OpenAI announced College Planner for US high-school students and new study features in ChatGPT for Teens. The company also pledged support for Boston Children’s Hospital research and a College Advising Corps expansion to help students navigate applications.
OpenAI will place visual display ads next to images users ask ChatGPT to generate, starting later this month in the U.S. only. The company is expanding measurement partnerships and piloting brand-suitability checks as it develops an ad-supported model for free and low-cost plans.
OpenAI announced textGrain, an invisible watermarking system for model-generated text to comply with the EU AI Act. API customers can opt in globally; eligible ChatGPT and Codex outputs in the EU will receive invisible watermarks. OpenAI warns of detection limits.
Albertsons Companies is broadening its use of OpenAI tools across operations and customer experiences, including a new Safeway shopping feature inside ChatGPT. The rollout uses ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API and will extend to multiple grocery banners.
OpenAI dismissed three members of its safety team after an internal probe found they mishandled sensitive information, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company did not disclose the researchers, the third-party group, or the material involved.
invideo says GPT‑6 Astra can plan edits with frame‑level accuracy, improve color‑grading and correction success about threefold, and produce roughly 50 custom effects in a single day. Sanket Shah, CEO of invideo, highlighted fewer reasoning steps and stronger task retention.
OpenAI released MentalHealthBench on September 23, 2026: an open benchmark co-created with more than 80 licensed mental health experts to assess model responses across realistic mental health dialogues. It uses expert-written rubrics and an automated grader, GPT‑5.6 Sol.
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, a pact that depends on delivery and availability conditions. Akamai expects initial revenue in 2027 and may invest $5.5 billion to build capacity; the agreement includes a convertible-warrant tied to spending.
OpenAI and Grab announced GO Forward with AI, a two-year programme to help 30,000 Grab driver, delivery and merchant partners develop practical AI skills. It begins in Singapore and will expand to Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines this year, then Malaysia and Vietnam in 2027.
Nscale announced $3.36 billion in convertible financing ahead of a planned US IPO. The round, led by Third Point with $1B from Nvidia due in mid-November, will convert to equity once the IPO is completed.