Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat

Mar 11, 2026 Announcements Introducing The Anthropic Institute

Introducing The Anthropic Institute We’re launching The Anthropic Institute, a new effort to confront the most significant challenges that powerful AI will pose to our societies. The Anthropic Institute will draw on research from across Anthropic to provide information that other researchers and the public can use during our transition to a world containing much more powerful AI systems. In the five years since Anthropic began, AI progress has moved incredibly quickly. It took us two years to release our first commercial model, and just three more to develop models that can discover severe cybersecurity vulnerabilities, take on a wide range of real work, and even begin to accelerate the pace of AI development itself. We predict that far more dramatic progress will follow in the next two years. One of our company’s core convictions is that AI development is…

Normalizing Flows with Iterative Denoising

Normalizing Flows with Iterative Denoising AuthorsTianrong Chen, Jiatao Gu, David Berthelot, Joshua Susskind, Shuangfei Zhai Normalizing Flows with Iterative Denoising AuthorsTianrong Chen, Jiatao Gu, David Berthelot, Joshua Susskind, Shuangfei Zhai Normalizing Flows (NFs) are a classical family of likelihood-based methods that have received revived attention. Recent efforts such as TARFlow have shown that NFs are capable of achieving promising performance on image modeling tasks, making them viable alternatives to other methods such as diffusion models. In this work, we further advance the state of Normalizing Flow generative models by introducing iterative TARFlow (iTARFlow). Unlike diffusion models, iTARFlow maintains a fully end-to-end, likelihood-based objective during training. During sampling, it performs autoregressive generation followed by an iterative denoising procedure inspired by diffusion-style methods. Through extensive experiments, we show that iTARFlow achieves competitive performance across ImageNet resolutions of 64, 128, and 256 pixels,…

Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market

Anyone following the modern game industry knows that easy-to-use game engines and the accelerating shift to digital distribution have helped enable a massive increase in the quantity of commercial games released each year, both on console storefronts and especially on Steam. Now, Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Hideaki Nishino says we should expect the rate of new game releases to accelerate even faster as new AI development tools make it easier for developers big and small to pursue new projects efficiently. In a presentation to investors on Friday, Nishino noted that Sony “expect[s] to see a meaningful increase in the volume and diversity of content available to players” in the near future. That increase is the inevitable result of AI development tools that are “lowering barriers to creation, accelerating development cycles, and enabling more creators to enter the market,”…

"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original

As its name implies, the venerable Notepad++ text editor began as a more capable version of the classic Windows Notepad, with features such as line numbering and syntax highlighting. It was created in 2003 by Don Ho, who continues to be its primary author and maintainer, and it has been a Windows-exclusive app throughout its existence (older Notepad++ versions support OSes as old as Windows 95; the current version officially supports everything going back to Windows 7). I’m not a devoted user of the app, but I was aware of its history, which is why I was surprised to see news of a “Notepad++ for Mac” port making the rounds last week, as though it were a port of the original available from the Notepad++ website. Apparently, this news surprised Ho as well, who claims that the Mac version and…

Florida probes ChatGPT role in mass shooting. OpenAI says bot "not responsible."

OpenAI now faces a criminal probe after ChatGPT advised a gunman ahead of a mass shooting at a university in Florida, where two people were killed and six were wounded last year. In a press release, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier confirmed that the investigation into OpenAI’s potential criminal liability was launched after reviewing shocking chat logs between ChatGPT and an account linked to the suspected gunman, Phoenix Ikner. The 20-year-old Florida State University student is currently awaiting trial “on multiple charges of murder and attempted murder,” Politico reported. At a press conference, Uthmeier revealed that the logs showed that ChatGPT provided “significant advice” before Ikner allegedly “committed such heinous crimes.” The attorney general emphasized that under Florida’s aiding and abetting laws, “if ChatGPT were a person,” it too “would be facing charges for murder.” For OpenAI, the probe will…

Anthropic's Mythos AI model sparks fears of turbocharged hacking

Anthropic’s new Mythos AI model is raising concern among governments and companies that it could outpace current cyber security defenses, turbocharge hacking, and expose weaknesses faster than they can be fixed. The San Francisco-based startup released a cyber-focused model this month, which has shown the ability to detect software flaws faster than humans but also demonstrated it can generate exploits needed to take advantage of them. In one alarming case, the Mythos model showed it could break out of a secure digital environment to contact an Anthropic worker and publicly reveal software glitches, overriding the intention of its human makers. This week, OpenAI also released its own advanced cyber model with similar capabilities. The developments have led senior international financial officials and government ministers around the world scrambling to understand the dangers, in some cases seeking access to the new…

Meta's AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive

The rising costs of RAM and other computing components are pushing up the price of Meta’s Quest VR headsets, which the company says will increase by $50–$100 (about 12–20 percent) starting on April 19. In announcing that price increase on Thursday, the company cited the “global surge in the price of critical components—specifically memory chips—[that] is impacting almost every category of consumer electronics, including VR.” But unlike many of the other tech companies that have been pushed into similar price increases in recent months, Meta’s own spending priorities are at least partly to blame for the rising prices of those components. The company’s recent hard pivot to the “AI superintelligence” race has directly contributed to the conditions that are now making its own Quest headsets more expensive. Spending like a drunk sailor In January, Meta announced that it plans to…

Agents that transact: Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, built with Coinbase and Stripe

Artificial Intelligence Agents that transact: Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, built with Coinbase and Stripe We’re in the midst of a fundamental shift in how software gets built and used. AI agents are moving beyond assistants that wait for instructions. They call APIs, access MCP servers, coordinate with other agents, and complete complex multi-step tasks on behalf of users. As agents take on increasingly diverse tasks, the ecosystem around them is expanding just as fast to meet that demand. Looking further ahead, services, tools, and content must be designed for humans and agents. Agents will discover, evaluate, and pay for resources when they need, all within a single execution loop. The services that support them must be priced and consumed in that way: fractions of a cent per call, billed in real time. Early protocols like x402, ACP, MPP, and…

Introducing OS Level Actions in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser

Artificial Intelligence Introducing OS Level Actions in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser AI agents that automate web workflows operate within the browser’s web layer, the DOM that Playwright and the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) expose. AgentCore Browser provides a secure, isolated browser environment for this, and it works well for the vast majority of automation: navigating pages, filling forms, clicking elements, extracting content. But the web layer has a hard boundary. Anything that the operating system renders (native dialogs, security prompts, certificate choosers, context menus, even Chrome settings) sits outside the DOM entirely. CDP can’t see it, and Playwright can’t interact with it. When a web application calls window.print() and a system print dialog appears, Playwright has no DOM to interact with. When a workflow requires a keyboard shortcut or a right-click context menu, CDP has no mechanism to issue those…

Beyond BI: How the Dataset Q&A feature of Amazon Quick powers the next generation of data decisions

Artificial Intelligence Beyond BI: How the Dataset Q&A feature of Amazon Quick powers the next generation of data decisions Business leaders across industries rely on operational dashboards as the shared source of truth that their teams execute against daily. But dashboards are built to answer known questions. When teams need to explore further, ad-hoc, multi-dimensional, or unforeseen questions, they hit a bottleneck. They wait hours or days for BI teams to build new views or update reports. The Dataset Q&A feature bridges that gap. You can ask questions in natural language, get accurate answers in seconds, with no new dashboards to build, and no queue to wait in. Just an interactive conversation with your existing datasets, without disrupting the dashboards your teams already depend on. The challenge AWS customers expect fast, informed support when they’re evaluating new technologies, troubleshooting production…

Introducing granular cost attribution for Amazon Bedrock

Artificial Intelligence Introducing granular cost attribution for Amazon Bedrock As AI inference grows into a significant share of cloud spend, understanding who and what are driving costs is essential for chargebacks, cost optimization, and financial planning. Today, we’re announcing granular cost attribution for Amazon Bedrock inference. Amazon Bedrock now automatically attributes inference costs to the IAM principal that made the call. An IAM principal can be an IAM user, a role assumed by an application, or a federated identity from a provider like Okta or Entra ID. Attribution flows to your AWS Billing and works across models, with no resources to manage and no changes to your existing workflows. With optional cost allocation tags, you can aggregate costs by team, project, or custom dimension in AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR 2.0). In this post, we…

Hear more about interactive world models in our latest podcast.

