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Towards safety cases for frontier AI training

Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents

When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what…

Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents

Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents…

The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support

OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.

Welcome RL Environments to the hub

Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.

Are you a Codex Original?

We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things. If you want to be a part of the next chapter of the Codex Originals program, tell us more about your story and project below.

Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex

With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector

The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing,” which…

Lowe’s answers millions of home improvement questions with OpenAI

Lowe’s uses OpenAI models to power Mylow and Mylow Companion, helping customers and associates answer 25M+ questions and move home improvement projects forward.

Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI

Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at scale.

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark

Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

Two years of OpenAI Academy

Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello

OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense

OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.

How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra

With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.

Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI

Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.