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OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI and Target team up on new AI-powered experiences

OpenAI and Target integrate AI-powered shopping experiences via ChatGPT Enterprise to deliver personalized, multi-channel retail interactions, including agent-assisted support and fast fulfillment for Drive Up, Order Pickup, and shipping.

11/19/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Teacher Access Terms

These Teacher Access Terms outline the conditions, responsibilities, and legal provisions for K-12 and higher-ed educators using OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teachers service, including account management, content ownership, compliance, data privacy, and dispute resolution.

11/19/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max revolutionizes agentic coding with multi-context compaction, enhanced token efficiency, long-horizon reasoning, and robust cybersecurity features, boosting developer productivity across IDEs, CLI, cloud, and code review tools.

11/19/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI and Target team up on new AI-powered experiences

OpenAI and Target collaborate to integrate AI-powered personalized shopping, enhanced employee productivity, and streamlined retail operations through the new Target app in ChatGPT and other AI-driven tools.

11/19/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Strengthening our safety ecosystem with external testing

Balancing transparency and safety in frontier AI through independent external third-party assessments that evaluate capability claims, safeguards, and governance across risk domains.

11/19/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

How evals drive the next chapter in AI for businesses

Evaluation frameworks ('evals') enable businesses to translate AI objectives into measurable, reliable outcomes through iterative testing, error analysis, and continuous improvement tailored to specific workflows and goals.

11/19/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Strengthening our safety ecosystem with external testing

OpenAI enhances frontier AI safety by partnering with third party experts for independent evaluations, methodological reviews, and subject-matter expert probing, ensuring transparency, rigor, and trust in deployment decisions.

11/19/2025
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

A chat with the Terminal-Bench team

Terminal-Bench 2.0 and the Harbor framework offer robust, interactive, and scalable containerized benchmarks and execution environments designed to evaluate and optimize general-purpose CLI-based AI agents, driven by a community-focused, impact-oriented research philosophy.

11/19/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

New AI agent learns to use CAD to create 3D objects from sketches

MIT develops an AI agent trained on the VideoCAD dataset to operate CAD software via user-interface actions, transforming 2D sketches into 3D models and aiming to simplify CAD design for engineers and beginners alike.

11/19/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

The cost of thinking

Researchers find that advanced large language models (reasoning models) exhibit a 'cost of thinking' similar to humans by taking more time (tokens) on complex problems, revealing human-like stepwise problem-solving and internal computation parallels.

11/19/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Intuit and OpenAI join forces on new AI-powered experiences

Intuit partners with OpenAI in a $100M+ multi-year deal to integrate AI-powered financial services and personalized experiences directly within ChatGPT, enhancing productivity and decision-making for consumers and businesses.

11/18/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

MIT Energy Initiative conference spotlights research priorities amidst a changing energy landscape

The MIT Energy Initiative conference highlights critical research priorities and collaborative strategies to address emerging energy challenges, focusing on grid resiliency, energy storage, sustainable fuels, carbon capture, vehicle electrification, and geopolitical factors influencing the energy transition.

11/18/2025