The latest episode of the Google AI: Release Notes podcast focuses on Genie 3, a real-time, interactive world model. Host Logan Kilpatrick chats with Diego Rivas, Shlomi Fruchter, and Jack Parker-Holder from the Project Genie team to discuss the evolution from passive video generation to playable, simulated environments. They dive deep into the technical challenges of maintaining world consistency and memory, the experience of “stepping inside” a 2D image, and the vision for world models as a critical training ground for future AI agents. Watch the episode below, or listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

We’re announcing the 12 recipients of our AI for Science fund

We’re announcing the 12 recipients of our AI for Science fund Science is the cornerstone of human progress. Yet, while the world’s problems are becoming increasingly complex, the pace of new discovery is actually slowing. To help overcome this, Google.org created a $20 million AI for Science fund to support academic, nonprofit and startup organizations using AI to tackle the world’s most complex scientific challenges. We're equipping researchers with the right resources to use AI to unlock the impossible and achieve in years what used to take decades. Today, we’re announcing the twelve recipients of the AI for Science fund. These teams aren't just using AI to synthesize and process data; they are using it to break through the most significant obstacles across scientific domains like health, agriculture and biodiversity to turn discoveries into real-world solutions. Each of these organizations…

TRL v1.0: Post-Training Library Built to Move with the Field

TRL v1.0: Post-Training Library Built to Move with the Field TRL now implements more than 75 post-training methods. But coverage isn’t the goal by itself. What matters is making these methods easy to try, compare, and actually use in practice. The design of the library wasn’t decided upfront. It is the result of years of iteration — the first commit goes back more than six years — and it has been shaped by everything the field threw at it: new algorithms, new models, shifting paradigms. Over time, this pressure forced the codebase toward a very specific design. Parts of it might look unusual at first, but like in many evolutionary codebases, they exist for a reason. TRL is built for a field that doesn’t sit still. So the question is not how to design the perfect abstraction. It is how…

Introducing Storage Buckets on the Hugging Face Hub

Introducing Storage Buckets on the Hugging Face Hub Storage Buckets are built exactly for this: mutable, S3-like object storage you can browse on the Hub, script from Python, or manage with the hf CLI. And because they are backed by Xet, they are especially efficient for ML artifacts that share content across files. Why we built Buckets Git starts to feel like the wrong abstraction pretty quickly when you're dealing with: - Training clusters writing checkpoints and optimizer states throughout a run - Data pipelines processing raw datasets iteratively - Agents storing traces, memory, and shared knowledge graphs The storage need in all these cases is the same: write fast, overwrite when needed, sync directories, remove stale files, and keep things moving. A Bucket is a non-versioned storage container on the Hub. It lives under a user or organization namespace,…

Introducing Modular Diffusers - Composable Building Blocks for Diffusion Pipelines

Introducing Modular Diffusers - Composable Building Blocks for Diffusion Pipelines DiffusionPipeline class with a more flexible, composable alternative. In this post, we'll walk through how Modular Diffusers works — from the familiar API to run a modular pipeline, to building fully custom blocks and composing them into your own workflow. We'll also show how it integrates with Mellon, a node-based visual workflow interface that you can use to wire Modular Diffusers blocks together. Table of contents Quickstart Here is a simple example of how to run inference with FLUX.2 Klein 4B using pre-built blocks: import torch from diffusers import ModularPipeline # Create a modular pipeline - this only defines the workflow, model weights have not been loaded yet pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained( "black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-4B" ) # Now load the model weights — configure dtype, quantization, etc in this step pipe.load_components(torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16) pipe.to("cuda") #…

Introducing SyGra Studio

Introducing SyGra Studio What Studio lets you do - Configure and validate models with guided forms (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Ollama, Vertex, Bedrock, vLLM, custom endpoints). - Connect Hugging Face, file-system, or ServiceNow data sources and preview rows before execution. - Configure nodes by selecting models, writing prompts (with auto-suggested variables), and defining outputs or structured schemas. - Design downstream outputs using shared state variables and Pydantic-powered mappings. - Execute flows end-to-end and review generated results instantly with node-level progress. - Debug with inline logs, breakpoints, Monaco-backed code editors, and auto-saved drafts. - Monitor per-run token cost, latency, and guardrail outcomes with execution history stored in .executions/ . Let’s walk through this experience step by step. Step 1: Configure the data source Open Studio, click Create Flow, and Start/End nodes appear automatically. Before adding anything else: - Choose a connector (Hugging…

Introducing Daggr: Chain apps programmatically, inspect visually

Introducing Daggr: Chain apps programmatically, inspect visually Table of Contents - Background - Getting Started - Sharing Your Workflows - End-to-End Example with Different Nodes - Next Steps Background If you've built AI applications that combine multiple models or processing steps, you know the pain: chaining API calls, debugging pipelines, and losing track of intermediate results. When something goes wrong in step 5 of a 10-step workflow, you often have to re-run everything just to see what happened. Most developers either build fragile scripts that are hard to debug or turn to heavy orchestration platforms designed for production pipelines—not rapid experimentation. We've been working on Daggr to solve problems we kept running into when building AI demos and workflows: Visualize your code flow: Unlike node-based GUI editors, where you drag and connect nodes visually, Daggr takes a code-first approach. You…

Introducing Waypoint-1: Real-time interactive video diffusion from Overworld

Waypoint-1: Real-time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld Waypoint-1 Weights on the Hub - Waypoint-1-Small - Waypoint-1-Medium (Coming Soon!) Try Out The Model Overworld Stream: https://overworld.stream What is Waypoint-1? Waypoint-1 is Overworld’s real-time-interactive video diffusion model, controllable and prompted via text, mouse, and keyboard. You can give the model some frames, run the model, and have it create a world you can step into and interact with. The backbone of the model is a frame-causal rectified flow transformer trained on 10,000 hours of diverse video game footage paired with control inputs and text captions. Waypoint-1 is a latent model, meaning that it is trained on compressed frames. The standard among existing world models has become taking pre-trained video models and fine-tuning them with brief and simplified control inputs. In contrast, Waypoint-1 is trained from the get-go with a focus on interactive…

Introducing swift-huggingface: The Complete Swift Client for Hugging Face

Introducing swift-huggingface: The Complete Swift Client for Hugging Face You can start using it today as a standalone package, and it will soon integrate into swift-transformers as a replacement for its current HubApi implementation. The Problem When we released swift-transformers 1.0 earlier this year, we heard loud and clear from the community: - Downloads were slow and unreliable. Large model files (often several gigabytes) would fail partway through with no way to resume. Developers resorted to manually downloading models and bundling them with their apps — defeating the purpose of dynamic model loading. - No shared cache with the Python ecosystem. The Python transformers library stores models in~/.cache/huggingface/hub . Swift apps downloaded to a different location with a different structure. If you'd already downloaded a model using the Python CLI, you'd download it again for your Swift app. - Authentication…

