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OpenAIOpenAI

ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work

ChatGPT Work is an agent that orchestrates across apps, files, and workflows to turn ambitious goals into finished work, leveraging Codex, GPT-5.6, plugins, and features like Sites for end-to-end automation across web, desktop, and mobile.

7/9/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

GPT‑5.6 becomes the new flagship model powering Microsoft 365 Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and collaborative tools, delivering more capable, token-efficient AI assistance.

7/9/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

Tiny robot boats build floating structures

Tiny autonomous boats self-assemble into reconfigurable floating structures through a largely decentralized swarm, enabling on-demand, scalable waterfront infrastructure with minimal human control.

7/9/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

Tiny robot boats build floating structures

FloatForm demonstrates a scalable, decentralized swarm of autonomous micro-boats that self-assemble into configurable floating structures on water, enabling adaptive infrastructure and on-demand public spaces.

7/9/2026
LyftLyft

From Day 1 to Production: Building Lyft’s Analytics & Rides Intelligence Assistant as Onboarding…

From Day 1 to production, this post follows Lyft data scientist Sagar Baronia as he ships Aria—a production-grade analytics and rides intelligence frontend built on Node.js/Next.js with real authentication, streaming, and a scalable backend.

7/9/2026
LyftLyft

From Day 1 to Production: Building Lyft’s Analytics & Rides Intelligence Assistant as Onboarding…

A production-oriented onboarding case study detailing how Lyft’s Aria frontend for the Analytics & Rides Intelligence Assistant was built from Day 1 to live production in three weeks, covering the tech stack, deployment, streaming, and cross-team collaboration that enabled shipping a production frontend.

7/9/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Introducing GPT-Live

GPT‑Live delivers a true continuous, full‑duplex voice assistant that can listen and speak simultaneously, delegates complex tasks to frontier models (like GPT‑5.5), and integrates provenance features such as SynthID watermarking and a verification API into ChatGPT Voice.

7/8/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Helping K–12 educators build practical AI skills

OpenAI Academy's AI Skills Jam empowers K-12 educators with practical, hands-on AI tools and workflows to enhance teaching, planning, and communication.

7/8/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

An in-depth audit of SWE-Bench Pro exposes design flaws and evaluation noise in coding benchmarks and presents a pipeline to separate genuine model capability from flawed signals for safer, more reliable deployment.

7/8/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Introducing GPT-Live

Introducing GPT-Live, a continuous, full-duplex voice AI that powers ChatGPT Voice with real-time listening and natural back-and-forth, delegating deep tasks to frontier models like GPT-5.5, while enabling provenance checks, watermarking, and API-based verification.

7/8/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Our approach to government and national security partnerships

OpenAI's National Security Principles guide responsible government and national security partnerships, outlining guardrails for frontier AI in cyber and biosecurity, transparency, human oversight, and democratic safeguards.

7/8/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Helping K–12 educators build practical AI skills

A hands-on guide to the AI Skills Jam for K–12 Educators, showing how mentors, workshops, and OpenAI Academy resources help teachers and administrators practically integrate AI, boost efficiency, and advance responsible AI literacy in schools.

7/8/2026