Imran Aftab,@AI News | VentureBeat
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Tech leaders are rapidly deploying agentic AI, a cutting-edge technology poised to revolutionize the work ecosystem. These dynamic AI agents are designed to augment human decision-making, offering solutions to complex challenges across various industries. Companies are exploring these AI agents, recognizing their potential to take over labor-intensive tasks and provide real-time insights. However, the implementation requires careful consideration of training, testing, and guidance, similar to onboarding new employees.
Despite the enthusiasm surrounding agentic AI, concerns regarding security readiness persist. IT security leaders acknowledge the potential benefits of AI agents but express significant readiness gaps in deploying proper safeguards. To effectively manage these systems, a "human-in-the-loop" approach is crucial, ensuring accountability and risk mitigation. Organizations must establish collaborative frameworks that balance autonomy with robust oversight, aligning AI decisions with broader strategic goals and maintaining ethical standards.
To harness the full potential of agentic AI, organizations must prioritize AI fluency among their workforce. AI upskilling remains under-prioritized, with a surprisingly small percentage of staff receiving adequate training. Fostering a culture that embraces technological change through regular training about agentic AI, and highlighting its strengths and weaknesses is essential. Furthermore, role-based training can empower employees across different capacities to effectively utilize generative AI, promoting successful human-AI collaborations and ensuring that the workforce is prepared for this technological shift.
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- AI News | VentureBeat: Adopting agentic AI? Build AI fluency, redesign workflows, don’t neglect supervision
- www.zdnet.com: Tech leaders are seemingly rushing to deploy agentic AI - here's why
- Stack Overflow Blog: Christophe Coenraets, SVP of Developer Relations at Salesforce, tells Eira and Ben about building the new Salesforce Developer Edition, which includes access to the company’s agentic AI platform, Agentforce.
- techstrong.ai: American business executives are bullish on artificial intelligence (AI), and making their bets primarily on AI agents. In fact, more than a quarter plan AI-related budget increases of at least 26%, according to PwC's AI Agent Survey released Friday.
Tom Dotan@Newcomer
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OpenAI is facing an identity crisis, according to former research scientist Steven Adler, stemming from its history, culture, and contentious transition from a non-profit to a for-profit entity. Adler's insights, shared in a recent discussion, delve into the company's early development of GPT-3 and GPT-4, highlighting internal cultural and ethical disagreements. This comes as OpenAI's enterprise adoption accelerates, seemingly at the expense of its rivals, signaling a significant shift in the AI landscape.
OpenAI's recent $3 billion acquisition of Windsurf, an AI-native integrated development environment (IDE), underscores its urgent need to defend its territory in AI-powered coding against growing competition from Google and Anthropic. The move reflects OpenAI's imperative to equip developers with superior coding capabilities and secure a dominant position in the emerging agentic AI world. This deal is seen as a defensive maneuver as OpenAI finds itself on the back foot, needing to counter challenges from competitors who are making significant inroads in AI-assisted coding.
Meanwhile, tensions are reportedly simmering between OpenAI and Microsoft, its key partner. Negotiations are shaky, with Microsoft seeking a larger equity stake and retention of IP rights to OpenAI's models, while OpenAI aims to claw those rights back. These issues, along with disagreements over an AGI provision that allows OpenAI an out once it develops artificial general intelligence, have complicated OpenAI's plans for a for-profit conversion and the current effort to become a public benefit corporation. Furthermore, venture capitalists and limited partners are offloading shares in secondaries, which may come at a steep loss compared to 2021 valuations, adding another layer of complexity to OpenAI's current situation.
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- Kyle Wiggers ?: OpenAI’s enterprise adoption appears to be accelerating, at the expense of rivals
- venturebeat.com: OpenAI’s $3B Windsurf move: the real reason behind its enterprise AI code push
- The Cognitive Revolution: OpenAI's Identity Crisis: History, Culture & Non-Profit Control with ex-employee Steven Adler
- Newcomer: OpenAI's Simmering Microsoft Battle & VCs Offloading Shares in Secondaries
Chris McKay@Maginative
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OpenAI has released its latest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, designed to enhance reasoning and tool use within ChatGPT. These models aim to provide users with smarter and faster AI experiences by leveraging web search, Python programming, visual analysis, and image generation. The models are designed to solve complex problems and perform tasks more efficiently, positioning OpenAI competitively in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Greg Brockman from OpenAI noted the models "feel incredibly smart" and have the potential to positively impact daily life and solve challenging problems.
