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ChatGPT, the GPT model line, and OpenAI's product and research moves — tracked for builders as they ship.

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GLM-5.2 puts top-tier coding within four points of Claude for a sixth the cost

GLM-5.2 ships open MIT weights with coding scores four points behind Claude Opus and a sixth the cost, 48 hours after US export controls pulled a frontier model.

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COMPUTEvia @gdb2d ago

OpenAI adds credit usage analytics and spend controls for enterprises

Admin console now exposes per-credit usage and tighter spend limits, helping teams cap runaway inference costs.

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DEVvia @OpenAIDevs2d ago

OpenAI rolls out Codex Record and Replay to select markets

Demo-to-skill capture begins limited availability with broader rollout planned, per the Codex changelog.

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AIvia @theinformation2d ago

Google's Noam Shazeer leaves Gemini pre-training for OpenAI

Losing a top pre-training mind dents Google's perceived edge in the one area it was viewed to lead, and hands OpenAI depth.

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LAUNCHESvia @togethercomputeYesterday

OpenAI's GPT Image 2 lands on Together's serverless inference

Teams can call OpenAI's image model through Together to add generation and editing to multimodal apps.

AIvia @TheRundownAIYesterday

Noam Shazeer moves from Google DeepMind to OpenAI

Transformer co-author's reported jump signals talent flow but the thread carries no product or roadmap detail.

AIvia @mreflowYesterday

DeepMind loses Shazeer and Jumper to OpenAI and Anthropic

Commentary on two senior departures days apart, framing it as a talent blow without new figures or terms.

AIvia @theinformationYesterday

Google, Microsoft, Salesforce back enterprise AI software standard

The standard aims to keep existing enterprise apps central, blunting OpenAI and Anthropic's drive to make agents the control layer.

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