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At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a super app, in-house reasoning models, a cybersecurity tool, and OpenClaw-esque AI agents. All this news added up to a clear message: Microsoft is positioned to be one of the biggest players in AI, and it's finally acting like it. For years, Microsoft's AI business leaned hard on its early and exclusive partnership with OpenAI. But the drama-filled marriage slowly devolved into a situationship, and the pair effectively separated in late April (though Microsoft is still...

OpenAI outlines its public policy agenda for AI, including safety, youth protection, workforce transition, and global standards to ensure AI benefits society.

OpenAI outlines a blueprint for U.S. governance of frontier AI, proposing a federal framework for safety, resilience, and national security.

Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new "flagship" model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year - before then, it had relied on OpenAI's models. The two companies recently renegotiated their deal to loosen ties. According to Microsoft, MAI-Thinking-1 is a "medium-sized model" that "matches leading models" on "key" software engineering benchmarks. Microsoft says the company "trained it from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party ...

OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex, meant to expand the agentic tool’s uses in the workplace. Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being used for knowledge work, finding its uses go […]

Travelers built an AI-powered Claim Assistant with OpenAI to guide customers through filing claims, provide 24/7 support, and scale operations during peak demand.

We present BaltiVoice, a 16.8-hour read-speech corpus for Balti (ISO 639-3: bft), a Tibetic language spoken in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, with no prior publicly available ASR resources. The corpus contains 10,060 validated utterances in native Nastaliq script, derived from Mozilla Common Voice recordings. We fine-tune OpenAI Whisper-small on this corpus and report a Word Error Rate (WER) of 30.07% on a held-out validation set of 538 utterances, down from a measured zero-shot baseline of 182.18% for Whisper-small on Balti. The dataset, fine-tuned model, and a live transcription demo are publi...

OpenAI promotes Codex for building lightweight websites and applications.

OpenAI calls for global action on youth AI safety through a dedicated AI Safety Institute

The lawsuit partially revolves around a shooting at Florida State University last year, and ChatGPT's alleged role in the incident.

Altman has an "utter disregard" for human lives, Florida AG says.

After months of speculation about whether OpenAI or Anthropic would be first in their race to IPO, Anthropic on Monday reached a key milestone: filing to kick off the process with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing sets the stage for what's sure to be a massive IPO. As of its fundraise last week, Anthropic is being called the world's most valuable startup, with a post-money valuation of $965 billion. That tops the $852 billion post-money valuation of OpenAI, which is its biggest rival. Anthropic chose to submit its draft registration statement to the SEC confidentially, a...

OpenAI breaks ground on a 1GW data center project in Michigan as part of Stargate, building AI infrastructure to expand access, create jobs, and support communities.

I tried to explain OpenAI’s solution more clearly than OpenAI did.

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already use. Customers can get started with OpenAI on AWS and move faster from evaluation to production.

Boston Children’s Hospital uses OpenAI technology to improve patient care, reduce operational burden, and help diagnose more than 40 rare disease cases.

OpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense, expanding trusted access to GPT-Rosalind for vetted developers and U.S. government partners advancing biodefense, public health, and pandemic preparedness through frontier AI.

OpenAI shares guidance on third-party AI evaluations, covering how to assess model capabilities, safeguards, and validity for frontier systems.

Here’s why Anthropic and OpenAI are on board with Illinois safety testing.

OpenAI documents production insights from real-time voice AI, emphasizing timing, interruption handling, and conversational recovery over raw response quality.

MUFG uses ChatGPT Enterprise to build an AI-native organization, improve workflows, and deliver new AI-powered financial services at scale.

Explore OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework and how our AI safety, security, and risk practices align with emerging EU and California regulations.

Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staff. I think this is because OpenAI and Anthropic have both found product-market fit. Enterprise customers are now paying API prices I think they've found product-market fit And they're ramping up The AI-failure stories around this are pretty thin We also know the labs are spending a lot API revenue is becoming less important April is a new inflection point Enterprise customers are now paying API p...

NY-12 congressional candidate Alex Bores speaks during a campaign event. | Bloomberg via Getty Images By the time that the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district wraps up in June, Anthropic and OpenAI will have spent millions on their battle over the political future of AI: who gets to regulate it, or who will be punished for trying to regulate it. But the real winner of their feud may be the guy they're currently fighting over: a once-obscure New York state assemblyman, who they've Streisand-effected into becoming the poster child for AI safety regulation. Ever since l...

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See how OpenAI, Thrive, and Crete built a self-improving tax agent with Codex, automating filings, improving accuracy, and accelerating workflows.

Warp uses GPT-5.5 and OpenAI models to coordinate coding agents across local, cloud, and open-source development workflows.

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