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Smartling, the AI-powered translation company, announces that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program for partners to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI. It brings together partners with deep industry expertise, delivery capabilities, and customer relationships while equipping them with resources, enablement, and support to help enterprises adopt OpenAI frontier models and products and turn them into measurable impact. Scale AI solutions As an OpenAI Select Partner, Smartling will continue working with OpenAI to help organizations build, deploy, and scale AI solutions responsibly and effectively. This work will help organizations get more useful work from every token and stronger performance per dollar with GPT–5.6, while using ChatGPT Work to turn ambitious goals into finished work. Smartling brings deep expertise in enterprise localization across all industries, translating billions of words a year into more than 450 languages and locales. Alongside the partnership, Smartling has also launched a plugin for ChatGPT, available through OpenAI's plugin directory, giving customers the complete power of Smartling, including its governance, quality controls, and linguistic infrastructure, directly within ChatGPT. Through the plugin, customers can translate text instantly with Smartling, applying their own glossary, style guide, and terminology; search and manage translation jobs; raise and resolve quality issues between reviewers and linguists; and pull word count and workflow reports, all without leaving the conversation. Most successful enterprises "The most successful enterprises in the world today are focused on outcomes delivered by AI solutions," said Bryan Murphy, CEO of Smartling. "This partnership brings together OpenAI's frontier AI and Smartling's expertise—transforming enterprises' ability to deliver quality global experiences at AI speed. Now, you can get the full power of Smartling, right inside ChatGPT: get an on brand translation, check a job's status, and resolve a quality flag, no tab switching required. The opportunity isn't simply faster translation. It's about helping companies dramatically accelerate how they enter markets, reach customers, and grow around the world." AI-powered translation Smartling supports organizations across every major industry with AI-powered translation, human linguist review, and workflow automation for the full range of content teams manage, from websites and apps to support content and marketing. Its work includes taking Marriott International's training content from 7 languages to 38 while trimming translation costs by 40%, and helping Pinterest reach 100 million people in 31 languages, cutting its time-to-market by 83%. Through the partnership, Smartling will continue expanding the use of OpenAI models across its LanguageAI platform, applying advances to translation quality, automation, and multilingual workflows. The goal: make it possible for enterprises to operate globally with the speed of AI without sacrificing the quality, brand integrity, governance, and control global businesses require.

OpenAI has announced a series of enhanced safety measures designed for under 18’s using ChatGPT to introduce controls that limit how “human” the chatbot can appear amid growing concerns about the use of AI among children. Those with the new teen account can disable voice responses to ensure the tool is understood as AI rather than a person. OpenAI is also introducing reminders for young people to take a break when using the tool to prompt healthier usage patterns. Reinforcing real-world relationships OpenAI has said the update was not triggered by any single incident but the update comes following a wider concern about people believing AI systems to be sentient with the company reinforcing protections that should ‘reflect developmental stage, reinforce real-world relationships and support healthier use over time.’ Teen accounts will become a default for anyone who identifies as under 18 during sign up, as well as for users OpenAI determines to be minors. Children under 13 remain unable to use the product. Heather Barnhart, Senior Digital Forensic Expert at Cellebrite and SANS DFIR Curriculum lead commented: “Technology policy makers are up against what could be the greatest generation in tech. AI adoption is being introduced across all sectors and the children who understand how AI works and how to use it responsibly will be at an advantage as AI increasingly becomes a life skill. With this in mind, regulation should prioritise educating children on how to use it safely and what potential red flags to look out for.” Providing direct answers “Parents, educators and social media companies need to take an active role in guiding children on use. This gets at the larger issue, which is parents having open conversations about the dangers that lurk online - and having concrete guardrails on what their kids are doing and how they’re interacting with technology that is having an active role in shaping every sector. With education and healthy engagement, families can help their children navigate the online world, responsibly and safely.” As part of this, OpenAI is also expanding its Study Mode which was launched last year to help students work through problems without providing direct answers and set specific hours where Study Mode will automatically activate. OpenAI has reported nine out of 10 of its younger users use it to help them with learning.

Yubico, the pioneer of phishing-resistant authentication and creator of the YubiKey – the gold standard of security keys – today announced an industry-first collaboration with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Beginning today, people can purchase a new two-pack set of custom YubiKeys as part of OpenAI’s Advanced Account Security programme – enabling them to secure their ChatGPT accounts with security keys, containing the strongest hardware-backed passkeys. Highest level of protection Specifically designed for security-conscious users who are at increased risk of targeted digital attacks, the set includes a YubiKey C NFC for tap-to-authenticate on mobile, and a low-profile YubiKey C Nano that stays in the user’s port for everyday laptop use – both packed with modern authentication features for the highest level of protection. With OpenAI already using YubiKeys internally to protect its employees and infrastructure from sophisticated phishing, it is now bringing the same level of account security to its users. This partnership between two industry leaders elevates protection for OpenAI user accounts through proven phishing-resistant, hardware-backed authentication – helping reduce the risk of account takeovers and making secure login simple. Hardware-backed authentication “We are introducing a new model for phishing-resistant security at scale for the AI ecosystem,” said Jerrod Chong, chief executive officer, Yubico. “This partnership with OpenAI delivers the highest level of protection against phishing with a low-friction user experience. Ultimately, our intent is to drastically reduce the threat of unauthorised access to sensitive data in OpenAI accounts worldwide. We are proud to partner with OpenAI to deliver YubiKeys – the leading security key that offers the strongest way to use passkeys – increasing protection of sensitive user data for the AI frontier.” Phishing-resistant protection “Security keys are one of the best ways to protect accounts from phishing, and Yubico has played a leading role in making that protection practical and accessible,” said Dane Stuckey, chief information security officer, OpenAI. “We’ve made YubiKeys a standard part of how we protect OpenAI employees, and with Advanced Account Security, we’re making it easier for ChatGPT users to choose that same kind of phishing-resistant protection when it’s right for them.” By combining Yubico's global scale and enterprise-grade reliability with OpenAI's commitment to user privacy and strong data security, this partnership expands the global adoption of YubiKeys – ensuring the future of AI is more secure against an evolving cyber threat landscape. Once enrolled, users benefit from the strongest account defence available today through a fast, passwordless experience. The YubiKey C NFC - OpenAI and YubiKey C Nano - OpenAI are available with exclusive pricing for existing OpenAI account holders.