Factory Commits $100M to Partner Network, Pushes to Scale Software Factories
Two new tracks—strategists and engineers—for consulting and SI partners, first cohort launching this quarter
The company behind ChatGPT and the GPT family of models. It sparked the current AI boom with ChatGPT's launch in 2022. As of August 2026, its flagship model lineup is GPT-5.6, with an improved Sol for paying users and Luna assigned to free users. Around the same time, it released a new model called Astra, which came with warnings about potentially catastrophic cyber capabilities. The company also published an agent plugin standard together with AWS, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and others. It unveiled a GPT-Live design for seamless voice conversations, and announced plans for a smart speaker slated for release in 2027.
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Two new tracks—strategists and engineers—for consulting and SI partners, first cohort launching this quarter
Cognition CEO Scott Wu denied the sale rumor on X shortly after the report broke
A workflow that uses GPT Image 2 to change only the headline while keeping layout and logos intact
Zero data retention continues for frontier model API customers, alongside a preview of a system that flags risks without anyone reading the content
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Ads appear as a widget below responses for Free and Go plan users, with advertisers also set to gain platform access
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In IBM Research's tests across 8 models, DeepSeek preferred full guideline sets while gpt-oss performed better with compressed versions
Liquid AI added a loop, and both coding agents completed the production-grade task
Three OpenAI employees walk through their step-by-step workflows for building meeting briefs, blog drafts, and strategy decks with ChatGPT Work, alongside the full text of prompts OpenAI released
Developer events set for Bengaluru, Tokyo, Seoul, Berlin, Paris, London, Sao Paulo, and Mexico City starting in October