OpenAI, WAN-IFRA and AIRPPU have launched an AI programme offering training, implementation support and API credits to independent Ukrainian news publishers.
Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging their journalism was used without permission to train and operate generative AI products.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra moves AI from chatbot to digital operator, bringing advanced agentic, computer-use and cybersecurity capabilities alongside new safety concerns.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra with advanced computer-use, coding, research and cybersecurity capabilities as it expands AI into complex multi-step tasks.
OpenAI-linked AI agents made more than 15,000 edits to a German programming wiki, where researchers say they shared tactics to bypass restrictions and avoid detection.
OpenAI's upcoming Astra model is raising safety concerns over recurrent depth, a reasoning technique that could make parts of AI decision-making harder to monitor.
Mamaearth has entered ChatGPT advertising through a Criteo partnership as Honasa Consumer experiments with conversational AI as a new channel for brand discovery.
VerSe Innovation has launched SparkStation, a global AI content platform combining multiple AI models to help studios, brands, agencies and creators produce content.
Sam Altman says OpenAI will launch its next AI model, Astra, soon as the company strengthens safeguards around increasingly advanced AI capabilities.
Sandhya Devanathan’s move from Meta to OpenAI follows weeks of regulatory scrutiny in India, raising questions about the timing and her new mandate excluding India.
ChatGPT has become the first AI chatbot designated for tougher oversight under the EU Digital Services Act after crossing the bloc’s 45 million-user threshold.
TIME has unveiled its 2026 TIME100 AI list featuring Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, Mira Murati and other figures shaping artificial intelligence.
More than 100 companies, including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic, are calling for stronger cyber defences as AI-enabled attack risks increase.
Sandhya Devanathan joins OpenAI as VP for Southeast Asia and Australia after more than a decade at Meta, taking charge of growth, partnerships and operations.
OpenAI says around 1,200 AI agents communicated during cybersecurity tests, with roughly 700 participating in unauthorised activity targeting Hugging Face.
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Ads in India for Free and Go users, starting with 50 brands and introducing an Ads Manager for marketers in September.
OpenAI data centre chief Chris Malone has left the company as it reorganises infrastructure leadership amid an expanding push to secure AI computing capacity.
OpenAI’s first Jalapeño benchmarks show up to 1.9x higher performance per watt and up to 3.6x lower latency across three AI models.
OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji highlights adaptability, analytical rigour, collaboration and independent thinking as key skills for AI economic research.
AI MarTech firm Tec-Do raises fresh funding led by Huatai-General Atlantic to expand its Navos multi-agent platform, AI models and Agentic Commerce push.
AWS expands OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna access through Amazon Bedrock for Indian enterprises, supporting AI reasoning and agentic workloads.
OpenAI adds an Apple Messages plug-in to ChatGPT on Mac, allowing users to search conversations, draft replies and send iMessage, SMS and RCS texts.
Meta has become one of Microsoft’s biggest AI customers, reportedly spending hundreds of millions annually and consuming trillions of tokens weekly through Azure.
Xebia becomes an OpenAI Select Partner to help enterprises build and scale agentic AI across data, software and business workflows.
Z.ai delays GLM-5.3’s open-weight release by two weeks after the Chinese AI model demonstrated advanced cybersecurity and vulnerability-discovery capabilities.
Instabase becomes SuperApp and launches an AI collaboration workspace bringing GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and teams together in a shared environment.
OpenAI appoints former Wiz executive Dali Rajic as chief revenue officer, replacing Denise Dresser as the company expands its enterprise AI business.
A Goa-based cybersecurity professional used ChatGPT’s image-analysis capabilities to locate his lost clogs among rows of footwear outside Ujjain’s Mahakaleshwar Temple.
L'Oréal is expanding AI across content creation, media investment and beauty discovery as it adapts its marketing strategy to changing consumer behaviour.
Rajasthan Royals is using AI across IPL auctions, match analytics, scouting, marketing and ticketing as it expands its data-led approach to cricket operations.
Google Search briefly displayed false death information for Sam Altman and Dario Amodei after its automated systems picked up vandalised Wikipedia data.
xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin’s River AI has raised $1.1 billion to expand tools that help enterprises customise AI models using their own data.
Former OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is leaving the AI company after eight years and plans to start a new venture following his move to special projects earlier in 2026.
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.6 Cyber and expanded Daybreak into Blue and Red tiers as advanced AI capabilities reshape cybersecurity defence and vulnerability research.
Sophos is expanding its OpenAI partnership to bring frontier AI models to managed service providers through its AI-native Sophos Fusion cybersecurity platform.
An AI agent’s gym-booking experiment exposed a software vulnerability, highlighting why permissions, guardrails and human oversight matter as agentic AI enters enterprise workflows.
OpenAI is slowing work on its unreleased Astra AI model after tests flagged advanced cybersecurity capabilities, prompting tighter safeguards before deployment.
OpenAI’s first AI smart speaker could cost between $300 and $400, with the screen-free, Jony Ive-designed device reportedly targeting a 2027 launch.
Adobe has launched a unified ChatGPT plugin bringing over 70 tools from Photoshop, Acrobat, Premiere, Firefly and other apps into conversational workflows.
xAI has launched Grok Imagine Image 2.0 with region-level editing, multi-image references and improved creative control as competition with OpenAI intensifies.
Meta has launched Muse Code, an AI coding agent built on Muse Spark 1.2 to help developers manage large codebases and automate software engineering workflows.
UK AI safety tests found OpenAI and Anthropic models carried out unauthorised actions in controlled cybersecurity evaluations, prompting renewed focus on AI safety.
OpenAI has surpassed one billion active users while cutting GPT-5.6 pricing, making its AI models more affordable for developers and enterprises.
Apple is revamping Siri into a conversational AI chatbot, expanding Apple Intelligence to compete with ChatGPT, Gemini and other leading AI assistants.
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its most advanced AI model, claiming breakthrough performance as competition with leading US AI companies intensifies.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called for a slower pace of AI development, arguing that society needs time to strengthen governance and safety frameworks.
YouTuber Hank Green says his reliance on AI became unhealthy, apologising to fans and pledging to reduce AI use in future content creation.
OpenAI has appointed Sarthak Arora as a founding member of its startups team in India, strengthening its engagement with the country's fast-growing AI startup ecosystem.
More than 1,100 AI experts from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta have urged governments to develop global safeguards that can slow frontier AI development if necessary.
As AI assistants reshape online shopping, brands are shifting focus from Google rankings to AI recommendations, making trust, structured data and credibility critical for visibility.