Introducing AnyLanguageModel: One API for Local and Remote LLMs on Apple Platforms

Introducing AnyLanguageModel: One API for Local and Remote LLMs on Apple Platforms Developers building AI-powered apps typically take a hybrid approach, adopting some combination of: - Local models using Core ML or MLX for privacy and offline capability - Cloud providers like OpenAI or Anthropic for frontier capabilities - Apple's Foundation Models as a system-level fallback Each comes with different APIs, different requirements, different integration patterns. It's a lot, and it adds up quickly. When I interviewed developers about building AI-powered apps, friction with model integration came up immediately. One developer put it bluntly: I thought I'd quickly use the demo for a test and maybe a quick and dirty build but instead wasted so much time. Drove me nuts. The cost to experiment is high, which discourages developers from discovering that local, open-source models might actually work great for…

huggingface_hub v1.0: Five Years of Building the Foundation of Open Machine Learning

huggingface_hub v1.0: Five Years of Building the Foundation of Open Machine Learning huggingface_hub has reached v1.0 - a milestone that marks the library's maturity as the Python package powering 200,000 dependent libraries and providing core functionality for accessing over 2 million public models, 0.5 million public datasets, and 1 million public Spaces. This release introduces breaking changes designed to support the next decade of open machine learning, driven by a global community of almost 300 contributors and millions of users. 🚀 We highly recommend upgrading to v1.0 to benefit from major performance improvements and new capabilities. pip install --upgrade huggingface_hub Major changes in this release include the migration to httpx as the backend library, a completely redesigned hf CLI (which replaces the deprecated huggingface-cli ) featuring a Typer-based interface with a significantly expanded feature set, and full adoption of hf_xet…

Introducing the Palmyra-mini family: Powerful, lightweight, and ready to reason!

Introducing the Palmyra-mini family: Powerful, lightweight, and ready to reason! The team at WRITER is thrilled to announce the release of three new open models in the Palmyra-mini family. These models are designed to be powerful, lightweight, and highly performant for their size (1.5B to 1.7B), making them ideal for a wide range of applications with efficient inference. - palmyra-mini: A powerful, lightweight non-thinking base model. - palmyra-mini-thinking-a: A specialized variant optimized for complex reasoning and logic. - palmyra-mini-thinking-b: Another specialized variant that excels at mathematical equations and reasoning. The "thinking" models have been trained with a Chain of Thought (CoT) approach, which improves their reasoning abilities. We're excited to see what the community will build with these new models! GGUF and MLX quantizations are also available for your convenience: Benchmark Highlights: palmyra-mini: Our non-reasoning improved base model, delivering a…

NVIDIA Releases 6 Million Multi-Lingual Reasoning Dataset

NVIDIA Releases 6 Million Multi-Lingual Reasoning Dataset NVIDIA continues releasing permissive datasets in support of the open ecosystem with 6 Million Multilingual Reasoning Dataset. Continuing the success of the recent Nemotron Post-Training Dataset v1 release used in Llama Nemotron Super model, and our Llama Nemotron Post-Training Dataset release earlier this year, we’re excited to release the reasoning dataset translated into five target languages: French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Japanese. The newly released NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 9B brings these capabilities to the edge with leading accuracy and efficiency with a hybrid Transformer–Mamba architecture and a configurable thinking budget—so you can dial accuracy, throughput, and cost to match your real‑world needs. Model Highlights (TL;DR) - Model size: 9B parameters - Architecture: Hybrid Transformer–Mamba (Mamba‑2 + a small number of attention layers) for higher throughput at similar accuracy to Transformer‑only peers -…

Introducing AI Sheets: a tool to work with datasets using open AI models!

Introducing AI Sheets: a tool to work with datasets using open AI models! Hugging Face AI Sheets is a new, open-source tool for building, enriching, and transforming datasets using AI models with no code. The tool can be deployed locally or on the Hub. It lets you use thousands of open models from the Hugging Face Hub via Inference Providers or local models, including gpt-oss from OpenAI! Useful links Try the tool for free (no installation required): https://huggingface.co/spaces/aisheets/sheets Install and run locally: https://github.com/huggingface/sheets What is AI Sheets AI Sheets is a no-code tool for building, transforming, and enriching datasets using (open) AI models. It’s tightly integrated with the Hub and the open-source AI ecosystem. AI Sheets uses an easy-to-learn user interface, similar to a spreadsheet. The tool is built around quick experimentation, starting with small datasets before running long/costly data…

Five Big Improvements to Gradio MCP Servers

Five Big Improvements to Gradio MCP Servers To that end, here are some of the big improvements we've added to Gradio MCP servers as of version 5.38.0. Seamless Local File Support If you've tried to use a remote Gradio MCP server that takes a file as input (image, video, audio), you've probably encountered this error: This happens because the Gradio server is hosted on a different machine, meaning any input files must be accessible via a public URL so they can be downloaded remotely. While many ways exist to host files online, they all add a manual step to your workflow. In the age of LLM agents, shouldn't we expect them to handle this for you? Gradio now includes a "File Upload" MCP server that agents can use to upload files directly to your Gradio application. If any tools in…

Introducing AutoRound: Intel’s Advanced Quantization for LLMs and VLMs

What is AutoRound? AutoRound is a weight-only post-training quantization (PTQ) method developed by Intel. It uses signed gradient descent to jointly optimize weight rounding and clipping ranges, enabling accurate low-bit quantization (e.g., INT2 - INT8) with minimal accuracy loss in most scenarios. For example, at INT2, it outperforms popular baselines by up to 2.1x higher in relative accuracy. The image below provides an overview of the core algorithm in AutoRound. For more details, please refer to our paper. Despite its strong performance, AutoRound is fast and lightweight — quantizing a 72B model takes just 37 minutes on an A100 GPU under light mode. It also supports mixed-bit tuning, lm-head quantization, GPTQ/AWQ/GGUF format exporting, and flexible tuning recipes. Key Advantages Superior Accuracy at Low Bit Widths AutoRound delivers highly promising results, particularly in low-bit quantization scenarios. Evaluations across a variety of…

17 Reasons Why Gradio Isn't Just Another UI Library

17 Reasons Why Gradio Isn't Just Another UI Library Introduction "Oh, Gradio? That's a Python library for building UIs, right?" We hear this a lot, and while Gradio does let you create interactive UIs with minimal Python code, calling Gradio a "UI library" misses the bigger picture! Gradio is more than a UI library—it's a framework for interacting with machine learning models through both UIs and APIs, providing strong guarantees around performance, security, and responsiveness. In this article, we'll introduce features that are unique to Gradio and explain how they are essential for building powerful AI applications. We'll share links to Gradio's official documentation and release notes, so you can explore further if you're curious. 1. Universal API Access All Gradio apps are also APIs! When you build a Gradio app, you can also use Gradio's robust client libraries for…

A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related content

A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related content Launching next week on T-Mobile's network, the cell plan takes a nuclear approach to online safety. A new US-wide cell phone network marketed to Christians is set to launch next week. It blocks porn, which experts in network security say marks the first time a US cell plan has used network-level blocking for such content that can’t be turned off even by adult account owners. It’s also rolling out a filter on sexual content aimed at blocking material related to gender and trans issues, which will be optional but turned on by default across all plans. The network, which is currently being tested ahead of its May 5 launch date, will be run by Radiant Mobile, a newly launched mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). These operators…

