ChatGPT picture generator is the name many users use for ChatGPT’s built-in image tool. It creates images from text prompts and can also support edits, depending on the version and account access.
Hilbert, an AI startup focused on automating growth decisions for enterprises, raised a $28 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz on April 15, 2026. The funding highlights investor appetite for AI tools that connect data, recommend actions and attach a dollar value to each decision.
State lawmakers are still moving ahead on AI regulation, with Utah emerging as a flashpoint as the Trump administration pushes for a single national standard and more than 1,000 AI-related proposals circulate in state capitols.
OpenAI has removed Sora 1 in the United States and made Sora 2 the default experience, ending access to the older video-generation system as it consolidates its generative AI video product.
Anthropic’s restricted Claude Mythos preview is emerging as a defining case study in how frontier AI is being commercialized: not as a mass-market chatbot, but as a tightly controlled cybersecurity tool released only to trusted partners.
OpenAI said GPT-5.5 is now rolling out to paid ChatGPT and Codex users, while GPT-5.5 Pro is landing for higher-tier customers as the company continues expanding its GPT-5 line into professional workflows.
The federal trial between Elon Musk and Sam Altman opened in Oakland on April 27, 2026, turning a long-running fight over OpenAI’s founding mission into a live test of the company’s for-profit conversion and governance. The case could affect how OpenAI is structured, who controls its direction, and how the company’s rapid commercialization is judged under its original nonprofit framework.
OpenAI introduced GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, extending a fast product cadence that has also brought new ChatGPT features, enterprise tools and a sharper push to keep users inside the company’s own stack.
OpenAI introduced workspace agents in ChatGPT on April 22, 2026, adding a research preview that lets organizations build shared agents for multi-step work such as reporting, lead outreach and software review.
OpenAI has published an April 2026 framework on AI and jobs, adding a new policy-focused marker to a year in which frontier AI deployment is spreading across consumer apps, enterprise tools and developer workflows.
