Introducing GPT 5.4
OpenAI’s March 5, 2026 announcement presents GPT-5.4 as its new flagship model for professional work, saying it combines stronger reasoning, coding, tool use, and agent-style workflows into one system that is meant to handle documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and longer, more complex tasks with less back and forth. It says GPT-5.4 Thinking in ChatGPT can now ....
Codex Security: now in research preview
This article introduces Codex Security, an OpenAI application security agent designed to find higher-confidence vulnerabilities in code by building a detailed understanding of how a project works, rather than just flagging lots of low-value issues. It uses a project-specific threat model, searches for problems in context, validates findings in sandboxed or tailored environments when ....
OpenAI to acquire Astral
OpenAI says it plans to acquire Astral, the company behind widely used open source Python tools like uv, Ruff, and ty, to strengthen Codex and expand its role across more of the software development process. The article says Codex has grown quickly this year, and OpenAI wants it to do more than generate code ....
Introducing GPT 5.4 mini and nano
This March 17, 2026 article introduces GPT-5.4 mini and nano as OpenAI’s newest small models, aimed at high-volume work where speed, responsiveness, and cost matter more than using the largest model. It says GPT-5.4 mini is more than twice as fast as GPT-5 mini while improving coding, reasoning, vision, and tool use, and that ....
Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora
Details are somewhat limited from the accessible preview, but the article says OpenAI is shutting down its Sora AI video app and that Disney is walking away from its planned investment after OpenAI exited the video generation business. It frames the move as a sharp reversal for a product that had been pitched as ....
OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video app just months after launch
OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its standalone AI video app, after a short and highly visible run that began with big excitement around realistic text-to-video generation and later expanded with Sora 2 in late 2025. It says the company is ending both the consumer app and API as it redirects computing power and attention ....
The Tech Bubble Might Finally Be Popping
Sora’s shutdown is a sharp reminder of how overheated the AI hype cycle around Hollywood became. It frames OpenAI’s video ambitions, and Disney’s willingness to engage with them, as part of a rush to treat generative video as an industry-changing force before the business case, legal risks, and long-term strategy were really settled. The ....
Update on the OpenAI Foundation
OpenAI Foundation is beginning to put new funding to work and expects to invest at least $1 billion over the next year in four areas: life sciences and curing diseases, jobs and economic impact, AI resilience, and community programs. It puts the biggest early emphasis on health and science, including Alzheimer’s research, better public ....
AI CEOs are scaring America
The article argues that some AI leaders, especially Sam Altman and Alex Karp, are helping make the public more fearful of AI by emphasizing how disruptive or dangerous it could become, even while trying to sell it. It says that kind of messaging can serve business goals by making AI seem so powerful that ....

