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2026-04-17

Accelerating the cyber defense ecosystem that protects us all

Leading security firms and enterprises join OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber, using GPT-5.4-Cyber and $10M in API grants to strengthen global cyber defense.

Source: OpenAI Blog

Top Stories

The next evolution of the Agents SDK

OpenAI updates the Agents SDK with native sandbox execution and a model-native harness, helping developers build secure, long-running agents across files and tools.

Read more at OpenAI Blog

OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop

OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.

Read more at TechCrunch AI

Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research

OpenAI introduces GPT-Rosalind, a frontier reasoning model built to accelerate drug discovery, genomics analysis, protein reasoning, and scientific research workflows.

Read more at OpenAI Blog

Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report

AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third funding round since launching just seven months ago.

Read more at TechCrunch AI

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught

The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

Read more at TechCrunch AI

Quick Bytes

Anthropic CPO leaves Figma’s board after reports he will offer a competing productTechCrunch AI

Why having “humans in the loop” in an AI war is an illusionMIT Tech Review

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