The o3 model stands out due to its ability to use tools independently, which enables more practical applications. The model determines when and how to utilize tools such as web search, file analysis, and image generation, thus reducing the need for users to specify tool usage with each query. The o3 model sets new standards for reasoning, particularly in coding, mathematics, and visual perception, and has achieved state-of-the-art performance on several competition benchmarks. The model excels in programming, business, consulting, and creative ideation.
Usage limits for these models vary, with o3 at 50 queries per week, and o4-mini at 150 queries per day, and o4-mini-high at 50 queries per day for Plus users, alongside 10 Deep Research queries per month. The o3 model is available to ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers, while the o4-mini models are used across ChatGPT Plus. OpenAI says o3 is also beneficial in generating and critically evaluating novel hypotheses, especially in biology, mathematics, and engineering contexts.
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- Simon Willison's Weblog: OpenAI are really emphasizing tool use with these: For the first time, our reasoning models can agentically use and combine every tool within ChatGPT—this includes searching the web, analyzing uploaded files and other data with Python, reasoning deeply about visual inputs, and even generating images. Critically, these models are trained to reason about when and how to use tools to produce detailed and thoughtful answers in the right output formats, typically in under a minute, to solve more complex problems.
- the-decoder.com: OpenAI’s new o3 and o4-mini models reason with images and tools
- venturebeat.com: OpenAI launches o3 and o4-mini, AI models that ‘think with images’ and use tools autonomously
- www.analyticsvidhya.com: o3 and o4-mini: OpenAI’s Most Advanced Reasoning Models
- www.tomsguide.com: OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models
- Maginative: OpenAI’s latest models—o3 and o4-mini—introduce agentic reasoning, full tool integration, and multimodal thinking, setting a new bar for AI performance in both speed and sophistication.
- THE DECODER: OpenAI’s new o3 and o4-mini models reason with images and tools
- Analytics Vidhya: o3 and o4-mini: OpenAI’s Most Advanced Reasoning Models
- www.zdnet.com: These new models are the first to independently use all ChatGPT tools.
- The Tech Basic: OpenAI recently released its new AI models, o3 and o4-mini, to the public. Smart tools employ pictures to address problems through pictures, including sketch interpretation and photo restoration.
- thetechbasic.com: OpenAI’s new AI Can “See†and Solve Problems with Pictures
- www.marktechpost.com: OpenAI Introduces o3 and o4-mini: Progressing Towards Agentic AI with Enhanced Multimodal Reasoning
- MarkTechPost: OpenAI Introduces o3 and o4-mini: Progressing Towards Agentic AI with Enhanced Multimodal Reasoning
- analyticsindiamag.com: Access to o3 and o4-mini is rolling out today for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users.
- THE DECODER: OpenAI is expanding its o-series with two new language models featuring improved tool usage and strong performance on complex tasks.
- gHacks Technology News: OpenAI released its latest models, o3 and o4-mini, to enhance the performance and speed of ChatGPT in reasoning tasks.
- www.ghacks.net: OpenAI Launches o3 and o4-Mini models to improve ChatGPT's reasoning abilities
- Data Phoenix: OpenAI releases new reasoning models o3 and o4-mini amid intense competition. OpenAI has launched o3 and o4-mini, which combine sophisticated reasoning capabilities with comprehensive tool integration.
- Shelly Palmer: OpenAI Quietly Reshapes the Landscape with o3 and o4-mini. OpenAI just rolled out a major update to ChatGPT, quietly releasing three new models (o3, o4-mini, and o4-mini-high) that offer the most advanced reasoning capabilities the company has ever shipped.
- THE DECODER: Safety assessments show that OpenAI's o3 is probably the company's riskiest AI model to date
- shellypalmer.com: OpenAI Quietly Reshapes the Landscape with o3 and o4-mini
- BleepingComputer: OpenAI details ChatGPT-o3, o4-mini, o4-mini-high usage limits
- TestingCatalog: OpenAI’s o3 and o4‑mini bring smarter tools and faster reasoning to ChatGPT
- simonwillison.net: Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
- bdtechtalks.com: What to know about o3 and o4-mini, OpenAI’s new reasoning models
- bdtechtalks.com: What to know about o3 and o4-mini, OpenAI’s new reasoning models
- thezvi.wordpress.com: OpenAI has finally introduced us to the full o3 along with o4-mini. Greg Brockman (OpenAI): Just released o3 and o4-mini! These models feel incredibly smart. We’ve heard from top scientists that they produce useful novel ideas. Excited to see their …
- thezvi.wordpress.com: OpenAI has upgraded its entire suite of models. By all reports, they are back in the game for more than images. GPT-4.1 and especially GPT-4.1-mini are their new API non-reasoning models.
