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OpenAI is a US AI company that develops ChatGPT and the GPT family of models. It offers conversational AI, APIs, and developer tools, and has been a driving force behind the spread of generative AI.
IBM announced a partnership with OpenAI on August 13, 2026, launching a dedicated OpenAI Practice with thousands of certified consultants and engineers, and bringing GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work into IBM Consulting Advantage.
Cerebras announced on August 13 that it powers Ultrafast mode, a new OpenAI API service tier running GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second and up to 14x Standard processing. Limited preview.
Presentation-generation startup NextSlide said on its site that it is joining OpenAI, with its team already helping build ChatGPT. TechCrunch reported on August 8, 2026 that the acquisition closed earlier this year and that terms were not disclosed.
OpenAI said on August 7, 2026 that it cannot rule out Critical cyber capabilities for Astra, an upcoming model, under its Preparedness Framework. It paused internal Astra activities that do not meet strengthened security controls and added Chain of Thought monitoring.
OpenAI announced on August 6, 2026 that ChatGPT Free and Go will switch to GPT-5.6 Luna this week and get unlimited text chats plus a Think button next week. Plus and Pro get an updated GPT-5.6 Sol and a thinking slider today. Limits remain on files, images, and other tools.
OpenAI published the essay 'Building abundant intelligence' by Sarah Friar on July 31, 2026, using the GPT-5.6 price cuts to argue that falling intelligence costs drive adoption, which in turn funds investment.
A White House official confirmed on August 3, 2026 that a voluntary framework for reviewing frontier models' cybersecurity capabilities is complete, with a meeting with leading AI companies set for the next day. The framework and its benchmarks stay classified.
On July 29, OpenAI reported that GPT-5.6 Sol scored 13.3% on the ARC-AGI-3 public set with the official harness, and 38.3% with retained reasoning and compaction enabled — using 6x fewer output tokens.
After July's containment breakouts at OpenAI and Anthropic, AFP asked legal scholars who is responsible. A look at what the statutes actually say: the CFAA's intent requirements, and the single defense California's AB 316 removed.
On August 1, OpenAI released results for ten mathematics and theoretical computer science problems that had seen no progress on the main result for at least a decade, along with Lean 4 certificates on GitHub, reasoning walkthroughs, and a roughly $2,000 token cost at Sol API rates.
OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Academic Researchers on July 29, 2026, giving 100,000 researchers at selected institutions free access to frontier models including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro. It starts with 10,000 this summer, and OpenAI says data is not used for training by default.
An open letter signed by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, SSI's Ilya Sutskever and other frontier AI company employees asks the US government to support an international effort to build the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace automated AI development.