The Download: introducing the Nature issue

The Download: introducing the Nature issue Plus: Trump signaled he’s open to reversing the Anthropic ban. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Nature issue When we talk about “nature,” we usually mean something untouched by humans. But little of that world exists today. From microplastics in rainforest wildlife to artificial light in the Arctic Ocean, human influence now reaches every corner of Earth. In this context, what even is nature? And should we employ technology to try to make the world more “natural”? In our new Nature issue, MIT Technology Review grapples with these questions. We investigate birds that can’t sing, wolves that aren’t wolves, and grass that isn’t grass. We look for the meaning of life under Arctic ice,…

The Download: introducing the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

The Download: introducing the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now Plus: An unauthorized group has reportedly accessed Anthropic’s Mythos. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Introducing: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now What actually matters in AI right now? It’s getting harder to tell amid the constant launches, hype, and warnings. To cut through the noise, MIT Technology Review’s reporters and editors have distilled years of analysis into a new essential guide: the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now. The list builds on our annual 10 Breakthrough Technologies, but takes a wider view of the ideas, topics, and research shaping AI, spotlighting the trends and breakthroughs shaping the world. We’ll be unpacking one item from the…

Introducing Chat Hub

If you’ve been following the rise of AI in the workplace, you know the challenge: AI usage is becoming commonplace, but it’s often unmanaged. Chat Hub changes that by providing a single, unified interface for your organization to direct users for all AI-related tasks and processes, bringing the power of n8n’s AI agents to every team member securely and simply. The Problem: The Rise of "Shadow AI" As AI capability and understanding grows, users across organizations are eager to use AI-powered tools to speed up their work. However, this can often lead to "Shadow AI": unmanaged and unmetered usage that causes headaches for IT and operations teams. This can include: - Inconsistency: Staff might regularly use their own AI-powered tools and models without consideration for their organization’s standards. - Security Risks: Without a centralized system, data integrity and security can…

Introducing Trusted Contact in ChatGPT

Introducing Trusted Contact in ChatGPT Connecting you to someone you trust when it matters most. People use ChatGPT to learn, explore ideas, solve problems, and reflect on personal questions. Sometimes those conversations can involve moments when someone may be struggling or looking for support. Our goal is to design systems that respond thoughtfully to sensitive conversations and encourage people to connect with real-world help when needed. Today we are starting to roll out Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature in ChatGPT that allows adults to nominate someone they trust, such as a friend, family member, or caregiver, who may be notified if our automated systems and trained reviewers detect the enrolled person may have discussed harming themselves in a way that indicates a serious safety concern. Trusted Contact is designed to offer another layer of support alongside the localized helplines…

New ways to buy ChatGPT ads

New ways to buy ChatGPT ads We’re expanding ChatGPT ads with new ways for advertisers to buy and manage campaigns—built around our ads principles. We’re taking the next step in our ChatGPT ads pilot by making it easier for businesses to participate while keeping the experience useful, private, and clearly separate from ChatGPT’s answers. Advertisers can now create ChatGPT ads through partners or a new beta self-serve Ads Manager. We’re also introducing cost-per-click (CPC) bidding and expanded measurement tools, giving businesses more flexible ways to buy, manage, and understand campaign performance without sharing conversations or personal details with advertisers. These updates make it easier for more businesses to participate and lay the groundwork for a broader ads platform built around how people use ChatGPT. We initially worked directly with a small group of advertisers to launch campaigns in ChatGPT. As…

Introducing Advanced Account Security

Introducing Advanced Account Security An advanced set of protections against unauthorized access to ChatGPT accounts, Codex, and the sensitive information they can contain. Today, we’re introducing Advanced Account Security, a new opt-in setting for ChatGPT accounts, designed for people at increased risk of digital attacks, as well as for those who want the strongest account protections available. It brings together a set of heightened security measures that help safeguard against account takeover while making those protections easier to activate in one place. Once enrolled, Advanced Account Security protects users in Codex as well. People are turning to AI for deeply personal questions and increasingly high-stakes work. Over time, a ChatGPT account can hold sensitive personal and professional context, and sit at the center of connected tools and workflows. For some people, like journalists, elected officials, political dissidents, researchers, and those…

The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership

The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership Amended agreement provides long-term clarity. The rapid pace of innovation requires us to continue to evolve our partnership to benefit our customers and both companies. Today, we are announcing an amended agreement to simplify our partnership and the way we work together, grounded in flexibility, certainty, and a focus on delivering the benefits of AI broadly. The greater predictability in the amended agreement strengthens our joint ability to build and operate AI platforms at scale while providing both companies the flexibility to pursue new opportunities. The agreement spells out: - Microsoft remains OpenAI’s primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities. OpenAI can now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider. - Microsoft will continue…

Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT

Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT Codex-powered agents for teams. Today, we’re introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT. Teams can now create shared agents that handle complex tasks and long-running workflows, all while operating within the permissions and controls set by their organization. Workspace agents are an evolution of GPTs. Powered by Codex, they can take on many of the tasks people already do at work—from preparing reports, to writing code, to responding to messages. They run in the cloud, so they can keep working even when you’re not. They’re also designed to be shared within an organization, so teams can build an agent once, use it together in ChatGPT or Slack, and improve it over time. AI has already helped people work faster on their own, but many of the most important workflows inside an organization depend on shared context, handoffs,…

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0

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Our response to the Axios developer tool compromise

Our response to the Axios developer tool compromise We recently identified a security issue involving a third-party developer tool, Axios, that was part of a widely reported, broader industry incident(opens in a new window). Out of an abundance of caution we are taking steps to protect the process that certifies our macOS applications are legitimate OpenAI apps. We found no evidence that OpenAI user data was accessed, that our systems or intellectual property was compromised, or that our software was altered. We are updating our security certificates, which will require all macOS users to update their OpenAI apps to the latest versions. This helps prevent any risk—however unlikely—of someone attempting to distribute a fake app that appears to be from OpenAI. You can update safely through an in-app update or at the official links below: The security and privacy of…

Introducing the Child Safety Blueprint

Introducing the Child Safety Blueprint A framework for combatting and preventing AI-enabled Child Sexual Exploitation Child sexual exploitation is one of the most urgent challenges of the digital age. AI is rapidly changing both how these harms emerge across the industry and how they can be addressed at scale. At OpenAI, we have built and continue to strengthen safeguards to prevent misuse of our systems, and we work closely with partners like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and law enforcement to improve detection and reporting. This work has helped surface where stronger, shared standards are needed across the industry. Today, we’re introducing a policy blueprint that outlines a practical path forward for strengthening U.S. child protection frameworks in the age of AI. This blueprint reflects and incorporates feedback from several leading organizations and experts across the…

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

OpenAI Japan announces Japan Teen Safety Blueprint to put teen safety first Strengthening age-appropriate protections, parental support, and well-being-centered design in Japan. OpenAI Japan today announced the Japan Teen Safety Blueprint, a new framework to help teens use generative AI safely and with confidence. In Japan, where a growing number of teens are already using generative AI for learning, creativity, and everyday tasks, this work is especially important. As the first generation grows up alongside AI, it is critical to ensure that these technologies are designed with their safety and well-being in mind from the outset. Generative AI is already supporting people across a wide range of activities from learning and creative expression to everyday tasks that help individuals thrive at school, at work, and in their personal lives. At a broader level, it also has the potential to accelerate…

