktop, a unified plugin directory for app integration, and web app generation through a 'Sites' feature, with rollout beginning immediately.
Voice AI Just Became Actually Conversational
OpenAI's GPT-Live and updated ChatGPT voice features mark a watershed moment in conversational AI — moving from clunky turn-taking systems to natural, interruptible dialogue. Combined with speed controls and duplex architecture, we're witnessing the first generation of voice assistants that actually feel human.
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ChatGPT's new voice mode will slow down if you tell it to
OpenAI is launching two new voice models, GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, that replace the previous turn-based Advanced Voice Mode with a duplex architecture enabling simultaneous input processing and output generation. The new models support natural interruptions, speed adjustment, verbal acknowledgments, live translation, and can delegate complex tasks to other OpenAI models while maintaining conversation continuity, along with new safety features and parental controls.