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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.
Tracing Discord's Elixir Systems (Without Melting Everything)
Join Senior Software Engineer Nick Krichevsky as he explains how Discord added distributed tracing to Elixir's message passing and optimized it to handle millions of concurrent users.
Hello, Agent! A podcast for the agentic enterprise
Cut through the hype and learn how enterprise leaders are designing, deploying, and scaling AI agents in the real world.
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.
Before You Migrate: Five Surprising Ingress-NGINX Behaviors You Need to Know
As announced November 2025, Kubernetes will retire Ingress-NGINX in March 2026. Despite its widespread usage, Ingress-NGINX is full of surprising defaults and side effects that are probably present in your cluster today. This blog highlights these behaviors so that you can migrate away safely and ma...
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.
An update on our mental health-related work
OpenAI shares updates on its mental health safety work, including parental controls, trusted contacts, improved distress detection, and recent litigation developments.
Using LLMs to amplify human labeling and improve Dash search relevance
How we train Dash's search ranking models with a mix of human and LLM-assisted labeling.
Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed
Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and OpenAI partner to accelerate federal permitting
OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory introduce DraftNEPABench, a new benchmark evaluating how AI coding agents can accelerate federal permitting—showing potential to reduce NEPA drafting time by up to 15% and modernize infrastructure reviews.
OpenAI Codex and Figma launch seamless code-to-design experience
OpenAI and Figma launch a new Codex integration that connects code and design, enabling teams to move between implementation and the Figma canvas to iterate and ship faster.
Mixture of Experts (MoEs) in Transformers
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A Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026
A Round Up And Comparison of 10 Open-Weight LLM Releases in Spring 2026