Introducing the Adoption news channel

Introducing the Adoption news channel Practical insights and frameworks to turn AI progress into business advantage A new phase of enterprise AI is underway. For the past two years, the story was largely about the pace of the technology: new models, new capabilities, new breakthroughs and demonstrations of what AI could do. That phase mattered. But it also created an information environment dominated by technical updates, product news, and benchmark performances which are not the bottleneck to adoption and value anymore. The defining question for leaders is no longer what AI can do but how to turn that capability into concrete operational change: better decisions, faster workflows, stronger execution, new forms of leverage, and ultimately new business models. That shift calls for a different kind of channel. That is why we are launching the Adoption channel, a new OpenAI business…

Our agreement with the Department of War

Our agreement with the Department of War Update on March 2, 2026 Throughout our discussions, the Department made clear it shares our commitment to ensuring our tools will not be used for domestic surveillance. To make our principles as clear as possible, we worked together to add additional language to our agreement. This language makes explicit that our tools will not be used to conduct domestic surveillance of U.S. persons, including through the procurement or use of commercially acquired personal or identifiable information. The Department also affirmed that our services will not be used by Department of War intelligence agencies like the NSA. Any services to those agencies would require a new agreement. The new language reads: - Consistent with applicable laws, including the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, National Security Act of 1947, FISA Act of 1978,…

An update on our mental health-related work

An update on our mental health-related work Each week, more than 900 million people use ChatGPT to improve their daily lives through uses such as learning new skills or navigating complex healthcare systems. Our ongoing safety work continues to play an important role in delivering these benefits to everyday people, as well as supporting scientific research and discovery. Since introducing parental controls in September 2025, we’ve seen encouraging engagement from families and will continue building on these protections. Working closely with experts from our Council on Well-Being and AI and our Global Physicians Network, we will also soon be introducing a trusted contact feature, which will allow adult users to designate someone to receive notifications when they may need additional support. As a reminder, parents also receive safety notifications about their teens’ use of ChatGPT through parental controls. We’ll share…

Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT

As AI systems take on more complex tasks—especially those that involve the web and connected apps—the security stakes change. One emerging risk has become especially important: prompt injection. In these attacks, a third party attempts to mislead a conversational AI system into following malicious instructions or revealing sensitive information. Today, we’re introducing two new protections designed to help users and organizations mitigate prompt injection attacks, with clearer visibility into risk and stronger controls: - Lockdown Mode in ChatGPT, an advanced, optional security setting for higher-risk users - “Elevated Risk” labels for certain capabilities in ChatGPT, ChatGPT Atlas, and Codex that may introduce additional risk These additions build on our existing protections across the model, product, and system levels. This includes sandboxing, protections against URL-based data exfiltration, monitoring and enforcement, and enterprise controls like role-based access and audit logs. Lockdown Mode…

Introducing Trusted Access for Cyber

GPT‑5.3‑Codex is our most cyber-capable frontier reasoning model to date. Cybersecurity is one of the clearest places where that progress can both meaningfully strengthen the broader ecosystem and introduce new risks. We’ve moved from models that can auto-complete a few lines in a code editor, to models that can work autonomously for hours or even days to accomplish complex tasks. These capabilities can dramatically strengthen cyber defense by accelerating vulnerability discovery and remediation. To unlock the full defensive potential of these capabilities while reducing the risk of misuse, we are piloting Trusted Access for Cyber: an identity and trust-based framework designed to help ensure enhanced cyber capabilities are being placed in the right hands. This reflects our broader approach to responsibly deploying highly capable models. In addition, we are committing $10 million in API credits to accelerate cyber defense. It…

Introducing OpenAI Frontier

AI has let teams take on things they used to talk about but never execute. In fact, 75% of enterprise workers say AI helped them do tasks they couldn’t do before. We’re hearing this from every department, not just technical teams. The way work gets done has changed, and enterprises are starting to feel it in big ways. We’ve seen this in action with over 1 million businesses over the past few years. At a major manufacturer, agents reduced production optimization work from six weeks to one day. A global investment company deployed agents end-to-end across the sales process to open up over 90% more time for salespeople to spend with customers. And, at a large energy producer, agents helped increase output by up to 5%, which adds over a billion in additional revenue. This is happening for AI leaders…

Introducing the Codex app

March 4, 2026 update: The Codex app is now available on Windows. Today, we’re introducing the Codex app for macOS—a powerful new interface designed to effortlessly manage multiple agents at once, run work in parallel, and collaborate with agents over long-running tasks. We're also excited to show more people what's now possible with Codex. For a limited time we're including Codex with ChatGPT Free and Go, and we're doubling the rate limits on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans. Those higher limits apply everywhere you use Codex—in the app, from the CLI, in your IDE, and in the cloud. The Codex app changes how software gets built and who can build it—from pairing with a single coding agent on targeted edits to supervising coordinated teams of agents across the full lifecycle of designing, building, shipping, and maintaining software. Since…

Introducing Edu for Countries

Introducing OpenAI’s Education for Countries Helping countries build future ready education systems and workforces with AI The history of technology suggests that the biggest economic gains come not from invention alone, but from turning new capabilities into scaled, everyday use. But even as AI capabilities have improved, we see a widening “capability overhang,” defined as the gap between what AI tools can do and how people are using them. Education systems are a critical route through which this gap is closed. Studies(opens in a new window) project that by 2030 nearly 40% of the core skills workers rely on today will change, driven largely by AI. By embedding AI tools, training, and research into the core infrastructure of schools and universities, education systems can evolve alongside these shifts and better prepare students to thrive in a world with AI. It…

OpenAI for Healthcare

Introducing OpenAI for Healthcare Secure AI products to help healthcare organizations scale high-quality care, reduce admin work for teams, and power custom clinical solutions—while protecting health data. We’re introducing OpenAI for Healthcare, a set of products designed to help healthcare organizations deliver more consistent, high-quality care for patients—while supporting their HIPAA compliance requirements. This includes ChatGPT for Healthcare, available starting today and already rolling out to leading institutions like AdventHealth, Baylor Scott & White Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, HCA Healthcare, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). It also includes the OpenAI API, which powers much of today’s healthcare ecosystem. Thousands of organizations have configured it to support HIPAA-compliant use—such as Abridge, Ambience, and EliseAI. Healthcare is under unprecedented strain. Demand is rising, clinicians are overwhelmed by administrative…

Introducing ChatGPT Health

Introducing ChatGPT Health A dedicated experience in ChatGPT designed for health and wellness. We’re introducing ChatGPT Health, a dedicated experience that securely brings your health information and ChatGPT’s intelligence together, to help you feel more informed, prepared, and confident navigating your health. Health is already one of the most common ways people use ChatGPT, with hundreds of millions of people asking health and wellness questions each week. ChatGPT Health builds on the strong privacy, security, and data controls across ChatGPT with additional, layered protections designed specifically for health— including purpose-built encryption and isolation to keep health conversations protected and compartmentalized. You can securely connect medical records and wellness apps to ground conversations in your own health information, so responses are more relevant and useful to you. Designed in close collaboration with physicians, ChatGPT Health helps people take a more active…

