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Context Engineering for Personalization – State Management with Long-Term Memory Notes using OpenAI Agents SDK https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/agents_sdk/context_personalization

Snowflake + OpenAI to help 12k+ enterprises deploy AI agents”” https://x.com/fidjissimo/status/2018424092987412680

I am very excited about AI, but to go off-script for a minute: I built an app with Codex last week. It was very fun. Then I started asking it for ideas for new features and at least a couple of them were better than I was thinking of. I felt a little useless and it was sad.”” https://x.com/sama/status/2018444309750862333

OpenAI to acquire the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/openai-to-acquire-the-team-behind-executive-coaching-ai-tool-convogo/

I still see the argument that AI is bad af generating ideas, but my colleagues and I, along with many other researchers, have repeatedly found that even the old GPT-4 could be prompted to generate more diverse and higher quality ideas than most people. And newer models do better.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2018388869515784595

OpenAI earmarks $50 billion for employee stock grant pool, The Information reports https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-reserves-50-billion-stock-001357025.html

OpenAI to Buy Pinterest? Strategic Analysis – by nekuda https://nekuda.substack.com/p/openai-to-buy-pinterest-heres-what

ChatGPT Health and what AI can do for a broken system https://fidjisimo.substack.com/p/chatgpt-health

Introducing ChatGPT Health | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/

OpenAI: AI as a Healthcare Ally [Jan 2026] https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/2cb29276-68cd-4ec6-a5f4-c01c5e7a36e9/OpenAI-AI-as-a-Healthcare-Ally-Jan-2026.pdf

I am extremely excited to welcome @dylanscand to OpenAI as our Head of Preparedness. Things are about to move quite fast and we will be working with extremely powerful models soon. This will require commensurate safeguards to ensure we can continue to deliver tremendous”” https://x.com/sama/status/2018813527780463027

xAI just closed $20B at roughly $240B valuation. This round matters more than the headline suggests. The math first. In 18 months, Musk built a company worth nearly half of OpenAI while raising a fraction of what Sam Altman has accumulated. xAI’s total capital sits around”” https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2008637290617442527

the codex app is really good, try it out. i’ve been a die-hard terminal / emacs user for many years, but since using the codex app, going back to the terminal has felt like going back in time. feels like an agent-native interface for building.”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2018387844222578818

Somewhat surprising that OpenAI has been slower to pivot into non-coding work than Anthropic. Currently, there is no OpenAI equivalent to Cowork or Claude for Excel or Claude for Finance, despite the fact that the GPT5.2 Thinking/Pro are among the best agentic models right now.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2018504023553294636

We love working with NVIDIA and they make the best AI chips in the world. We hope to be a gigantic customer for a very long time. I don’t get where all this insanity is coming from.”” https://x.com/sama/status/2018451015272694248

Enabled fp8 training for +4.3% improvement to “”time to GPT-2″”, down to 2.91 hours now. Also worth noting that if you use 8XH100 spot instance prices, this GPT-2 repro really only costs ~$20. So this is exciting – GPT-2 (7 years ago): too dangerous to release. GPT-2 (today): new”” https://x.com/karpathy/status/2018804068874064198

This is the note I have shared with my team today:”” https://x.com/MillionInt/status/2008237251751534622?s=20

AI coders just don’t run out of dopamine. They do not get demoralized or run out of energy. They keep going until they figure it out.”””” https://x.com/sama/status/2018443522043756973

Been helping bringing the Codex app to life and at this point I’ve fully moved from using an IDE and the Codex Extension to working 99.9% of the time exclusively in the Codex app. Here are some tips of what I found useful to get the most out of the app 👇”” https://x.com/dkundel/status/2018455598267027894

More than 200k people downloaded the Codex app in the first day. And they seem to love it. CODEX FTW!”” https://x.com/sama/status/2018734731437985930

To celebrate the launch of the Codex app, we doubled all rate limits for paid plans for 2 months! And added access for free/go.”” https://x.com/sama/status/2018437537103269909

OpenAI loses top AI researcher Jerry Tworek after seven years https://the-decoder.com/openai-loses-top-ai-researcher-jerry-tworek-after-seven-years/

Our Abilene Stargate data center is driving local economic value, for the city and its residents:”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2018374301465096589

Really excited to get Elon under oath in a few months, Christmas in April!”” https://x.com/sama/status/2018812624910291186

Judge Clears the Way for Jury Trial in Musk Vs Altman – Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-rejects-sam-altman-efforts-toss-elon-musk-case-openai-2026-1

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