- felloai.com: OpenAI has just launched a brand-new series of GPT models—GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano—that promise major advances in coding, instruction following, and the ability to handle incredibly long contexts.
- Interconnects: OpenAI's o3: Over-optimization is back and weirder than ever
- www.ishir.com: OpenAI has released o3 and o4-mini, adding significant reasoning capabilities to its existing models. These advancements will likely transform the way users interact with AI-powered tools, making them more effective and versatile in tackling complex problems.
- www.bigdatawire.com: OpenAI released the models o3 and o4-mini that offer advanced reasoning capabilities, integrated with tool use, like web searches and code execution.
- Drew Breunig: OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models offer enhanced reasoning capabilities in mathematical and coding tasks.
- TestingCatalog: OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini bring smarter tools and faster reasoning to ChatGPT
- www.techradar.com: ChatGPT model matchup - I pitted OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, GPT-4o, and GPT-4.5 AI models against each other and the results surprised me
- www.techrepublic.com: OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini models are available now to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users. Enterprise and education users will get access next week.
- Last Week in AI: OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding, OpenAI launches a pair of AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, Google’s newest Gemini AI model focuses on efficiency, and more!
- techcrunch.com: OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more.
- computational-intelligence.blogspot.com: OpenAI's new reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, are a step up in certain capabilities compared to prior models, but their accuracy is being questioned due to increased instances of hallucinations.
- www.unite.ai: unite.ai article discussing OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini new possibilities through multimodal reasoning and integrated toolsets.
- Unite.AI: On April 16, 2025, OpenAI released upgraded versions of its advanced reasoning models.
- Digital Information World: OpenAI’s Latest o3 and o4-mini AI Models Disappoint Due to More Hallucinations than Older Models
- techcrunch.com: TechCrunch reports on OpenAI's GPT-4.1 models focusing on coding.
- Analytics Vidhya: o3 vs o4-mini vs Gemini 2.5 pro: The Ultimate Reasoning Battle
- THE DECODER: OpenAI's o3 achieves near-perfect performance on long context benchmark.
- the-decoder.com: OpenAI's o3 achieves near-perfect performance on long context benchmark
- www.analyticsvidhya.com: AI models keep getting smarter, but which one truly reasons under pressure? In this blog, we put o3, o4-mini, and Gemini 2.5 Pro through a series of intense challenges: physics puzzles, math problems, coding tasks, and real-world IQ tests.
- Simon Willison's Weblog: This post explores the use of OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models for conversational AI, highlighting their ability to use tools in their reasoning process. It also discusses the concept of
- Simon Willison's Weblog: The benchmark score on OpenAI's internal PersonQA benchmark (as far as I can tell no further details of that evaluation have been shared) going from 0.16 for o1 to 0.33 for o3 is interesting, but I don't know if it it's interesting enough to produce dozens of headlines along the lines of "OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini hallucinate way higher than previous models"
- techstrong.ai: Techstrong.ai reports OpenAI o3, o4 Reasoning Models Have Some Kinks.
- www.marktechpost.com: OpenAI Releases a Practical Guide to Identifying and Scaling AI Use Cases in Enterprise Workflows
- Towards AI: OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models have demonstrated promising improvements in reasoning tasks, particularly their use of tools in complex thought processes and enhanced reasoning capabilities.
- Analytics Vidhya: In this article, we explore how OpenAI's o3 reasoning model stands out in tasks demanding analytical thinking and multi-step problem solving, showcasing its capability in accessing and processing information through tools.
- pub.towardsai.net: TAI#149: OpenAI’s Agentic o3; New Open Weights Inference Optimized Models (DeepMind Gemma, Nvidia…
- composio.dev: OpenAI o3 vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. o4-mini
- Composio: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini are out. They are two reasoning state-of-the-art models. They’re expensive, multimodal, and super efficient at tool use.
