Ideogram released Ideogram 4.0 today, a 9.3B parameter open-weight text-to-image model trained from scratch, design-focused and under a non-commercial license

OpenAI introduced six role-specific Codex plugins, Sites, and annotations, and announced that they will put Codex into ChatGPT within the next few weeks

OpenAI updated their EU privacy policy today with preparations for ads for Free and Go users

ChatGPT can now help with more of the job search by showing live job listings and freelance work from sources like Indeed, Upwork, Appcast, and elsewhere on the web, with results picked using your experience, skills, and goals to point out roles that might fit, plus links to apply

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Everything new from OpenAI and Anthropic this week (Week 22, 2026) This past week, OpenAI launched Rosalind Biodefense with trusted access to their GPT-Rosalind life sciences model for developers and select government partners

How I am using the ThinkStation PGX (DGX Spark) for personal AI projects I have been using it for a few months now and wanted to share what has actually been useful for me so far, in case anyone is considering one or putting together a similar setup

OpenAI is working on a new "Translation Block" widget in ChatGPT Fun fact - one of the supported languages is "High Valyrian", a fictional language created for Game of Thrones

OpenAI is retiring o3 from ChatGPT on August 26, 2026 and GPT-4.5 on June 27, 2026 (these changes apply only to ChatGPT, not the API) I will miss GPT-4.5, as it was my favorite model, but I have to admit that I stopped using it a while ago because it was too slow

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade over Opus 4.7 with gains across coding, agentic skills, reasoning, and practical knowledge work, available everywhere today at the same price, with more capable Mythos-class models planned for the coming weeks

OpenAI is updating GPT-5.5 Instant in ChatGPT and the API to improve response style and quality, making it easier to read, more natural in everyday conversations, and better paced in practical help tasks with fewer overly long or bullet-heavy responses

Weekly OpenAI and Anthropic news summary (Week 21, 2026) OpenAI announced that an internal reasoning model autonomously disproved Erdős's 1946 planar unit distance conjecture, a long-standing open problem in discrete geometry

OpenAI and Anthropic news from the past week (Week 20, 2026) OpenAI launched the OpenAI Deployment Company with Tomoro acquisition, shared Daybreak vision for cybersecurity, brought Codex into the ChatGPT mobile app with Remote SSH

OpenAI is rolling out a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT for Pro users in the US on web and iOS, where you can securely connect supported financial accounts through Plaid

OpenAI plans to replace saved memories in ChatGPT with a structured summary of ChatGPT's memory on September 1, with an option to add or update something about yourself directly in the personalization view

OpenAI is testing a new simplified model picker in the ChatGPT web app prompt composer called "Intelligence Picker" Instead of choosing a model and reasoning effort separately, you just pick from "Instant", "Medium" (Thinking @ Standard), "High" (Thinking @ Extended) and "Pro" (Pro @ Extended)

ChatGPT/1.2026.125 beta (Android) adds mentions of Codex Remote (connection to Codex desktop), including Codex Remote bubbles, pets sync from desktop and Codex Voice (voice call) "Codex uses the power of your desktop computer to build software and do complex work"

The week in OpenAI and Anthropic news (Week 19, 2026) OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.5 Instant as the new ChatGPT default model with memory sources and ChatGPT for Excel and Google Sheets globally

OpenAI released three new realtime voice models in the API (with voice updates in ChatGPT still being worked on), the Trusted Contact safety feature in ChatGPT, GPT-5.5-Cyber for defenders, an ads pilot update, and a Codex Chrome extension

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT's default model to GPT-5.5 Instant with smarter, clearer, and more personalized answers, expanding ChatGPT ads with new ways to buy and manage campaigns, introducing memory sources across all ChatGPT consumer plans, and rolling out ChatGPT for Excel & Google Sheets

OpenAI is working on a new "Personal Wiki" ("lore") in ChatGPT

OpenAI and Anthropic news roundup (Week 18, 2026) OpenAI open-sourced Symphony spec for Codex orchestration, published "Our principles" post, announced amended Microsoft partnership, achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization, posted commitment to community safety

OpenAI has now confirmed the new model selector in the composer via updated ChatGPT release notes, with thinking effort controls moved into the model picker for Thinking and Pro models, available on web for Plus, Pro, and Business users

ChatGPT search reported around 159.1 million average monthly active recipients in the EU for the six-month period ending 31 March 2026, up from about 120.4 million for the prior period ending 30 September 2025

