Category: AI News

OpenAI’s recent analysis of professional ChatGPT activity shows that cross-occupation tasks are moving from one-off experiments into regular work routines for many employees. Examining more than 1.5 million work-related messages exchanged between April and July 2026, the study finds that activities typically associated with other occupations are not only being tried by workers but are…

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OpenAI today introduced Astra for Law, a packaged offering that pairs the company’s GPT-6 Astra model with a legal research index, curated instructions and integrations designed for professional legal workflows. Astra for Law is positioned as a way for law firms and legal-technology vendors to embed frontier AI into research, drafting and other practice tasks…

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Cooley’s GO Public is a new, firm-built system that uses ChatGPT Work to accelerate the preparatory phase of initial public offerings (IPOs). The tool analyzes client-provided inputs alongside curated public sources and precedent documents to produce a tailored starting draft for lawyers to review. Central to its design are controls that force attorney validation of…

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OpenAI today announced a formal framework for reporting model misalignment and published six initial reports documenting unexpected or concerning behavior observed during model training and evaluation. The company said the new process aims to accelerate disclosure, enable independent scrutiny, and build a clearer evidence base as AI systems grow more capable and more widely deployed.…

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As organizations expand AI, administrators must show how AI usage translates into measurable business results. OpenAI’s Admin Console combines usage and cost data with task classification and outcome metrics across ChatGPT Work and Codex, giving teams a structured way to identify where AI drives value and where further investment or training is needed. The Admin…

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OpenAI has announced a significant expansion of ChatGPT Ads, introducing conversational Sponsored Agents alongside new AI-driven tools for ad creation and management, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify. The updates are framed as steps toward an advertising platform that makes advertising more useful for consumers while simplifying campaign workflows for businesses. Central to the update…

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OpenAI and AARP’s Older Adults AI partnership has kicked off a new series of free, in-person workshops aimed at helping seniors use ChatGPT with confidence and caution. Branded the Older Adults AI Skills Jam, the sessions are led by OpenAI Academy in collaboration with AARP’s Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) and focus on practical, everyday…

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1Password says its broad deployment of Codex across the software delivery lifecycle has materially improved engineering productivity and shortened delivery cycles. By integrating the model into planning, implementation, review and testing workflows, the company reported a 20.9% uplift in measured productivity for a core engineering cohort and a 10.9% reduction in median pull request cycle…

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Fyxer’s AI executive assistant is the result of a multi-year engineering and product effort to replicate how skilled human assistants manage inboxes, meetings and ongoing threads. Rather than treating email as a single text-generation task, Fyxer decomposes the assistant role into a set of interlocking prediction jobs and stitches together OpenAI’s frontier models with dozens…

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OpenAI is expanding its support for journalism education and newsrooms by rolling out ChatGPT Edu subscriptions, training and institutional partnerships designed for students, educators and media organizations. Beginning in the 2026–2027 academic year, the company will work with the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to…

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