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OpenAI says its latest model offers increased capabilities across a broad variety of categories.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 model codenamed 'Spud' per Axios reporting.

OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer." OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 "excels" at tasks like writing and debugging code, doing research online, making spreadsheets and documents, and doing that work across different tools. "Instead of carefully managing every step, you can give GPT-5.5 a messy, multi-part task and trust it to plan, use tools, check its work, navigate through ambiguity, and keep going," ...

Plants from OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Microsoft could emit more than 129M tons annually.

Reddit anecdote claims Chinese workers at OpenAI contractor training AI models that may displace them; unverified sourcing and secondhand reporting.

Reddit user praise for OpenAI's Image 2.0 capability; no substantive technical details or announcement provided.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, advancing capability in coding, research, and data analysis with improved speed and performance.

User reports Claude Opus 4.7 (April 17 launch) shows degraded code editing behavior, prompting return to OpenAI Codex subscription.

OpenAI Codex configuration guide covering personalization, detail levels, and permissions settings.

Overview of OpenAI Codex as task automation platform enabling tool integration and document/dashboard generation.

OpenAI publishes use cases for ChatGPT Work covering task automation, document generation, and multi-tool workflows.

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OpenAI codex repo models.json updated removing 'latest frontier model' designation from version 5.4, suggesting imminent new model release.

Rumor of forthcoming OpenAI product launch without concrete details or timeline.

OpenAI is giving users of its Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans access to cloud-based "workspace" agents available in ChatGPT that can perform business tasks. In its blog post, OpenAI gives examples of agents like one that finds product feedback on the web and sends a report in Slack and a sales agent that can draft follow-up emails in Gmail. These new agents follow increasing interest in agents across the AI landscape, especially after OpenClaw - the AI agent formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot that touts itself as the "AI that actually does things" - went viral. OpenClaw foun...

OpenAI offers free ChatGPT access to verified U.S. clinicians for care, documentation, and research use.

Infosys said the integration will be used to help its clients modernize software development, automate workflows and deploy AI systems, initially focusing software engineering, legacy modernization, and DevOps.

At one point people thought of you as better than OpenAI and Google. We know AI companies are losing money. \- Just say, "We don't release Mythos because it'd be too expensive." \- Just say "We're going to increase the prices of Pro and Max because we're running out of money" ... all this under-the-radar marketing firm BS just means that you've decided to hemorrhage social capital as well as financial capital. Why would you want to do this?

OpenAI releases workspace agents for ChatGPT to automate workflows and integrate enterprise tools with cloud-based execution.

OpenAI optimizes agentic workflows via WebSockets and connection-scoped caching in Responses API, reducing latency and API overhead.

OpenAI launches GPT-Image-2; Cursor secures $10B contract with xAI and $60B acquisition option.

OpenAI releases open-weight model for detecting and redacting PII in text with state-of-the-art accuracy.

With an IPO looming for Elon Musk's SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an odd arrangement to either acquire the automated programming platform Cursor for $60 billion or pay a fee of $10 billion. Buying this startup that's focused on AI coding could help xAI's tools compete with market leader Anthropic, as well as the other competitors. A report by The Information this week said Sergey Brin has directed Google's "strike team" to help its agentic AI tools catch up, while Sam Altman reportedly declared a "code red" at OpenAI last year before shutting down Sora to f...

When ChatGPT launched as an experimental prototype in late 2022, OpenAI’s chatbot became an everyday everything app for hundreds of millions of people. LLMs like ChatGPT were the new future: The entire tech industry was consumed by the inferno, with companies racing to spin up rival products. The ashes of the old tech world still…

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0; Willison benchmarks improvement via Where's Waldo-style prompt testing against predecessor.

Can ChatGPT be blamed for a mass shooting? Florida is investigating.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0, improved image generation model showing enhanced reasoning and creative color application.

An image generated by ChatGPT Images 2.0. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is rolling out the latest version of its AI-powered image generator with new "thinking capabilities," allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt. In a blog post, OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 can now create more "sophisticated" images, with improvements to its ability to follow instructions, preserve details of your choosing, and generate text. It's powered by OpenAI's new GPT Image 2 model, with new thinking capabilities available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscrib...

ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.

OpenAI teases Image V2 model ahead of public release.