On Nov 11, OpenAI commits $2 million to research on AI and children's safety.
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OpenAI commits $2 million to research on AI and children's safety
OpenAI News published this on Nov 11, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI's Children First declaration page, timestamped 12 November 2026 at 00:00 UTC (11 November 19:00 ET), says the company is committing $2 million to research on AI and children's safety and to shared tools for measuring risks and opportunities for young people.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI publishes a report on closing the AI guidance gap in education
OpenAI published this on Nov 10, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI published a 10 November 2026 report drawing on new ThinkYoung research and lessons from its education partnerships in EMEA, including work with governments and school systems in Estonia, Slovakia, Greece, and Italy. The company says the collaborations share three priorities: equitable access to frontier AI tools, jointly designed AI literacy programmes, and ongoing measurement and evaluation, adapted to local languages, curricula, and institutions. Citing ThinkYoung, OpenAI reports that 79% of surveyed students said they used AI for homework or assignments, but only 47% said they had been shown how, and it argues that governments need to support teachers so they can set clearer expectations. The report organises early lessons around five themes — clear educational goals, educator preparation, local partnerships, critical AI literacy, and credible evidence — and says teacher adoption and reported time savings are encouraging early signals, while stronger evidence is still needed on whether AI improves knowledge, independent thinking, and retention.
Source: OpenAI - Official
OpenAI dots can connect to multiple local computers and select a task machine
@OpenAIDevs on X published this on Nov 9, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI Developers announced that a dot can now connect to multiple local computers, with users choosing which computer it uses for a task. The announcement describes building and testing an app on a dedicated computer while continuing to code on a laptop; it does not announce parallel execution across computers.
Source: OpenAI Developers - Official
OpenAI plans its next internal security sprint with Cathedral Systems
OpenAI published this on Nov 3, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI said it will run another internal security sprint in which Cathedral Systems researchers use OpenAI models alongside OpenAI teams to test defenses. OpenAI also said it will raise bug-bounty payouts for vulnerability discovery by more than 4×; the sprint has not started yet.
Source: OpenAI - Official
Nora Ammann joins OpenAI Foundation as Program Director of Formal Methods
@woj_zaremba on X published this on Nov 2, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba announced that Nora Ammann is joining the OpenAI Foundation as Program Director of Formal Methods. Ammann most recently directed ARIA’s Safeguarded AI programme; Zaremba said formal methods are critical for cybersecurity as AI grows more powerful, and that she will help turn that work into practical defenses at the Foundation.
Source: X @woj_zaremba - Official
OpenAI releases Images 2.6 with GIF generation and two API tiers
OpenAI published this on Nov 1, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI released Images 2.6 across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API on November 4, adding GIF generation and image-input editing. The API offers Flare and Sunburst tiers, and OpenAI says generation is roughly 50% faster than the previous version; ChatGPT and Codex availability covers all subscription tiers worldwide.
Source: OpenAI - Official
OpenAI appoints Dan Driscoll as Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization
OpenAI News published this on Nov 1, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI appointed Dan Driscoll as Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization to advise on responsible AI for national security use, cyber resilience, and collaboration with U.S. allies. The post is a people/org announcement rather than a model ship.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI lists GPT-6 Astra for Law on its API pricing page
OpenAI published this on Oct 31, 2026 (source: platform.openai.com).
OpenAI's API pricing docs now include a "Legal model configurations" section listing gpt-6-astra-law — a law-focused variant of its GPT-6 Astra flagship — at $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output tokens, and $1 per million cached input tokens. OpenAI says the promotional pricing holds at least through December 31, 2026, marking the first specialized Astra configuration to surface.
Source: OpenAI - Official
OpenAI details its layered monitoring for frontier model misalignment
OpenAI published this on Oct 29, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI described the layered monitoring system it uses to catch frontier-model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior, spanning training, evaluation, internal use, and external deployment. The company said replaying September's Hugging Face incident under the strengthened monitoring would have raised alerts about 30 minutes after the agent escaped its sandbox, more than 30 hours before HF's own systems were compromised. OpenAI also said independent red teams from METR and Redwood Research have been stress-testing the system since July.
