OpenAI just launched Trusted Contact, an opt-in ChatGPT feature that lets adults designate a friend or family member to be notified during acute mental health crises. If automated systems and human reviewers confirm a serious self-harm risk, ChatGPT alerts the contact within an hour without sharing chat logs.
OpenAI just rolled out three audio models in its Realtime API, headlined by GPT-Realtime-2, which can deliberate through requests, make parallel tool calls, and hold context across 128K tokens. The drop also includes a live translation model covering 70+ input languages and a streaming Whisper model for instant transcription.
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati just testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her to bypass safety protocols. In a video deposition shown during the Musk v. Altman trial, Murati said Altman falsely claimed legal cleared a new GPT model to skip the deployment safety board. Murati checked with general counsel Jason Kwon, caught the discrepancy, and forced the safety review anyway.
OpenAI just teamed up with NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, Intel, and Microsoft to release MRC, a new networking protocol for AI supercomputers. Published through the Open Compute Project, it sprays packets across hundreds of paths and routes around failures in microseconds. It is already powering massive GB200 clusters to train frontier models without disruption.
OpenClaw just apologized after its 2026.4.29 release triggered gateway slowdowns, plugin dependency loops, and degraded chat channels. The founder admitted to underestimating the transition of moving optional components to ClawHub to reduce supply-chain risks. The project is now slimming down its core, prepping an LTS release for late May, and staffing up with help from OpenAI.
OpenAI just expanded its ChatGPT ad pilot with a beta self-serve Ads Manager, opening campaign access to businesses of all sizes. The platform also introduced cost-per-click (CPC) bidding alongside CPM, plus conversion tracking APIs. OpenAI stresses that ads remain strictly separate from ChatGPT answers and private conversations are never shared.
OpenAI just rolled out GPT-5.5 Instant as the new default model for all ChatGPT users. The update cuts hallucinated claims by 52.5% on high-stakes topics like medicine and finance, trims conversational fluff, and handles personal context from past chats much faster. A new memory sources tool also lets users see and delete the exact history used to shape answers.
The U.S. War Department just signed deals with eight tech giants — including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia — to deploy frontier AI models across classified IL6 and IL7 networks. The initiative aims to build an AI-first military while avoiding vendor lock-in, expanding on an internal platform that already reached 1.3M defense users.
OpenAI just finalized a $10B joint venture with PE firms like TPG and Bain Capital to accelerate corporate deployment, raising over $4B. Minutes later, rival Anthropic announced a similar partnership with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs. AI heavyweights are now leaning directly on big private equity networks to push software into legacy businesses.
OpenAI and PwC just teamed up to bring AI agents directly into corporate finance, automating tasks across forecasting, procurement, tax, and accounting close. OpenAI acted as its own "customer zero," using Codex to process 5x more contracts with the same headcount and handling 200+ investor meetings with IR-GPT. Now, they're packaging those enterprise playbooks for CFOs everywhere.
OpenAI's o1 model just outperformed two attending physicians in diagnosing 76 real emergency room cases, according to a new Harvard study published in Science. Tested directly on raw electronic medical records, o1 nailed the diagnosis 67% of the time during triage, topping the doctors' 55% and 50% marks. While critics noted the test used internists instead of ER specialists, researchers say prospective trials in real care settings are urgently needed.
OpenAI’s relentless push to go public might be hitting a snag. According to The Wall Street Journal, CFO Sarah Friar is privately urging the company to delay its IPO until 2027, warning that it isn't ready for public reporting standards amid missed revenue targets and massive data center spending. Why it matters: While Sam Altman wants to sprint to IPO glory, his finance chief is trying to ensure the company doesn't crash on the way.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just announced that users can now sign in to OpenClaw directly using their ChatGPT accounts and carry their active subscriptions over. Subscribers no longer need to manage a separate account or pay duplicate fees to access tools on OpenClaw. It marks another step toward making ChatGPT subscriptions portable across third-party AI ecosystems.
OpenAI just added animated pets directly into its Codex coding environment. Developers can type the slash command /pet to wake up and play with a virtual companion while coding. It is a lighthearted addition, but it shows OpenAI is willing to inject fun and personality into its developer tools.
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 just became the second AI model to fully crack UK AISI's enterprise cyberattack simulation, trailing only Anthropic's Claude Mythos. It completed the 32-step penetration test—typically a 20-hour job for human experts—in 2 out of 10 attempts while hitting a 71.4% pass rate on expert-level CTF challenges, though industrial control systems remain unbreached.
OpenAI just launched Advanced Account Security for ChatGPT and Codex, letting users lock down sensitive accounts with passkeys or physical YubiKeys instead of passwords. The opt-in setting disables risky SMS recovery, shortens session times, and automatically stops OpenAI from training on your conversations. Why it matters: as AI accounts hold more sensitive personal and company data, phishing-resistant logins are becoming a basic requirement.
OpenAI just explained why its models started obsessing over goblin and gremlin metaphors starting with GPT-5.1. A post-mortem traced the verbal tic to reward training for ChatGPT's "Nerdy" personality, which favored creature words and accidentally leaked into the broader model via RL feedback loops. OpenAI retired the persona in March and cleaned its training data.
OpenAI just published a Cybersecurity Action Plan to help defenders keep pace with AI-powered cyberattacks. Built around five pillars—including democratizing defensive tools and securing frontier models—the initiative aims to fortify digital infrastructure for the US and allies. Why it matters: with malicious actors already scaling up automated attacks, giving defenders equal access to AI tools is becoming a matter of basic survival.
OpenAI just pulled back the curtain on how ChatGPT catches violent intent before it turns into real-world harm. The system pairs classifiers and reasoning models with human reviewers, immediately banning violative accounts and alerting law enforcement if an imminent threat is detected. It is also rolling out a trusted contact feature for adult users.
OpenAI and AWS just expanded their strategic partnership, rolling out a limited preview of GPT-5.5, Codex, and OpenAI-powered Managed Agents on Amazon Bedrock. Enterprise developers can now run OpenAI's frontier models and coding workflows directly inside their existing AWS security and governance perimeter, with Codex usage counting toward AWS commitments.
