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OpenAI announced Presence on July 22, 2026, a product designed to deploy AI agents for specific enterprise workflows in voice and chat. OpenAI says Presence combines model reasoning with policies, guardrails and an improvement loop powered by Codex.
OpenAI said it will provide $4 million in Codex access for about 2,000 Genesis researchers and $3 million in API support for two large scientific campaigns. The company also offered up to $10 million in API usage for $2.5 million spent and access to GPT‑Rosalind for eligible biology projects.
OpenAI detailed Project Camellia, a privately funded data center in Effingham County that will contract 3.2 GW of power between 2028 and 2032. The company pledged $80M in community benefits, up to $71M in Codex credits, and an annual independent audit.
OpenAI rolled out Health in ChatGPT on July 23, 2026, to U.S. users 18+ on web and iOS across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. Users can connect Apple Health and supported medical records; OpenAI says connected data won’t train foundation models or be used for ads.
OpenAI published a field report (July 28, 2026) on eight agent-assisted scientific computing projects, mainly in the life sciences. The report finds agents accelerate development but human validation and long-term stewardship remain necessary.
OpenAI says GPT‑5.6 Sol balances capability and cost, outperforming Claude Fable 5 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index at under half the cost. The company reports kernel, routing, caching, and agentic-harness changes that cut serving costs and raised token efficiency.
Textly released a macOS utility that captures text and tables from images, videos, PDFs and apps while keeping table rows and columns. The app exports to CSV, Markdown and TSV, offers instant translation and searchable clipboard history, and launched March 20, 2025.
OpenAI will provide up to 100,000 academic researchers with free access to ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, starting with a 10,000-seat launch this summer. An August 10 update says new applicants join a waitlist while OpenAI reviews early applications and runs a lottery.
OpenAI reports that two API settings—retained reasoning and compaction—raised GPT-5.6 Sol’s ARC-AGI-3 public-set score from 13.3% to 38.3% and cut output tokens by about sixfold. OpenAI attributes earlier low results to a harness that discarded private reasoning and used rolling truncation.
avatarin partnered with Yamada Holdings to deploy the Kurashi-Marugoto AI Agent on Yamada Denki’s online store, using OpenAI’s GPT‑Realtime for multilingual voice and text support. In a two-week public campaign about 30,000 users engaged and 92% of survey responses were positive.