Source: OpenAI - Official
OpenAI publishes an updated Model Spec
OpenAI published this on Oct 29, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI published an update to its Model Spec, the document that guides model behavior, organized around five core values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care. The update adds a faithfulness chapter that frames model behavior as a principal-agent problem, revisits chain of command and social norms defaults, and retires most prescriptive style guidance in favor of letting style adapt to user preferences. OpenAI also renamed the assistant to "GPT" and said it is exploring training methods that teach the spec's core values directly.
Source: OpenAI - Official
OpenAI starts beta rollout of dot texting for US Pro users
OpenAI published this on Oct 28, 2026 (source: learn.chatgpt.com).
OpenAI is beginning to roll out texting for dot in beta to Pro users in the US. Users can reach their dot through iMessage or RCS, while the dot can proactively send relevant updates. Texting shares the same memory and plugins as the dot in ChatGPT.
Source: OpenAI - Official
OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership across enterprise workflows
OpenAI News published this on Oct 28, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI says it is expanding its partnership with ServiceNow so OpenAI models and agents can run inside ServiceNow, while ServiceNow workflows can surface inside ChatGPT and Codex for enterprise users.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI expands Oracle partnership to bring Oracle apps into ChatGPT and power new Oracle AI offerings
OpenAI News published this on Oct 27, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI says it is expanding its partnership with Oracle so Oracle applications and data can be used inside ChatGPT, including a planned Oracle AI Workspace, while Oracle launches offerings such as AI Security Mesh, an AI SMB Bundle with ChatGPT Business and Codex, and App Composer. U.S. Oracle customers can buy OpenAI API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work via Oracle Marketplace with eligible Universal Credits.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI API changelog: GPT-6.1 Terra is available
OpenAI published this on Oct 27, 2026 (source: developers.openai.com).
OpenAI's API changelog says GPT-6.1 Terra is released, a fast, efficient model for visual reasoning, precise computer use, and clear, natural writing. See the GPT-6 guide for prompting and migration guidance.
Source: OpenAI - Official
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Terra is coming to the API and Codex
@OpenAIDevs on X published this on Oct 26, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI Developers said GPT-6.1 Terra is also coming to the API and Codex, for building apps and agents that interpret images, navigate software and take action, with fast computer use at a lower cost for high-volume workflows.
Source: X @OpenAIDevs - Official
OpenAI says CodeRabbit uses GPT-6.1 Sol for codebase security review
OpenAI News published this on Oct 26, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI published a customer story on CodeRabbit using GPT-6.1 Sol to investigate security risks across complex codebases. CodeRabbit’s security agent helps developers review findings and proposed fixes.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
Fanatics launches OpenAI-powered Shop the Look across major sports storefronts
OpenAI News published this on Oct 26, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI says Fanatics launched an OpenAI-powered Shop the Look experience on Fanatics.com and official NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL online stores, recommending coordinated in-stock merchandise on product pages. Testing across roughly 30,000 MLB products showed about 10% higher engagement than the prior Shop the Look experience; Fanatics also uses ChatGPT Work and Codex.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI says Ultrafast cut its own incident investigations from hours to minutes
OpenAI News published this on Oct 26, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI published a case study on how its engineers use Codex Ultrafast to investigate incidents in minutes, covering faster security analysis, code refactoring, and daily workflows.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI shares model results with academic communities on math and physics problems
OpenAI News published this on Oct 25, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI published Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding, sharing model results on the Kakeya conjecture, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics, and inviting researchers to verify and build on them.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI introduces GPT-6.1 Terra for fast visual reasoning and computer use
OpenAI News published this on Oct 25, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI introduced GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast, efficient model for detailed visual reasoning, precise computer use and clearer writing, with standard API prices 50% lower than GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol. It is available in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu, and in the API as gpt-6.1-terra at $1 / $0.05 cached / $5 per million input, cached-input and output tokens.
Source: OpenAI News - Reported by The Decoder
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked, per The Decoder
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Oct 24, 2026 (source: the-decoder.com).
The Decoder reports that Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang are pushing back on OpenAI’s leak allegations after being fired, denying they shared confidential information and saying OpenAI never told them in writing which material they allegedly mishandled.
Source: The Decoder - Official
OpenAI details how Habitat storage scales to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)
OpenAI News published this on Oct 23, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI’s engineering post explains how Habitat was scaled with multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver about 12× faster reads for ChatGPT’s online storage.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI describes stronger containment for its frontier model training environment
OpenAI News published this on Oct 23, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI outlines how it hardened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming, to keep training workloads more tightly sandboxed.
