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OpenAI has opened up ChatGPT more fully to developers by allowing third party apps and services to connect directly to the platform, aiming to turn it into a broader ecosystem rather than a standalone chatbot. The move lets developers build tools that can tap into ChatGPT’s conversational interface for tasks like travel planning, booking, customer service, and research, while ....

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. Once a character exists in ....

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 it one of the largest ....

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 architecture that produces more natural, ....

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 OpenAI says it’s only exploring ....

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 visits, managing billing disputes, and ....

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 — and suggesting this shift ....

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 influence the answers ChatGPT provides, ....

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 access to GPT-5.2 Instant with ....

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 that can write, debug, test, ....

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 systems, data warehouses, and internal ....

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 show an upfront plan while ....

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 possible, and can suggest fixes ....

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 by helping plan changes, work ....

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 it comes close to full ....

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 a major creative and Hollywood-facing ....

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 toward higher-priority work, especially robotics, ....

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 article suggests the collapse says ....

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 health datasets, and support for ....

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 only a small group of ....