OpenAI is scouring the U.S. for sites to build a network of huge data centers to power its artificial intelligence technology, expanding beyond a flagship Texas location and looking across 16 states to accelerate the Stargate project championed by President Donald Trump.

OpenAI is actively evaluating U.S. states for its massive Stargate AI data center initiative, aiming to secure Americas lead in artificial intelligence against China. Chris Lehane, OpenAIs chief global affairs officer,

OpenAI plans to build more data centers in states like Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.

OpenAI announced this week its AI research assistant, which it calls “ deep research .” Powered by OpenAI’s o3-mini model (which was trained to use trial and error to find answers to complex questions), deep research is one of OpenAI’s first attempts at a real “agent” that’s capable of following instructions and working on its own.

OpenAI’s chief executive Sam Altman announced the release of its ‘deep research’ tool. Credit: Franck Robichon/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock. Tech giant OpenAI has unveiled a pay-for

Hugging Face researchers released an open source AI research agent called "Open Deep Research," created by an in-house team as a challenge 24 hours after the launch of OpenAI's Deep Research feature,

OpenAI announced plans to introduce ChatGPT to California State University's 460,000 students and 63,000 faculty members across 23 campuses, reports Reuters. The education-focused version of the AI assistant will aim to provide students with personalized tutoring and study guides,

ChatGPT users around the globe reported issues with the OpenAI chatbot late Wednesday, before the issue was resolved, according to the company.