AI Weekly Malaysia

Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.

OpenAI shares updates on its mental health safety work, including parental controls, trusted contacts, improved distress detection, and recent litigation developments.

OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory introduce DraftNEPABench, a new benchmark evaluating how AI coding agents can accelerate federal permitting—showing potential to reduce NEPA drafting time by up to 15% and modernize infrastructure reviews.

OpenAI and Figma launch a new Codex integration that connects code and design, enabling teams to move between implementation and the Figma canvas to iterate and ship faster.

Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense.

OpenAI appoints Arvind KC as Chief People Officer to help scale the company, strengthen its culture, and lead how work evolves in the age of AI.

SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.

OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners to help enterprises move from AI pilots to production with secure, scalable agent deployments.

We share our AI model’s proof attempts for the First Proof math challenge, testing research-grade reasoning on expert-level problems.

OpenAI commits $7.5M to The Alignment Project to fund independent AI alignment research, strengthening global efforts to address AGI safety and security risks.

OpenAI for India expands AI access across the country—building local infrastructure, powering enterprises, and advancing workforce skills.

OpenAI and Paradigm introduce EVMbench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents’ ability to detect, patch, and exploit high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities.

A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.

Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfiltration.

How OpenAI built a real-time access system combining rate limits, usage tracking, and credits to power continuous access to Sora and Codex.

GABRIEL is a new open-source toolkit from OpenAI that uses GPT to turn qualitative text and images into quantitative data, helping social scientists analyze research at scale.

Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.

By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff