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Develop Physical AI Reasoning, World, and Action Models with NVIDIA Cosmos 3
Physical AI systems must understand the real world before they can act within it. Robots, autonomous vehicles, and smart spaces need to understand what's...
Advancing AI Infrastructure for Agentic AI with NVIDIA DOCA In-Silicon Security
The AI era is driving a new class of infrastructure: AI factories that transform data into intelligence for autonomous AI agents operating at unprecedented...
NVIDIA Vera CPU Sets a New Standard for Agentic Workloads in AI Factories
Each wave of AI has created a new scaling law. Pretraining scaled intelligence through larger datasets, more parameters, and massively parallel GPU systems....
“Tech and Tariffs” Campaign: Influence activity targeting US tech policy
OpenAI banned likely PRC-origin accounts using AI to create comments and cartoons about US tech policy, tariffs, and trade restrictions.
“Data Center Bandwagon” Campaign: US-targeted influence activity
OpenAI banned a likely PRC-origin cluster using AI to generate social media content criticizing US data centers and AI infrastructure.
Boston Children’s uses AI to unlock new diagnoses
Boston Children’s Hospital uses OpenAI technology to improve patient care, reduce operational burden, and help diagnose more than 40 rare disease cases.
How Braintrust turns customer requests into code with Codex
How Braintrust engineers use Codex with GPT-5.5 to run experiments and code faster.
Strengthening societal resilience with Rosalind Biodefense
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.
A shared playbook for trustworthy third party evaluations
OpenAI shares guidance on third-party AI evaluations, covering how to assess model capabilities, safeguards, and validity for frontier systems.
Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler
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How Endava builds an agentic organization with Codex
Learn how Endava uses Codex to build an agentic organization, accelerating software delivery and reducing requirements analysis from weeks to hours.
OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework
Explore OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework and how our AI safety, security, and risk practices align with emerging EU and California regulations.
Cisco and OpenAI redefine enterprise engineering with Codex
Cisco and OpenAI are redefining enterprise engineering with Codex, helping Cisco scale AI-native development, accelerate AI Defense work, and automate defect remediation.
Building self-improving tax agents with Codex
See how OpenAI, Thrive, and Crete built a self-improving tax agent with Codex, automating filings, improving accuracy, and accelerating workflows.
Warp’s big bet on building open source with GPT-5.5
Warp uses GPT-5.5 and OpenAI models to coordinate coding agents across local, cloud, and open-source development workflows.
Election information and safeguards in 2026
Ahead of global elections, we’re helping people access information, supporting cyber defenders, and increasing AI transparency
Reachy Mini goes fully local
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Shipping a Trillion Parameters With a Hub Bucket: Delta Weight Sync in TRL
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AI is becoming a first hire for small businesses
New research shows how 4 million Americans use ChatGPT to start, run, and grow small businesses, lowering the cost of entrepreneurship with AI.
OpenAI, Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL announce strategic content partnership
OpenAI partners with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL to bring trusted Brazilian journalism to ChatGPT, expanding access to news with attribution and transparency.
Harness, Scaffold, and the AI Agent Terms Worth Getting Right
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How Virgin Atlantic ships faster with Codex
How Virgin Atlantic used Codex to ship its revamped mobile app on a fixed holiday travel deadline, reaching near-total unit test coverage and zero P1 defects.
OpenAI named a Leader in enterprise coding agents by Gartner
OpenAI is named a leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents, with Codex recognized for innovation and enterprise-scale deployment.
We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks
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AdventHealth advances whole-person care with OpenAI
AdventHealth is using ChatGPT for Healthcare to streamline workflows, reduce administrative burden, and return more time to patient care.