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Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety redlines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified environments.

Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.

OpenAI shares updates on its mental health safety work, including parental controls, trusted contacts, improved distress detection, and recent litigation developments.

OpenAI and Figma launch a new Codex integration that connects code and design, enabling teams to move between implementation and the Figma canvas to iterate and ship faster.

OpenAI appoints Arvind KC as Chief People Officer to help scale the company, strengthen its culture, and lead how work evolves in the age of AI.

SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.

OpenAI commits $7.5M to The Alignment Project to fund independent AI alignment research, strengthening global efforts to address AGI safety and security risks.

Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfiltration.

A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

OpenAI for Government announces the deployment of a custom ChatGPT on GenAI.mil, bringing secure, safety-forward AI to U.S. defense teams.

Korea privacy policy

An autonomous lab combining OpenAI’s GPT-5 with Ginkgo Bioworks’ cloud automation cut cell-free protein synthesis costs by 40% through closed-loop experimentation.

By focusing on people, not pilots, the Bundesliga club is scaling efficiency, creativity, and knowledge—without losing its football identity.

Taisei Corporation uses ChatGPT Enterprise to support HR-led talent development and scale generative AI across its global construction business.

OpenAI launches the EU Economic Blueprint 2.0 with new data, partnerships, and initiatives to accelerate AI adoption, skills, and growth across Europe.

Apply for the EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant, a €500,000 program funding NGOs and researchers advancing youth safety and wellbeing in the age of AI.

PVH Corp., parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, is adopting ChatGPT Enterprise to bring AI into fashion design, supply chain, and consumer engagement.

An inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation.

A data-driven report on how workers across industries use ChatGPT—covering adoption trends, top tasks, departmental patterns, and the future of AI at work.

Discover how Higgsfield gives creators cinematic, social-first video output from simple inputs using OpenAI GPT-4.1, GPT-5, and Sora 2.

Our latest report reveals stark differences in advanced AI adoption across countries and outlines new initiatives to help nations capture productivity gains from AI.

Stargate Community plans detail a community-first approach to AI infrastructure, using locally tailored plans shaped by community input, energy needs, and workforce priorities.

ChatGPT is rolling out age prediction to estimate if accounts are under or over 18, applying safeguards for teens and refining accuracy over time.