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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…

Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI boom.

Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Financial Times. CEO Sam Altman argued that giving the public a financial interest in the company would be the best way to share the upside of AI, the FT reported, citing two unnamed people familiar with the talks. He's said to have first pitched the idea to Trump early last year. Altman reportedly suggested the 5 percent figure. Based on OpenAI's latest funding round, which ended with the company v...

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

“After college, my plan was to come to New York and get a record deal.” | Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman - the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures - was a bit like watching a toddler have a temper tantrum at his nursery school teacher. Savitt's questions were "designed to trick me," Musk said. He also told Savitt at one point, "You mostly do unfair questions." Savitt, who has the approximate demeanor of a handsome Droopy Dog, gently told Musk, "I am trying t...

OpenAI publishes adoption metrics showing ChatGPT user growth and expanded capability exploration across regions.