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OpenAI launched on Tuesday a new scientific workspace program called Prism that is available for free to anyone with a ChatGPT account. Designed as an AI-enhanced word processor and research tool for scientific papers, Prism is deeply integrated with GPT-5.2, which can be used to assess claims, revise prose, or search for prior research. Prism isn’t designed to conduct research …

OpenAI is preparing to lift the curtain on its long-rumored hardware ambitions, with the company expected to unveil its first device by the end of 2026. The revelation came from OpenAI’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, Chris Lehane, who shared the update during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. While Chris Lehane acknowledged that timelines may shift depending on …

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. In 2025, OpenAI has battled the perception that it was ceding ground in the AI …

Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of AI. Hao had written that a proposed Google data center in a town near Santiago, Chile, could require “more than one thousand times the amount of water consumed by the entire population”—a figure which, thanks …

OpenAI launched its latest frontier model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday amid increasing competition from Google, pitching it as its most advanced model yet and one designed for developers and everyday professional use.  OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 is coming to ChatGPT paid users and developers via the API in three flavors: Instant, a speed-optimized model for routine queries like information-seeking, writing, and translation; Thinking, …

The Walt Disney Company announced on Thursday that it has signed a three-year partnership with OpenAI that will bring its iconic characters to the company’s Sora AI video generator. Disney is also making a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI. Launched in September, Sora allows users to create short videos using simple prompts. With this new agreement, users will be …

After a string of disturbing mental health incidents involving AI chatbots, a group of state attorneys general sent a letter to the AI industry’s top companies, with a warning to fix “delusional outputs” or risk being in breach of state law.  The letter, signed by dozens of AGs from U.S. states and territories with the National Association of Attorneys General, …

It’s been quite the year for Coreweave. In March, the AI cloud infrastructure provider went public in one of the biggest and most anticipated IPOs of the year that didn’t live up to its hype. Another setback took place in October, when a planned acquisition of the cloud provider’s business partner, Core Scientific, faltered due to skepticism from the acquisition …

Anysphere, the company that makes AI coding assistant darling Cursor, isn’t thinking about an IPO any time soon, its co-founder CEO Michael Truell said onstage Monday at Fortune’s AI Brainstorm conference. After reaching $1 billion in annualized revenue in November and raising $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation last month, Truell said his company is instead focused on building …

OpenAI is hiring Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its new chief revenue officer. The news was first reported by Wired, then confirmed by OpenAI in a blog post. Dresser’s new role comes after more than 14 years at Salesforce, Slack’s parent company. While at Slack, Dresser oversaw the introduction of several AI features. OpenAI says that Dresser will be responsible …