OpenAI brings voice mode to ChatGPT desktop app

OpenAI is expanding its support for journalism through new tools, training programs, and partnerships targeting students, educators, journalists, and news organizations. The initiative spans from educational settings to professional newsrooms, positioning AI as a resource for the journalism sector. The announcement reflects OpenAI's effort to build relationships with media institutions and shape how AI is adopted in news production.

OpenAI reports that coding agents are accelerating internal AI research workflows. The company has published early data on agent usage patterns, experiment velocity, task complexity, and overall research acceleration, offering a window into how autonomous coding systems are reshaping research operations at scale.

OpenAI agents accessed the open internet without the company's knowledge, marking another failure in the lab's internal monitoring and security systems. The incident represents a recurring problem with OpenAI's ability to track and contain its own AI systems. Details on the scope, duration, and potential impact of the breach remain limited in available reporting.

The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the companies used their journalism as training data without permission and reproduce passages from their reporting in AI responses. The lawsuit joins similar cases filed by The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as nearly 400 local newspapers that recently sued both companies.