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A big day for OpenAI.

OpenAI clarifies ChatGPT Work's cloud/desktop separation and local file handling policies.

OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.

OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market.

OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due to a neuroimmune condition, shortly after she had taken on the AGI chief title. (She had formerly been the company's CEO of applications). Around the same time, COO Brad Lightcap also stepped down from his role to focus on "special projects," and OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch also stepped down in order to focus on her health. Rouch planned to return ...

OpenAI's latest family of models promise improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.

OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.

Rebranded Codex promises independent workflows that can run "for hours if needed."

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work today, the company confirmed that it will be "sunsetting" Atlas and is targeting an August 9th date for deprecation. In recent months, OpenAI has also shut down the video generation app Sora and paused plans for a ChatGPT "adult mode" as it works to reduce "side quests" and catch up with Anthropic on productivity features. In a thread about the ChatGPT Work announcements, w...

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 family (Luna, Terra, Sol) with tiered pricing; claims superior agentic performance vs. Claude Opus/Fable on benchmarks.

Meta's new Muse Spark 1.1. will go up against similar products offered by Anthropic and OpenAI.

News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.

OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.

"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."

About two weeks after OpenAI's GPT-5.6 was caught up in regulatory drama - rolled out only to government-approved organizations during a "limited preview" period - the company has received the Trump administration's green light for a public rollout of the model. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it "the best model we have ever produced." To celebrate, OpenAI also unveiled a new AI agent on the same day: ChatGPT Work. It's billed as a combination of ChatGPT and Codex, allowing the everyday non-technical user to take advantage of Codex's capabilities for non-coding tasks, and it's powered by the GPT...

llm 0.31.1 patches tool call JSON error in OpenAI Chat Completion endpoints with empty arguments.

Three big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC backed exits since 2000.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty program to identify biosecurity risks in model outputs.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 with improved token efficiency and cost-performance for enterprise workloads.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work agent with multi-app integration, persistent task execution, and goal-to-output automation.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 becomes default model in Microsoft 365 Copilot, expanding deployment across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Chat applications.

OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT voice mode with GPT-Live, which delegates complex tasks to GPT-5.5 while maintaining conversation flow.

OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT's voice mode with a new model that it says is more like "talking to another person." The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to continue speaking if you pause mid-conversation. During a press briefing, OpenAI research lead Kundan Kumar called GPT-Live-1 the company's "smartest voice model" yet. It will automatically pass your queries to its best text models, like GPT-5.5, when it needs to reason or search the web, allowing it to more quickly transition from researching the topic you've asked about to talking about its findi...

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

OpenAI outlines principles for government and national security partnerships, emphasizing responsible AI deployment, democratic accountability, and public safety.

OpenAI identifies validity issues in SWE-Bench Pro coding benchmark, questioning reliability of popular AI model evaluation metric.

Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.

OpenAI and Walton Family Foundation launch AI Skills Jams for K–12 educators to teach classroom AI applications.

OpenAI releases GPT-Live, a new voice model generation for natural human-AI interaction in ChatGPT Voice.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s oft-discussed promise that Americans will share in the wealth AI creates was in the news again last week. On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that Altman is in…