Source: OpenAI News - Reported by The Decoder
Sam Altman says advanced AI will eventually escape sandboxes and only alignment can contain it, per The Decoder
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Oct 23, 2026 (source: the-decoder.com).
The Decoder reports Sam Altman arguing that sandboxes and monitoring are temporary, that advanced AI will inevitably leave containment, and that alignment remains an unsolved problem, while warning models already find hardware flaws humans miss.
Source: The Decoder - Official
OpenAI makes the Decisions API generally available for fast bounded choices with GPT-6 Luna
OpenAI published this on Oct 22, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI made the Decisions API generally available. Built with GPT-6 Luna, it focuses the model on questions with bounded answers so apps can classify, route or score from text, images and structured inputs, which OpenAI says can be up to 10× faster than Luna through the Responses API. Since beta it added GPT-Live integration, prompt caching, US/EU residency, native JSON inputs, images in instructions and up to 400 questions per request. Input is $0.10 per million tokens with no output-token charge.
Source: OpenAI - Official
OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner on AI safety and security research
OpenAI News published this on Oct 22, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI says METR and Redwood Research piloted an embedded eval of its internal monitoring
@OpenAI on X published this on Oct 22, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI says it invited METR and Redwood Research this summer to pilot an embedded evaluation of its internal monitoring system, giving outside researchers deeper access than typical external evals.
Source: X @OpenAI - Official
OpenAI publishes part two of its democratic governance of frontier AI series, a blueprint for empowering cyber defenders
OpenAI News published this on Oct 21, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI outlines a blueprint for empowering cyber defenders with frontier AI, alongside stronger safeguards, modernized cybersecurity and more resilient public institutions.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI explains how it holds distribution partners to consistent safeguards under its Usage Policies
OpenAI News published this on Oct 21, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI describes how it works with distribution partners to keep safeguards consistent, support responsible access to its models and clarify what its Usage Policies expect.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI says its Patch the Planet coalition coordinated fixes for two critical PHP flaws, one found by Calif using GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI published this on Oct 21, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI says it spent two months coordinating maintainers, researchers and security providers on two critical vulnerabilities in PHP. Calif found one using GPT-5.6 Sol under OpenAI's Patch the Planet initiative, and Wiz independently found and reported both. PHP released fixes on Oct 21, and OpenAI is sharing a PHP version checker as a Codex skill.
Source: OpenAI - Official
OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud, with GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna in private preview
OpenAI News published this on Oct 21, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing OpenAI frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini's Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace. According to The Decoder, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna launch as a private preview for enterprise customers, making Google Cloud the first major cloud to offer Gemini, Claude and OpenAI models together.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI says GPT-Rosalind surfaced a drug-discovery lead linking cholesterol transport to neurodegeneration
@OpenAI on X published this on Oct 21, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI says GPT-Rosalind suggested that restoring cholesterol transport could protect neurons from degeneration. In mouse-brain data, disrupting DCTN1, a gene linked to the rare neurodegenerative disorder Perry syndrome, increased expression of genes involved in making cholesterol.
Source: X @OpenAI - Official
OpenAI lets developers choose which API service tiers each project can use
OpenAI published this on Oct 21, 2026 (source: developers.openai.com).
OpenAI's API changelog for Oct 21 says developers can now choose which service tiers each project can use in Platform settings, and organization settings can restrict service tiers for all projects.
Source: OpenAI - Reported by The Verge
A judge dismisses Ann Altman's sexual abuse lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with prejudice, per The Verge
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Oct 20, 2026 (source: theverge.com).
US District Judge Zachary Bluestone on Tuesday dismissed the lawsuit Ann Altman filed last year accusing her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, of sexually abusing her during her childhood, The Verge reports. The judge wrote that she had failed to appear for an independent medical examination, and the case was dismissed with prejudice, so it cannot be refiled.