Small but useful new feature in the works in ChatGPT web app - "Custom dictionary" ("Add names or terms you want dictation to recognize more accurately")

What happened at OpenAI and Anthropic this past week (Week 17, 2026) OpenAI released GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro with expanded Codex capabilities, launched ChatGPT Images 2.0 with thinking mode, rolled out workspace agents in research preview

OpenAI released GPT-5.5, its new frontier model for complex coding, computer use, knowledge work, and early scientific research

OpenAI is working on a new model selector experiment that you might have noticed during the ChatGPT Images 2.0 livestream Moved directly to prompt composer (again), including submenu for thinking effort, and a keyboard shortcut to toggle between Instant & Thinking model (Ctrl + M / ^M)

OpenAI rolled out new ChatGPT updates including Fast answers, ChatGPT for Clinicians with HealthBench Professional, and ChatGPT for Google Sheets

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0, a state-of-the-art image generation model that brings a step change in detailed instruction following, object placement, dense text rendering, and multilingual output, plus a new thinking mode that can search the web and generate multiple distinct images

OpenAI livestream "Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0" "Gabriel Goh, Kenji Hata, Kiwhan Song, Alex Yu, Boyuan Chen, and Nithanth Kudige join host Sam Altman to introduce and demo ChatGPT Images 2."

OpenAI is preparing Agents in ChatGPT (codename Hermes) including agents builder (studio), templates, schedules, option to use your agent in Slack, add apps, skills, files, memory, instructions and more

Your OpenAI and Anthropic weekly digest (Week 16, 2026) OpenAI announced Cloudflare Agent Cloud partnership with OpenAI frontier models including GPT-5.4, Agents SDK update with native sandbox execution and model-native harness

OpenAI and Anthropic week in review (Week 15, 2026) OpenAI published industrial policy ideas for the Intelligence Age, announced Safety Fellowship pilot program, acquired Cirrus Labs for agent infrastructure

OpenAI is testing ImageGen 2 in ChatGPT I finally got the first image paragen (A/B test "img-1p5-vs-0324-90-s1600-free-0329") and one of the images was generated using "imagegen2-dust-dec-ev3" ("ig2-37p-50ir0324-90p-step1600-ev3")

Here's what happened with OpenAI and Anthropic this past week (even with OpenAI on company-wide spring break) OpenAI closed $122B funding round at $852B valuation with $2B monthly revenue, launched ChatGPT in Apple CarPlay, acquired media company TBPN

What happened with OpenAI and Anthropic this week (Week 13, 2026) OpenAI is shutting down Sora to focus on next model "Spud" and put erotic chatbot plans on hold indefinitely, Sam Altman gave up direct control of safety and security teams

OpenAI is making shopping in ChatGPT richer and more visual with side-by-side comparison, image uploads and improved speed, relevance and product coverage, powered by extending the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) for product discovery, rolling out to all free, Go, Plus and Pro users this week

OpenAI updated ChatGPT release notes confirming the rollout of file storage in ChatGPT, where uploaded or created files like PDFs, spreadsheets, and images are now automatically saved to your Library

This week's recap of OpenAI and Anthropic updates (Week 12, 2026) OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and nano with simplified model picker and restricted message editing, announced Astral acquisition for Codex, plans to merge ChatGPT and Codex into a desktop superapp

ChatGPT/1.2026.076 (Android) adds an announcement that "Video in ChatGPT is here" - "Transform text and image into video with dialogue, soundtrack, and style."

OpenAI is deprecating the legacy deep research mode in ChatGPT on March 26 - the current deep research experience remains unchanged and historical conversations and results stay accessible

"In January and February 2026, on average, nearly 3 million messages each day on consumer ChatGPT in the US involve wages and earnings"

OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano, simplified the ChatGPT model selector and the retry menu, and sunsetted the "Nerdy" base style

DLSS 5 looks fantastic

GPT-5.3 Instant in ChatGPT is getting an update that improves follow-up tone and reduces teaser-style phrasing in responses

As you may know, I am tracking the new ChatGPT and Claude web app builds being deployed and monitoring the changes for AIPRM for ChatGPT & Claude that we are building Interesting trends I have noticed recently

OpenAI and Anthropic week in review (Week 11, 2026) OpenAI announced Promptfoo acquisition, delayed adult mode beyond Q1, Code Red ended after GPT-5.4 release, published Codex skills for OSS maintenance, instruction hierarchy and prompt injection research, Responses API computer environment

ChatGPT now includes references to a new "Websites" section - "Browse websites you have created in ChatGPT and start a new site-building chat"