OpenAI Expands Mental Health Safeguards Amid Consolidated California Lawsuits
OpenAI announces trusted contact feature and improved distress detection as mental health lawsuits consolidate in California court. New cases expected.
OpenAI Releases GABRIEL Toolkit to Transform Social Science Research
OpenAI's new open-source GABRIEL toolkit uses GPT to convert qualitative text and images into quantitative data, enabling researchers to analyze millions of documents at scale.
OpenAI Deploys Web Index Defense Against AI Agent Data Theft
OpenAI reveals new security architecture using independent web indexing to prevent URL-based data exfiltration from ChatGPT and agentic AI systems.
OpenAI GPT-5.2 Derives New Theoretical Physics Result in Landmark AI Discovery
GPT-5.2 Pro proposed a novel formula for gluon amplitudes that human physicists later verified, marking a first for AI-generated scientific discoveries.
OpenAI GPT-5 Slashes Protein Synthesis Costs 40% in Autonomous Lab Breakthrough
GPT-5 and Ginkgo Bioworks autonomous lab achieved 40% cost reduction in cell-free protein synthesis through 36,000 AI-designed experiments over six rounds.
OpenAI Abandons SWE-bench Verified After Finding 59% of Failed Tests Were Flawed
OpenAI reveals major contamination issues in SWE-bench Verified benchmark, showing frontier AI models memorized solutions and tests rejected correct code.
GitHub Copilot Drops Claude Opus 4.1 and GPT-5 in Latest AI Model Purge
GitHub deprecates three AI models from Copilot on Feb 17, pushing users to Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2. Enterprise admins must update model policies.
GitHub Copilot Hit 100% Error Rate During January Outage Tied to OpenAI GPT-4.1
GitHub's January 2026 availability report reveals two major incidents including a Copilot outage linked to OpenAI's GPT-4.1 degradation and widespread platform issues.
GitHub Copilot Expands GPT-5.2-Codex to Visual Studio, JetBrains, Xcode, Eclipse
OpenAI's GPT-5.2-Codex now available across major IDEs through GitHub Copilot, expanding enterprise AI coding capabilities beyond VS Code.
Oracle Confirms OpenAI as Tenant for $165B New Mexico AI Data Center Project
Oracle reveals it will deploy AI infrastructure for OpenAI at Project Jupiter, a massive data center campus backed by $165B in industrial revenue bonds.