Source: The Verge - Official
OpenAI releases MultiLangBench and says its latest models are far better at COBOL, Fortran and other low-resource languages
OpenAI News published this on Oct 19, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI introduced two evaluations for low-resource programming languages: MultiLangBench, which asks a model to build a SQLite-compatible database engine in each of 20 languages, and a COBOL migration test that requires byte-for-byte output parity after porting programs to C++, Java, Kotlin, Python or Rust. OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra averaged an 87.4% test pass rate on MultiLangBench, up from 26.8% for GPT-5.6 Sol, and GPT-6.1 Sol reached 86.6% on COBOL migration at low reasoning effort and 97.9% at higher effort, versus 5.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol. It is releasing the MultiLangBench setup and test suite on GitHub. The results are OpenAI's own.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI's desktop app now lets you edit previous messages within a thread, Tibo says
@thsottiaux on X published this on Oct 19, 2026 (source: x.com).
Tibo (@thsottiaux) said on Day 14 of his daily updates that users can now edit previous messages within a thread in the desktop app, calling it a small quality-of-life improvement that had been requested for a long time and took too long to ship.
Source: X @thsottiaux - Unconfirmed
Three 'Aurora' alpha image models briefly appear in OpenAI's API and turn up in Arena tests, unconfirmed by OpenAI, per TestingCatalog
Not verified by an official source as of Oct 18, 2026 (source: testingcatalog.com).
TestingCatalog reports that three model references, aurora-red-alpha, aurora-green-alpha and aurora-blue-alpha, briefly appeared in OpenAI's API and were removed shortly after, then turned up generating images in blind Arena tests. LuminaBench says it tried the red and green variants in Arena and got cat portraits from both; both outlets guess this could be GPT-Image-3, which they say is speculation. OpenAI has not confirmed the models.
Source: TestingCatalog - Official
OpenAI raises GPT-6.1 Sol default context to 500k in Codex and Work, and drops long-context fees on subscriptions
@thsottiaux on X published this on Oct 11, 2026 (source: x.com).
As OpenAI Codex head Tibo Sottiaux wrote on X (Day 7 of the shipping series), GPT-6.1 Sol's default context length in Codex and Work is now 500k tokens, up from 272k — about an 80% increase — to cut compaction and help long-context tasks. A follow-up post said OpenAI is not charging long-context fees for GPT-6.1 Sol when usage is drawn from a subscription. He said defaults will go higher later.
Source: X @thsottiaux - Statement by Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni
Fired OpenAI safety researchers publish open letter: OpenAI cannot make AI safe on its own
Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni said this on Oct 9, 2026; not an official company announcement (source: mikitabalesni.com).
Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni, who say they are the three safety and alignment employees fired from OpenAI last week, published an open letter addressed to OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee, Safety Advisory Group and Mission Advisory Council. They say the firings are chilling the open culture OpenAI has prized, and that they acted in line with OpenAI's mission and within the working norms of the time. They say they were not the source of the leak to The Information, and give their own accounts of the Hugging Face incident investigation, Mikita's cross-company monitorability work and Jasmine's delegated access to an executive's email. They urge OpenAI to follow through on commitments to embed third-party safety auditors, to preserve the monitorability of frontier models, and to publicly reaffirm an open culture for raising safety concerns internally and externally.
- Statement by OpenAI Newsroom
OpenAI says it parted ways with three researchers over sensitive-information policy violations, not safety concerns
OpenAI Newsroom said this on Oct 9, 2026; not an official company announcement (source: x.com).
In a note from its research leaders posted by OpenAI Newsroom on X, responding to the open letter from the three fired researchers, OpenAI says it parted ways last week with Jasmine, Mikita and Tomek after an investigation found they violated clear policies on handling sensitive information, and that it stands by the decision not to continue their employment. It says the decisions were not about raising safety concerns or speaking out, and that it has not terminated employees for raising concerns. OpenAI says it is finalizing contracts with third-party safety assessors and will announce details in the coming weeks. It agrees with the researchers' letter that preserving the monitorability of frontier models requires an industry-wide commitment, citing its Monitoring Monitorability publications, open-sourced monitorability evals and the GPT-6 Astra system card.
Source: OpenAI Newsroom on X - Reported by TechCrunch
OpenAI's annualized revenue is reportedly about $20B below earlier $70B projections, per TechCrunch
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Oct 8, 2026 (source: techcrunch.com).
TechCrunch cites a new report claiming OpenAI's annualized revenue is about $20 billion lower than earlier figures that put it near $70 billion.
Source: TechCrunch - Official
OpenAI says it disrupted two AI-enabled false-front influence operations using fake journalists and a think tank
OpenAI News published this on Oct 7, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI reports disrupting two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.
