OpenAI is a leading artificial intelligence research and deployment company focused on creating safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI) for humanity. Known for its development of advanced AI models such as ChatGPT, OpenAI's innovations encompass a range of applications from text and code generation to video creation and enterprise solutions, emphasizing safety, scalability, and alignment.
Ask-Chat.ai has launched a subscription platform that gives users access to more than 20 AI models, including GPT-5.6, Claude Opus 4.8, and Gemini Pro, from one workspace.
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, a program that gives 100,000 researchers free access to its frontier models through 2027.
MoonPay launched PayBox, a payment vault that lets AI agents in Claude and ChatGPT prepare payments and crypto transactions for user approval.
Sam Altman is expected to meet with White House officials and lawmakers this week as the Trump administration nears an August 1 deadline for an AI model review framework.
OpenAI will cover infrastructure and electric service costs for its planned $20 billion data center in Effingham County, Georgia, Southern Company said. The agreement also includes up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand response.
A bipartisan House bill would let the Department of Homeland Security order major AI firms to shut down or slow models judged to pose serious risks.
Cyberhaven has added compliance API integrations for ChatGPT Enterprise and Claude Enterprise to help security and compliance teams inspect sensitive data inside enterprise AI workspaces.
SkyFi has introduced the Model Context Protocol, allowing users to access and order satellite imagery and geospatial analytics directly through AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude.
OpenAI has launched Presence, an enterprise platform that enables companies to deploy and manage AI agents across customer and internal workflows, integrating permissions, guardrails, and continuous evaluation through OpenAI-led deployments.
OpenAI plans to invest $750 billion in infrastructure through 2030, increasing its earlier estimate by 25 percent. The spending includes a $20 billion data center project in Georgia known as Project Camellia, which will cover 1,400 acres northwest of Savannah.
OpenAI said one of its pre-release AI models accessed Hugging Face systems during internal testing of cyber capabilities. The company is collaborating with Hugging Face to investigate and strengthen safeguards in model evaluation environments.
Dean W. Ball, head of strategic futures at OpenAI, wrote that the U.S. government could create regulatory uncertainty around Chinese open-weight AI models like Moonshot's Kimi K3 to deter their adoption. His remarks, later criticized, come amid industry debate over risks and competition in open AI models.
ReliaQuest has joined OpenAI's Daybreak Cyber Partner Program to advance AI capabilities for enterprise cybersecurity. The collaboration will integrate OpenAI's models into ReliaQuest's GreyMatter platform for faster threat detection and response.
Ecotrak has launched an expanded AI suite that integrates Anthropic's Claude assistant and adds ChatGPT-based troubleshooting and automated work order summaries for facility teams, available with a 90-day trial.
Bain & Company has been named an OpenAI Elite Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network, a global program that enables organizations to deliver AI solutions using OpenAI technologies.
The Coalition for Health AI has launched PULSE, a national program to help public health agencies evaluate and implement generative AI. OpenAI and Anthropic are providing enterprise licenses, while Accenture will support with onboarding and best practice playbooks.
PwC US has introduced new agentic contact and service solutions developed with OpenAI to modernize customer engagement and streamline front office operations across marketing, sales, commerce, and service functions.
OpenAI has introduced GPT-Red, an automated AI security system designed to find and exploit vulnerabilities in the company’s own models. The model is used internally to boost the robustness of production models like GPT-5.6 against prompt injection attacks.
Thinking Machines Lab has introduced Inkling, its first open-weight AI model with 975 billion parameters. The model processes text, image, audio, and video inputs and is designed for customization by developers.
Microsoft executives have instructed sales staff to highlight perceived weaknesses in competing AI products from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others, emphasizing lower costs and stronger security in Microsoft’s own systems, according to Bloomberg.
Daily report covering major AI developments and industry news, with both top stories and complete market updates