Announcing OpenAI Grove Cohort 2

Apply to OpenAI Grove A program for individuals early in their company building journey. Update on January 12, 2026: Applications are now closed. Today, we’re opening the applications for the next cohort of OpenAI Grove, a program for technical talent at the very start of their company-building journey. The Grove is not a startup accelerator or traditional program: it offers pre-idea individuals deeply curious about building in AI a dense talent network, co-building with OpenAI researchers, and resources designed to accelerate your journey. As participants explore early concepts, they will receive counsel from the OpenAI team and community with peers in OpenAI Grove. This program is the starting point of a long-term network. It will begin with five weeks of content and programming hosted in the OpenAI San Francisco HQ, including in-person workshops, weekly office hours, and mentoring from OpenAI…

Introducing OpenAI Academy for News Organizations

Introducing OpenAI Academy for News Organizations Working with the American Journalism Project and The Lenfest Institute to launch a new learning hub for journalists and publishers using AI. At OpenAI, we believe journalism is essential to a healthy democracy. People depend on reliable local and national reporting to understand their communities and the world around them, and we’re committed to being a strong partner to news organizations—supporting their work and convening the right people to move the industry forward. We’re building on our partnership with the American Journalism Project(opens in a new window) and The Lenfest Institute for Journalism(opens in a new window) to launch OpenAI Academy for News Organizations(opens in a new window), a new learning hub for journalists, editors, and publishers using AI. We shared this initiative yesterday at the AI and Journalism Summit(opens in a new window),…

A free version of ChatGPT built for teachers

A free version of ChatGPT built for teachers A secure ChatGPT workspace that supports teachers in their everyday work so they can focus on what matters most—plus admin controls for school and district leaders. Free for verified U.S. K–12 educators through June 2027. Today we’re introducing ChatGPT for Teachers and making it free through June 2027. Of the 800 million people who use ChatGPT each week, teachers are some of the earliest and most active adopters. Three in five (opens in a new window)already use an AI tool, and those that use it weekly report saving hours each week—giving them more time to spend with students. They also play a critical role in helping students and families understand how AI can support learning. ChatGPT for Teachers is built for both educators and school leaders. Teachers get a secure workspace to…

Introducing OpenAI for Ireland

Introducing OpenAI for Ireland Today we are launching ‘OpenAI for Ireland’—a new initiative from OpenAI working with the Irish Government, Dogpatch Labs and Patch to help Irish SMEs and founders seize the opportunity of AI to grow, innovate and build for the future. Jason Kwon, Chief Strategy Officer at OpenAI, announced the initiative in Dublin alongside Jack Chambers T.D., Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, Patrick Walsh, CEO of Dogpatch Labs and Tom McCarthy, Chair and Co-Founder of Patch. Ireland has a long history of global technology leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship and the country has now embraced AI as the next big technological leap. Over one million people in Ireland—from college students to entrepreneurs—are using ChatGPT every week to learn, get help with everyday tasks, and to scale traditional and new AI powered businesses. Ireland is…

Introducing group chats in ChatGPT

Introducing group chats in ChatGPT Collaborate with others, and ChatGPT, in the same conversation. Update on November 20, 2025: Early feedback from the pilot has been positive, so we’re expanding group chats to all logged-in users on ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus and Pro plans globally over the coming days. We will continue refining the experience as more people start using it. Today, we’re beginning to pilot a new experience in a few regions that makes it easy for people to collaborate with each other—and with ChatGPT—in the same conversation. With group chats, you can bring friends, family, or coworkers into a shared space to plan, make decisions, or work through ideas together. Whether you’re organizing a group dinner or drafting an outline with coworkers, ChatGPT can help. Group chats are separate from your private conversations, and your personal ChatGPT memory…

Free ChatGPT for transitioning U.S. servicemembers and veterans

Free ChatGPT for transitioning U.S. servicemembers and veterans Every year, hundreds of thousands of U.S. servicemembers transition from military to civilian life. It’s a big change with lots of promise, but there’s also a lot to figure out: job hunting, evaluating education options, navigating earned benefits, housing, finances, and getting used to a new routine. Nearly half of post-9/11 veterans say their adjustment to civilian life was difficult. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that AI tools benefit all of humanity, and that includes making the transition a little easier for those who have served. Today we’re announcing that U.S. servicemembers and veterans can receive a free year of ChatGPT Plus if they’re within 12 months of retirement or separation. This initiative originated with veterans working at OpenAI who use these tools every day. They know firsthand how ChatGPT can help…

Introducing the Teen Safety Blueprint

Introducing the Teen Safety Blueprint A framework for building AI that protects, empowers, and creates safer experiences for teens. We are introducing the Teen Safety Blueprint(opens in a new window), a roadmap for building AI tools responsibly and a practical starting point for policymakers who are working to set standards for teen use of AI. Young people deserve technology that expands opportunity and protects their well-being. The Blueprint helps define how AI should work for teens, including age-appropriate design, meaningful product safeguards, and ongoing research and evaluation. The decisions made today will shape how teens use and are protected by this technology for years to come. We aren’t waiting for regulation to catch up, we're putting this framework into action across our products. We’re anticipating risks and proactively strengthening protections for young people. In recent months we have strengthened safeguards…

1 million business customers putting AI to work

1 million business customers: the fastest-growing business platform in history Customers such as Amgen, Commonwealth Bank, Booking.com, Cisco, Lowe’s, Morgan Stanley, T-Mobile, Target, and Thermo Fisher Scientific are already on board—with more joining every week. Today, we’re announcing that more than 1 million business customers around the world are directly using OpenAI—the fastest-growing business platform in history. This includes all organizations that actively pay OpenAI for business use—either through ChatGPT for Work, or through direct consumption of our models through our developer platform. We’re proud to work with category leaders in industries like financial services, healthcare, retail, and more, where our technology is making intelligence central to their customer experiences, internal operations, and team-level workflows. Our enterprise momentum is fueled in part by consumer adoption. With more than 800 million weekly users already familiar with ChatGPT, adoption and ROI within…

The next chapter for UK sovereign AI

The next chapter for UK sovereign AI Earlier this year, we signed an MOU with the UK Government to help more British people, businesses and institutions benefit from the potential of AI technology, and to deliver on the goals of the UK AI Action Plan. Together with the Government, we want to drive AI-led growth, accelerate adoption across the private and public sector, and expand the UK’s sovereign AI capabilities so that AI is widely available and served in the UK, for the UK. Today, building on this momentum, we’re announcing a new agreement with the UK Ministry of Justice for civil servants to use and benefit from ChatGPT, and the option of UK data residency for customers using our API Platform, ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu. Many of our leading British customers will gather at the OpenAI Frontiers event…

Introducing ChatGPT Atlas, the browser with ChatGPT built in

Introducing ChatGPT Atlas The browser with ChatGPT built in. Today we’re introducing ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser built with ChatGPT at its core. AI gives us a rare moment to rethink what it means to use the web. Last year, we added search in ChatGPT so you could instantly find timely information from across the internet—and it quickly became one of our most-used features. But your browser is where all of your work, tools, and context come together. A browser built with ChatGPT takes us closer to a true super-assistant that understands your world and helps you achieve your goals. With Atlas, ChatGPT can come with you anywhere across the web—helping you in the window right where you are, understanding what you’re trying to do, and completing tasks for you, all without copying and pasting or leaving the page.…