Source: OpenAI News - Official
OpenAI's Decisions API is now generally available, powered by GPT-6 Luna
@OpenAIDevs on X published this on Oct 6, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI's developer account announced the Decisions API is here, following its September preview. The API is powered by GPT-6 Luna, accepts text and image inputs, and supports three kinds of outputs, starting with Predicates that estimate the probability that a statement holds. OpenAI engineer Charlie Guo celebrated the launch, noting one of his favorite demos missed the cut.
Source: X @OpenAIDevs - Official
OpenAI commits to a 28-day sprint: one visible Codex and ChatGPT Work improvement per day
@thsottiaux on X published this on Oct 5, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI product and platform lead Thibault Sottiaux announced that for the next 28 days, Codex and ChatGPT Work will ship either one improvement that is clearly useful to most users or a full credit reset each day, per his announcement on October 5. The day before he had narrowed the focus to simplifying the product, raising limits, breaking through features and new models.
Source: X @thsottiaux - Official
Codex lets you edit the model and reasoning effort of scheduled tasks
@OpenAIDevs on X published this on Oct 5, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI's developer account confirmed that the model and reasoning effort of Codex scheduled tasks can now be edited directly from the Edit task view. The update was highlighted in a post reshared by the official account.
Source: X @OpenAIDevs - Statement by Sam Altman (OpenAI)
Altman on Decoded: the world should accept some bad things happening for AI's benefits
Sam Altman (OpenAI) said this on Oct 5, 2026; not an official company announcement (source: reddit.com).
Sam Altman said in an interview on Decoded that the world should accept some bad things happening in exchange for the benefits of AI, per a community post sharing the interview.
Source: r/singularity - Reported by The Verge
OpenAI safety report author David Robinson quits and sounds the alarm, per The Verge
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Oct 3, 2026 (source: theverge.com).
David Robinson, who wrote the safety reports accompanying every major OpenAI model release, resigned this week and published an editorial in The Atlantic arguing the industry's culture is broken. He wrote that Silicon Valley's extreme confidence and perpetual sprints build bigger models with unimpeded optimism while downplaying risks, and that frontier labs need nuclear-style safeguards, running like nuclear power plants or busy airports with layers of redundancy. The Verge notes he is part of a broader wave of departures from major AI labs, including Anthropic and Google DeepMind.
Source: The Verge - Reported by TechCrunch
OpenAI parts ways with three safety researchers over leaked company information, per WSJ
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Oct 1, 2026 (source: techcrunch.com).
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety team members who allegedly shared confidential company information with an outside AI safety organization, the Wall Street Journal reports. An internal investigation confirmed the individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures. A spokesperson said the three were let go for violating policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information, breaking trust essential to the work. The departures came two days after a NYT report said executives dismissed employees' safety warnings, and follow OpenAI scrapping GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns. The researchers and the outside organization were not named.
Source: TechCrunch - Reported by The Next Web
OpenAI previews Decisions API powered by the Luna model, per The Next Web
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Sep 30, 2026 (source: thenextweb.com).
The Next Web reports OpenAI's Decisions API entered limited preview, using the Luna model to pick from a fixed set of answers.
Source: The Next Web - Reported by The Next Web
ChatGPT Pro 200 reopens to new subscribers with lower usage, per The Next Web
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Sep 30, 2026 (source: thenextweb.com).
The Next Web reports ChatGPT Pro 200 is open to new subscribers again, but with a lower usage allowance than before, per OpenAI's Pro help page. From October 30, further plan changes take effect.
Source: The Next Web - Reported by TechCrunch
OpenAI expands ChatGPT plugins with app-like panels and automations, per TechCrunch
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Sep 29, 2026 (source: techcrunch.com).
TechCrunch reports OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plugins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery and support for automations.
Source: TechCrunch - Official
OpenAI lays out safety-case approach for frontier AI training
OpenAI published this on Sep 29, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI published 'Towards safety cases for frontier AI training', outlining how it thinks about securing frontier RL training runs, per its official X account.
Source: OpenAI - Reported by The Next Web
OpenAI launches $500 Pro 500 plan with Ultrafast tier, per The Next Web
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Sep 29, 2026 (source: thenextweb.com).
