Launched amid fierce competition from Google's new agent, this update aims to make AI more useful, reliable, and impactful for everyday users, developers, and enterprises alike.

The new chatbot model, called GPT-5.2, has improved from previous versions in building spreadsheets and presentations, coding, “perceiving images,” processing longer contexts and “handling complex, multistep projects,” OpenAI said.

And then there’s this from Paresh Dave and Arielle Pardes at Wired: in a survey called “Inside Google’s Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up with OpenAI,” the duo go over way stations on the way to Google’s current seemingly advantageous position.

A new technology release from OpenAI is supposed to top what Google recently produced. It also shows OpenAI is engaged in a new and more difficult competition.

The threat of legal action from Disney against Google comes as the company announces a partnership with OpenAI.

Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, Meta acquires AI wearable startup Limitless, Google and Xreal preview Android XR glasses, NY Times sues Perplexity.

The Walt Disney Company today accused Google of copyright infringement on a “massive scale” using AI models to “commercially exploit and distribute” its original content. At the same time as the scathing cease-and-desist letter, Disney announced it’s entering into a partnership with OpenAI.

After a string of disturbing mental health incidents involving AI chatbots, a group of state attorneys general sent a letter to the AI industry’s top companies, with a warning to fix “delusional outputs” or risk being in breach of state law.