OpenAI wants your brand mascot on Sora. What could possibly go wrong?
The article explores OpenAI’s push to encourage brands to bring their mascots and characters onto Sora, its AI video generation platform, and why that idea carries significant risks. While AI-generated videos could let companies create fast, inexpensive marketing content and keep mascots constantly active, the approach raises concerns about brand control, consistency, and misuse. ....
SoftBank has fully funded $40 billion investment in OpenAI
SoftBank Group has completed its massive investment in OpenAI, fulfilling a planned funding round of up to about $40 billion by sending the final tranche of roughly $22 billion to the AI company behind ChatGPT, according to people familiar with the matter, as reported by CNBC. This funding, first agreed earlier in 2025, makes ....
Rumor: OpenAI’s New ‘Audio-Based’ Device Could Arrive Very Soon
OpenAI is reportedly accelerating work on advanced audio artificial intelligence as it prepares to launch a personal device that relies primarily on voice rather than screens, marking a shift toward audio-first computing. The company has reorganized teams to improve its audio AI, which currently lags behind its text models, and is developing a new ....
Sponsored content may be coming to ChatGPT answers
Cybernews reports that OpenAI is exploring the possibility of showing sponsored content and ads in ChatGPT, including potentially placing “sponsored content” alongside or within responses when ads are eventually introduced. Mockups seen by insiders suggest ads could appear in a sidebar next to answers, and sponsored content might even be prioritized in responses, though ....
AI as a Healthcare Ally
How Americans are navigating the system with ChatGPT The report explains how Americans are increasingly using ChatGPT as a practical companion for navigating a strained and confusing healthcare system, especially around insurance, access, and medical administration. It shows that a significant share of users turn to AI for help understanding coverage, preparing for doctor ....
ChatGPT put a weird idea into our heads about how AI should look and act
Fast Company’s latest AI newsletter argues that 2026 may be the year AI stops feeling like simple “chatbots” and starts feeling like real coworkers, highlighting Anthropic’s new Coworker tool — a version of Claude that goes beyond text chats to actively work on complex tasks by integrating with your computer’s files and work apps ....
Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
OpenAI plans to begin testing ads in ChatGPT in the United States for the free tier and the new low-cost ChatGPT Go tier to make advanced AI more accessible with fewer usage limits, while keeping paid tiers (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise) ad-free. The company says ads will be separate, clearly labeled, and will not ....
Introducing ChatGPT Go, now available worldwide
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Go, a new budget-friendly subscription tier that expands access to its popular generative AI by offering significantly more usage and features than the free tier at a lower price point — in the U.S. it costs about $8 per month and it’s available globally in many regions; Go users get ....
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.3-Codex, the most capable version of its Codex coding agent to date, combining advanced coding performance with stronger general reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities. It runs about 25 % faster than the prior Codex model and can handle long-running tasks involving research, tool use, and complex execution, effectively acting like an agent ....
Introducing OpenAI Frontier
OpenAI has launched OpenAI Frontier, a new enterprise platform designed to help large organizations build, deploy, and manage AI agents that can perform real work across business systems. Frontier gives these agents shared business context, onboarding, learning feedback loops, and controlled identities and permissions so they can operate reliably within existing infrastructure like CRM ....

