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High-signal field notes, architecture teardowns, and engineering writing from 50 publications. A focused reading queue for becoming a stronger end-to-end engineer. Updated 21 Aug.
Codex Security: now in research preview
Codex Security is an AI application security agent that analyzes project context to detect, validate, and patch complex vulnerabilities with higher confidence and less noise.
How Balyasny Asset Management built an AI research engine
By combining rigorous model evaluation, full-platform use of OpenAI, and agent workflows, Balyasny is reinventing investment research.
How Descript engineers multilingual video dubbing at scale
Using OpenAI reasoning models, Descript unlocked automatic localization of large content libraries without losing timing or meaning.
Bringing Robotics AI to Embedded Platforms: Dataset Recording, VLA Fine‑Tuning, and On‑Device Optimizations
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Introducing GPT-5.4
Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer use, tool search, and 1M-token context.
GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card
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Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good
OpenAI introduces CoT-Control and finds reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, reinforcing monitorability as an AI safety safeguard.
Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity
OpenAI shares new tools, certifications, and measurement resources to help schools and universities close AI capability gaps and expand opportunity.
VfL Wolfsburg turns ChatGPT into a club-wide capability
By focusing on people, not pilots, the Bundesliga club is scaling efficiency, creativity, and knowledge—without losing its football identity.
Introducing the Adoption news channel
Practical insights and frameworks to turn AI progress into business advantage
Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Excel and new financial app integrations, powered by GPT-5.4 to accelerate modeling, research, and analysis in regulated environments.
The five AI value models driving business reinvention
Five AI value models show how leaders can sequence AI from workforce fluency to process reinvention and build durable business advantage.
Introducing Modular Diffusers - Composable Building Blocks for Diffusion Pipelines
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Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons
A new preprint extends single-minus amplitudes to gravitons, with GPT-5.2 Pro helping derive and verify nonzero graviton tree amplitudes in quantum gravity.
How Axios uses AI to help deliver high-impact local journalism
Axios COO Allison Murphy explains how the company uses AI to support local reporters, streamline newsroom workflows, and deliver high-impact local journalism at scale.
Understanding AI and learning outcomes
OpenAI introduces the Learning Outcomes Measurement Suite to assess AI’s impact on student learning across diverse educational environments over time.
PRX Part 3 — Training a Text-to-Image Model in 24h!
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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.
GPT-5.3 Instant: Smoother, more useful everyday conversations
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GPT-5.3 Instant System Card
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Our agreement with the Department of War
Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety red lines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified environments.
Introducing the Stateful Runtime Environment for Agents in Amazon Bedrock
Stateful Runtime for Agents in Amazon Bedrock brings persistent orchestration, memory, and secure execution to multi-step AI workflows powered by OpenAI.
Scaling AI for everyone
Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.
Joint Statement from OpenAI and Microsoft
Microsoft and OpenAI continue to work closely across research, engineering, and product development, building on years of deep collaboration and shared success.
OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership
OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models, and enterprise AI agents.