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Several Australian universities are partnering with OpenAI to give students and staff access to ChatGPT Edu, Codex and Daybreak Blue. A national survey found 81% of students use AI regularly and institutions are scheduling staged rollouts through 2027.
Franklin Templeton is using OpenAI tools, including Codex, to create a governed “connected intelligence” layer for equity research that brings together research, risk and trading inputs. Katrina Dudley says the approach emphasizes diverse views, risk analysis and controls.
Cult.fit standardized its engineering workflow on Codex and expanded the platform to non‑engineering teams, enabling internal app building, data self‑service and voice‑first features like an AI Trainer. The company reports cost savings and lower support costs.
Flipsnack shifted five US ChatGPT Ads campaigns from click-based bidding to conversion optimization, reporting ~310% more registrations and ~75% lower cost per signup. Results come from Flipsnack’s ChatGPT Ads Manager comparing Aug 25–31 and Sep 2–8, 2026.
Merge deploys GPT‑6 Astra, Codex and ChatGPT across product development, integrations and internal workflows, CEO Shensi Ding says. Merge reports tool-call reliability of 99.9% versus ~60% on public MCP servers and says an AI “dinner bot” cut planning to about 30 minutes per event.
Meta announced that Muse Voice video calling is now available to everyone in the U.S., powered by new Muse Realtime Avatar and Muse Realtime Voice models. The company said users can customize an animated avatar, nicknamed Jolly, and that support will roll out across devices.
NVIDIA released four open-weight Cosmos3-Nano checkpoints—Cosmos3-Nano-Transfer-Auto, Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Auto, Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Transfer and Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Bimanual—for multi-sensor driving and bimanual robot video prediction. Each model is a 16B-parameter, post-trained checkpoint distributed under
Anthropic launched Personal Finance for Claude on November 4, allowing users to link bank and credit card accounts via Plaid and ask spending questions. The company says access is read-only and conversations in the Personal Finance hub aren’t used to train models.
OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman said the company could be ready for an IPO in 2027, citing strong enterprise growth and a shift in revenue mix. He attributed a 70% quarterly increase in annualized revenue to enterprise deals and new client wins.
Google announced Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, which adds native 15-second video generation, multi-turn conversational editing, and improved reference adherence. The company said price was cut 30% to $0.07 per second for 720p and the model is generally available across Google Cloud and the Gemini API.