Accelerating AI adoption in Europe

Accelerating AI adoption in Europe OpenAI and Allied for Startups today announced the release of the Hacktivate AI report(opens in a new window)—a collection of 20 ideas to accelerate broad-based AI adoption in Europe and boost the bloc’s competitiveness. The release comes just days before the European Commission is expected to unveil its Apply AI Strategy, a plan to encourage the real use of AI across business and the public sector. There is already significant demand for OpenAI technology in Europe with EU Member States ranking amongst our top markets globally for subscribers, API developers and business customers. Every day, people, developers, institutions, start-ups and leading enterprises are using OpenAI’s tools—and primarily, our freely available tools—to create economic opportunities for themselves and others throughout the continent, from speeding up the development of life-saving medical treatments with Sanofi(opens in a new…

Introducing Stargate UK

Introducing Stargate UK We’re announcing Stargate UK—an AI infrastructure partnership with NVIDIA and Nscale that strengthens the UK’s sovereign compute capabilities. Stargate UK ensures OpenAI’s world-leading AI models can run on local computing power in the UK, for the UK—particularly for specialist use cases where jurisdiction matters. This will help power the UK’s future economy, boost its global competitiveness and deliver on the country’s national AI Opportunities Action Plan. The initiative marks a major step forward in the US-UK technology partnership and is the latest rollout of OpenAI for Countries to support governments that want to build out their sovereign AI capabilities. It follows the MoU we signed with the UK Government in July 2025 to explore the UK’s infrastructure priorities and accelerate the adoption of AI. Nscale is set to significantly expand its planned UK capacity for Stargate UK…

Introducing upgrades to Codex

Introducing upgrades to Codex Codex just got faster, more reliable, and better at real-time collaboration and tackling tasks independently anywhere you develop—whether via the terminal, IDE, web, or even your phone. Update on September 23, 2025: GPT‑5‑Codex is now available to developers using Codex via API key (in addition to being available to developers using Codex via their ChatGPT subscription). GPT‑5 Codex is available at the same price as GPT‑5, and is available in the Responses API only. The underlying model snapshot will be regularly updated. Check out the Codex developer documentation(opens in a new window) and changelog(opens in a new window) for more details. Today, we’re releasing GPT‑5‑Codex—a version of GPT‑5 further optimized for agentic coding in Codex. GPT‑5‑Codex was trained with a focus on real-world software engineering work; it’s equally proficient at quick, interactive sessions and at independently…

OpenAI and Greek Government launch ‘OpenAI for Greece’

OpenAI and Greek Government launch ‘OpenAI for Greece’ Today we’re launching ‘OpenAI for Greece’—a new partnership between OpenAI, the Government of the Hellenic Republic, the Onassis Foundation, and Endeavor Greece to expand access to high-quality AI tools in secondary education and accelerate innovation across Greece’s start-up ecosystem. AI is a foundational technology for countries with the potential to support learning, fuel innovation, and drive economic growth. In Greece, the number of weekly active ChatGPT users has increased seven-fold over the past year and the Government has already developed a national blueprint(opens in a new window) to help the country seize the opportunity, spanning innovation and entrepreneurship, education and research, and AI integration into public sector services. To help realise this vision, the ‘OpenAI for Greece’ Memorandum of Understanding was signed today at the Hellenic Expo by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis…

Providing ChatGPT to the Entire U.S. Federal Workforce

Providing ChatGPT to the entire U.S. federal workforce First-of-its-kind partnership with General Services Administration will give federal agencies access to ChatGPT Enterprise for $1 for the next year Today, OpenAI for Government is announcing a new partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to launch a transformative initiative. For the next year, ChatGPT Enterprise will be available to the entire federal executive branch workforce at essentially no cost. Participating U.S. federal agencies will be able to use our leading frontier models through ChatGPT Enterprise, for the nominal cost of $1 per agency for the next year. This effort delivers on a core pillar of the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan(opens in a new window) by making powerful AI tools available across the federal government so that workers can spend less time on red tape and paperwork, and more time…

Announcing OpenAI DevDay 2025

OpenAI DevDay is back and bigger than ever We’re hosting our third annual OpenAI DevDay on October 6, 2025 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. From day one, developers have been central to OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity. You’ve used our tools to build first-of-their-kind products, launch startups, accelerate research, and reimagine what software can do. OpenAI DevDay is our way of celebrating and building upon that work—by sharing what’s new, surfacing what’s possible, and spending time with the people building at the frontier of AI. This year, we’re bringing together more than 1,500 developers for our biggest DevDay yet. Speakers will include Sam Altman, Chief Executive Officer, Greg Brockman, President, and many more to come! At OpenAI DevDay, you’ll get an early look at what’s coming next from OpenAI, hear directly from our research, product…

Introducing OpenAI for Government

Introducing OpenAI for Government Today we’re launching OpenAI for Government, a new initiative focused on bringing our most advanced AI tools to public servants across the United States. We're supporting the U.S. government's efforts in adopting best-in-class technology and deploying these tools in service of the public good. Our goal is to unlock AI solutions that enhance the capabilities of government workers, help them cut down on the red tape and paperwork, and let them do more of what they come to work each day to do: serve the American people. OpenAI for Government consolidates our existing efforts to provide our technology to the U.S. government—including previously announced customers and partnerships as well as our ChatGPT Gov product—under one umbrella as we expand this work. Our established collaborations with the U.S. National Labs, the Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, NIH,…

Bringing the magic of AI to Mattel’s iconic brands

Bringing the magic of AI to Mattel’s iconic brands OpenAI is teaming up with Mattel, a leading global toy and family entertainment company known for capturing the imagination of generations, to bring a new dimension of AI-powered innovation and magic to Mattel’s iconic brands. Mattel has more than 80 years of experience introducing products and experiences that delight and captivate fans in a safe, thoughtful way. By tapping into OpenAI’s AI capabilities, Mattel aims to reimagine how fans can experience and interact with its cherished brands, with careful consideration to ensure positive, enriching experiences. “Each of our products and experiences is designed to inspire fans, entertain audiences, and enrich lives through play. AI has the power to expand on that mission and broaden the reach of our brands in new and exciting ways,” said Josh Silverman, chief franchise officer of…

Creating websites in minutes with AI Website Builder

Wix helps anyone create fully functional websites in minutes with GPT‑4o Since its founding, Wix(opens in a new window) has aimed to simplify website creation for individuals and businesses. In 2016, the company introduced Wix ADI (Artificial Design Intelligence), one of the first AI-driven solutions for generating a site’s UI. Over the years, Wix has expanded its AI capabilities, integrating OpenAI models to enhance content generation, image processing, and customer support. By 2023, Wix launched AI text creator, which allowed users to generate website text, including headlines, taglines, and descriptions, by answering just a few prompts. This paved the way for Wix’s latest innovation: an AI website builder, powered by ChatGPT, that lets users create an entire website just by chatting with AI. Today, Wix offers a fully-fledged AI website builder(opens in a new window) that makes creating a site…

Introducing Codex

Introducing Codex A cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel, powered by codex-1. Available to ChatGPT Pro, Business, and Enterprise users today, and Plus users soon. Update on June 3, 2025: Codex is now available to ChatGPT Plus users. We’re also enabling users to provide Codex with internet access during task execution. Please refer to the changelog(opens in a new window) and docs(opens in a new window) for more details. Today we’re launching a research preview of Codex: a cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel. Codex can perform tasks for you such as writing features, answering questions about your codebase, fixing bugs, and proposing pull requests for review; each task runs in its own cloud sandbox environment, preloaded with your repository. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of…