Ryan Priem@AI Accelerator Institute
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Google is significantly enhancing its Customer Engagement Suite with the addition of human-like AI agents, marking a new era in AI-powered customer interactions. Announced at Cloud Next 2025, the update focuses on creating more interactive and personalized experiences through its Conversational Agent product. These enhancements include improved voice comprehension, emotional intelligence, and streaming video support, enabling the bots to adapt better to real-time conversations and even "see" service tickets presented via customer devices. This move aims to make AI agents more accessible and easier to deploy, transforming how businesses engage with their customers across all touchpoints.
Google's upgraded Conversational Agents now leverage the latest Gemini models, including Gemini 2.5 Flash, to achieve a more human-like sound, higher comprehension levels, and the ability to understand emotion. To further streamline the agent development process, Google is introducing an AI assistant with a no-code interface and an Agent Development Kit. The suite also includes new connector tools that allow the software to perform specific tasks like product lookups, adding items to shopping carts, and processing checkouts through API calls. These additions reflect Google's commitment to providing organizations with the resources needed to build and deploy advanced conversational AI agents effectively.
Launched in September 2024, Google’s Customer Engagement Suite is positioned as an AI-powered platform designed to help organizations deliver better customer experiences. With these new enhancements, Google intensifies its competition with other customer experience (CX) players such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Intercom, and Amazon Web Services, all of whom are integrating AI to improve customer service through various channels like chat, voice, and video. Duncan Lennox, Google’s vice president and general manager of applied AI, highlighted the transformative potential of AI agents, stating that they enable new levels of hyper-personalized, multimodal conversations with customers, ultimately improving customer interactions across all touchpoints.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT has achieved a major milestone, now boasting over 400 million weekly active users. This growth reflects the platform's increasing adoption by both individual consumers and enterprise clients. The number of paying enterprise users has doubled since September, reaching 2 million. This surge is attributed to users recommending ChatGPT to their workplaces, with companies recognizing its potential as a time-saving tool.
OpenAI is also expanding the availability of its "Operator" AI agent, granting access to ChatGPT Pro subscribers in countries like Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. This AI agent can independently operate a web browser and perform tasks for users. Additionally, OpenAI has taken action against malicious activities by removing accounts suspected of being used for surveillance and opinion-influence operations, particularly those originating from China and North Korea. These measures underscore OpenAI's commitment to broadening access while safeguarding against misuse.
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- siliconangle.com: OpenAI reaches 400M weekly active users, doubles enterprise customer base
- the-decoder.com: OpenAI rolls out Operator to more countries
- www.eweek.com: OpenAI Hits 400M Weekly Active Users for ChatGPT: “Like Cloud Services�
- SiliconANGLE: OpenAI reaches 400M weekly active users, doubles enterprise customer base
- Maginative: OpenAI’s Growth Shows No Signs of Slowing, Now Serving 400 Million Users
- Analytics India Magazine: ChatGPT Surpasses 400 Million Weekly Active Users, OpenAI Plans GPT-5 Launch
- the-decoder.com: ChatGPT reaches more than 400 million weekly users, according to OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap. The article appeared first on .
- eWEEK: OpenAI Hits 400M Weekly Active Users for ChatGPT: “Like Cloud Services”
- analyticsindiamag.com: ChatGPT Surpasses 400 Million Weekly Active Users, OpenAI Plans GPT-5 Launch
- venturebeat.com: OpenAI’s ChatGPT explodes to 400M weekly users, with GPT-5 on the way
- techcrunch.com: OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries
- techxmedia.com: OpenAI Hits 400M Weekly Users, Doubles Paid Subscriptions
- Maginative: AI in Higher Ed: 7 Major Takeaways from OpenAI’s ChatGPT Student Usage Report
- Dataconomy: 400 million users later OpenAI still has a major problem
- The Tech Portal: OpenAI expands its ‘Operator’ AI agent in several countries, including India
- Dataconomy: OpenAI announced on Friday the rollout of Operator, its AI agent designed to perform tasks on behalf of users, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.K., and additional countries.
- Shelly Palmer: OpenAI has expanded access to its Deep Research tool – originally exclusive to users with a $200 Pro subscription – to Plus, Team, Edu, and Enterprise plan subscribers.
- AIwire: OpenAI announced it has expanded access to its Deep Research, its new AI agent designed to conduct complex research.
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