🎃 OpenAI rolls out Sora Monetization

Safety got a rethink with OpenAI’s gpt oss safeguard 120B and 20B. Unlike traditional classifiers trained on static datasets, these open-weight models ingest developer policy text alongside user input at inference and reason through multi-policy compliance in real time. Chain-of-thought (CoT) explanations make decisions auditable and tweakable on the fly.

Benchmarks show higher multi-policy accuracy than prior gpt-oss and GPT-5 models, though the interior Safety Reasoner stays barely ahead. Each models are on Hugging Face, with a hackathon scheduled for December 8.

Security gets an upgrade with Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered agentic researcher. It autonomously scans repositories, builds threat models, evaluates exploitability, and generates Codex-assisted patches for human review. Unlike static evaluation or fuzzing, Aardvark reasons about code like a human researcher, catching complex bugs, logic flaws, and privacy issues. Benchmarking shows 92% detection of known and artificial vulnerabilities, with multiple CVEs issued in open-source projects.

Content creation in Sora now supports character cameos, multi-clip video stitching, and paid generation credits. Users can insert reusable characters, monetize IP, and stitch longer narratives. Free generation limits are 30/day, with 1,000-credit packs available for $40. This builds a scalable creator economy while managing GPU demand. Infrastructure expands with a 1GW Stargate campus in Michigan, a part of a 4.5GW partnership with Oracle.

Finally, ChatGPT Atlas, powered by OWL (OpenAI Web Layer) architecture, decouples Chromium from the app, enabling fast startup, a whole bunch of tabs without slowdowns, isolated AI sessions, and rapid iteration via IPC-based integration and SwiftUI/AppKit workflows. Read more.

DeepMind has launched the AI for Math Initiative, targeting real theorem-level problem solving. Partnering with top institutions including Imperial College, IAS, IHES, Simons Institute, and TIFR, the project combines Gemini Deep Think for multi-step reasoning, AlphaEvolve for algorithm search, and AlphaProof for formal proof completion. Gemini scored gold on the IMO (35/42), while AlphaEvolve set a brand new record for 4×4 matrix multiplication and improved solutions in 20 percent of greater than 50 open problems.

Developers gain latest capabilities with AI Studio’s prompt-to-app generator, enabling rapid creation of multimodal apps powered by Gemini, Nano Banana image generation, and voice output. Android Studio now integrates Gemini-powered Agent Mode, allowing natural-language task description, automatic API updates, and on-device execution via Gemini Nano using the Prompt API. Kakao has used this to automate parcel processing, cutting order completion time by 24 percent and boosting new-user conversion 45 percent.

Creative workflows are expanding with Mixboard, now in 180+ countries with a quadrupled canvas, supporting multi-layered AI-assisted concept boards that mix user imagery, text, and Nano Banana-generated visuals.

NotebookLM has upgraded to a 1M-token context window, sixfold longer conversation memory, persistent secure histories, and configurable chat goals. Its enhanced retrieval and rating system synthesizes multiple sources to provide nuanced insights for literature review, strategy planning, or interactive storytelling, improving response quality by 50 percent. Read more.