Addendum to o3 and o4-mini system card: Codex

Addendum to OpenAI o3 and o4-mini system card: Codex Codex is a cloud-based coding agent. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of OpenAI o3 optimized for software engineering. codex-1 was trained using reinforcement learning on real-world coding tasks in a variety of environments to generate code that closely mirrors human style and PR preferences, adheres precisely to instructions, and iteratively runs tests until passing results are achieved. Users can ask Codex to perform coding tasks or to answer questions about a codebase. Each agent runs in its own cloud container with no internet access. The container is preloaded with the user’s code and a development environment defined by the user, including any dependencies, configuration, or tooling they specify. After setup, internet access is disabled and the model trajectory begins. Within that environment, Codex can read and edit files, as…

Introducing data residency in Asia

Introducing data residency in Asia Update on November 25, 2025 We’ve expanded our at-rest data residency options globally. For details on availability across additional regions, see our latest update. We’re announcing data residency in Japan, India, Singapore, and South Korea for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the API Platform. This helps organizations operating in these countries meet local data sovereignty requirements when using OpenAI products in their businesses and building new solutions with AI. Data residency builds on OpenAI’s existing enterprise-grade data privacy, security, and compliance features. With data residency, eligible API customers and new ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu customers can choose to have customer content stored at rest in supported countries. ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu New ChatGPT workspaces can be set up with data residency in supported countries, allowing customer content to be stored at rest in the region.…

Introducing OpenAI for Countries

Introducing OpenAI for Countries A new initiative to support countries around the world that want to build on democratic AI rails. Our Stargate project, an unprecedented investment in America’s AI infrastructure announced in January with President Trump and our partners Oracle and SoftBank, is now underway with our first supercomputing campus in Abilene, Texas, and more sites to come. We’ve heard from many countries asking for help in building out similar AI infrastructure—that they want their own Stargates and similar projects. It’s clear to everyone now that this kind of infrastructure is going to be the backbone of future economic growth and national development. Technological innovation has always driven growth by helping people do more than they otherwise could—AI will scale human ingenuity itself and drive more prosperity by scaling our freedoms to learn, think, create and produce all at…

Introducing AI stories: daily benefits shine a light on bigger opportunities

Sam Altman has written that we are entering the Intelligence Age(opens in a new window), a time when AI will help people become dramatically more capable. The biggest problems of today—across science, medicine, education, national defense—will no longer seem intractable, but will in fact be solvable. New horizons of possibility and prosperity will open up. It won’t happen all at once, but the real news is that it’s happening already. Millions of Americans are already using tools like ChatGPT (powered by OpenAI’s most advanced technology) to help solve their problems, and are seeing real benefits in their daily lives. They share their stories with us every day. Some stories are of small, personal wins; some are consequential on a much larger scale. Whether it’s a cancer patient using AI to advocate for herself during treatment, a scientist making breakthrough discoveries,…

Evolving OpenAI’s structure

Evolving OpenAI’s structure The OpenAI Board has an updated plan for evolving OpenAI’s structure. - OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit, and is today overseen and controlled by that nonprofit. Going forward, it will continue to be overseen and controlled by that nonprofit. - Our for-profit LLC, which has been under the nonprofit since 2019, will transition to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC)–a purpose-driven company structure that has to consider the interests of both shareholders and the mission. - The nonprofit will control and also be a large shareholder of the PBC, giving the nonprofit better resources to support many benefits. - Our mission remains the same, and the PBC will have the same mission. We made the decision for the nonprofit to retain control of OpenAI after hearing from civic leaders and engaging in constructive dialogue with the offices…

Introducing our new search API

Introducing our new search API We’ve added a new search API to help you find the best models. This API is currently in beta, but it’s already available to all users in our TypeScript and Python SDKs, and our MCP servers. Here’s an example of how to use it with cURL: curl -s \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $REPLICATE_API_TOKEN" \ "https://api.replicate.com/v1/search?query=lip+sync" Here’s a video of the search API in action using our MCP server with Claude Desktop: More metadata The new search API returns results for models, collections, and documentation pages that match your query. { query: "lip sync", models: [ {model: { url, run_count, etc }, metadata: { tags, score, etc }}, {model: { url, run_count, etc }, metadata: { tags, score, etc }}, {model: { url, run_count, etc }, metadata: { tags, score, etc }}, ], collections: [ {name,…

datasette 1.0a29

12th May 2026 - New TokenRestrictions.abbreviated(datasette) utility method for creating"_r" dictionaries. #2695- Table headers and column options are now visible even if a table contains zero rows. #2701 - Fixed bug with display of column actions dialog on Mobile Safari. #2708 - Fixed bug where tests could crash with a segfault due to a race condition between Datasette.close() andDatasette.close() . #2709 That segfault bug was gnarly. I added a mechanism to Datasette recently that would automatically close connections at the end of each test, but it turned out that introduced a race condition where an in-flight query could sometimes be executing in a thread against a connection while it was being closed. I ended up solving that by having Codex CLI (with GPT-5.5 xhigh) create a minimal Dockerfile that recreated the bug. Recent articles - Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data…

datasette-referrer-policy 0.1

5th May 2026 The OpenStreetMap tiles on the Datasette global-power-plants demo weren't displaying correctly. This turned out to be caused by two bugs. The first is that the CAPTCHA I added to that site a few weeks ago was triggering for the .json fetch requests used by the map plugin, and since those weren't HTML the user was not being asked to solve them. Here's the fix. The second was that OpenStreetMap quite reasonably block tile requests from sites that use a Referrer-Policy: no-referrer header. Datasette does this by default, and I didn't want to change that default on people without warning - so I had Codex + GPT-5.5 build me a new plugin to help set that header to another value. Recent articles - LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor - 29th April 2026 - Tracking the history…

datasette-llm 0.1a7

5th May 2026 - Mechanism for configuring default options for specific models. Part of Datasette's evolving support mechanism for plugins that use LLMs. It's now possible to configure a model with default options, e.g. to say all enrichment operations should use a specific model with temperature set to 0.5. Recent articles - LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor - 29th April 2026 - Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause - 27th April 2026 - DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price - 24th April 2026

llm-echo 0.5a0

5th May 2026 - New -o thinking 1 option to help test against LLM 0.32a0 and higher. This plugin provides a fake model called "echo" for LLM which doesn't run an LLM at all - it's useful for writing automated tests. You can now do this: uvx --with llm==0.32a1 --with llm-echo==0.5a0 llm -m echo hi -o thinking 1 This will fake a reasoning block to standard error before returning JSON echoing the prompt. Recent articles - LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor - 29th April 2026 - Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause - 27th April 2026 - DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price - 24th April 2026

llm 0.32a0

29th April 2026 Recent articles - LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor - 29th April 2026 - Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause - 27th April 2026 - DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price - 24th April 2026

llm 0.32a1

29th April 2026 - Fixed a bug in 0.32a0 where tool-calling conversations were not correctly reinflated from SQLite. #1426 Recent articles - LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor - 29th April 2026 - Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause - 27th April 2026 - DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price - 24th April 2026

russellromney/honker

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llm-openrouter 0.6

20th April 2026 llm openrouter refresh command for refreshing the list of available models without waiting for the cache to expire. I added this feature so I could try Kimi 2.6 on OpenRouter as soon as it became available there. Here's its pelican - this time as an HTML page because Kimi chose to include an HTML and JavaScript UI to control the animation. Transcript here. Recent articles - DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price - 24th April 2026 - Extract PDF text in your browser with LiteParse for the web - 23rd April 2026 - A pelican for GPT-5.5 via the semi-official Codex backdoor API - 23rd April 2026

datasette 1.0a28

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