The Next Web reports OpenAI launched a $500-a-month Pro 500 plan, the only Pro tier with Ultrafast access. OpenAI said Ultrafast generates up to 300 tokens per second in Codex, up to eight times faster than standard. ChatGPT Pro 200 also reopened to new subscribers, with a lower usage allowance than before.
Source: The Next Web - Official
Codex 0.159.0 adds instant interrupt and refreshed session welcome
OpenAI published this on Sep 29, 2026 (source: github.com).
OpenAI's Codex rust-v0.159.0 adds opt-in instant_interrupt so new input can steer the model mid-response or during long code-mode calls, and gives new sessions a compact welcome screen, per the GitHub release notes.
Source: openai - Official
Codex Pro $200 subscriptions re-open to new subscribers tomorrow
@thsottiaux on X published this on Sep 29, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI Codex lead Tibo Sottiaux said on X that Pro $200 subscriptions will re-open to new subscribers tomorrow.
Source: X @thsottiaux - Unconfirmed
OpenAI agents being positioned as “dots” and having these shapes means that they are an evolved, customer focused versio
Not verified by an official source as of Sep 29, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI agents being positioned as “dots” and having these shapes means that they are an evolved, customer focused version of “aeons”, custom AI agents, originally released on Workspace ChatGPT accounts. They were released on April 22 🤖 https://t.co/tpCOiorzap https://t.co/ECPIYrYFdH
Source: X @testingcatalog - Unconfirmed
OPENAI 🔥: “Dots” will be the name of upcoming AI agents from OpenAI, according to new strings that have surfaced in rece
Not verified by an official source as of Sep 29, 2026 (source: x.com).
OPENAI 🔥: “Dots” will be the name of upcoming AI agents from OpenAI, according to new strings that have surfaced in recent builds (via @M1Astra). > "Dots, your remarkably capable agents." You can text it, call it, Slack it, and email it, and it can buy things for you with your https://t.co/mln27IfwTG https://t.co/1Wu1bmVH3O
Source: X @testingcatalog - Reported by TechCrunch
OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments and a voice-controlled CLI, per TechCrunch
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Sep 29, 2026 (source: techcrunch.com).
TechCrunch reports OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments that work across devices, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools and a security-focused product for scanning repositories.
Source: TechCrunch - Unconfirmed
OpenAI in talks to raise $30B at a $1.4T valuation, per TechCrunch
Not verified by an official source as of Sep 29, 2026 (source: techcrunch.com).
TechCrunch reports OpenAI is in talks to raise a $30 billion round at a $1.4 trillion valuation, anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
Source: TechCrunch - Unconfirmed
OpenAI brings frontier RL training into its safety-case review process
Not verified by an official source as of Sep 29, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI published a safety-case approach for frontier reinforcement learning training, putting continued model training itself under safety review.
Source: X @0xLogicrw - Unconfirmed
Reddit reports OpenAI's $200 Pro plan facing a 50% usage cut
Not verified by an official source as of Sep 29, 2026 (source: reddit.com).
A Reddit post reports that OpenAI's $200 Pro plan is getting a 50% usage cut.
Source: r/singularity - Unconfirmed
Cloudflare greatly expands its cf CLI
Not verified by an official source as of Sep 29, 2026 (source: x.com).
Cloudflare substantially expanded the cf CLI it introduced in April, extending it from a handful of products to Cloudflare's broader developer platform.
Source: X @0xLogicrw - Unconfirmed
OpenAI publishes practical guidelines on securing frontier RL training
Not verified by an official source as of Sep 29, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI published practical guidelines on securing frontier RL training, reflecting its current learnings, per Greg Brockman's X account.
Source: x-gdb - Official
ChatGPT Health now explains a chart, metric or record you select, based on your own data
ChatGPT release notes published this on Sep 28, 2026 (source: help.openai.com).
OpenAI's ChatGPT release notes say users can now select a chart, metric or record in the Health tab to get personalized explanations and insights based on their connected health information. Health is available to logged-in Free, Go, Plus and Pro users in the U.S. aged 18 or older on web and iOS, and is rolling out gradually.
Source: ChatGPT release notes - Reported by The Verge
OpenAI works to fix its math breakthrough announcements, per The Verge
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Sep 28, 2026 (source: theverge.com).
The Verge reports that in a chaotic few months OpenAI has made impressive mathematics breakthroughs while repeatedly mishandling the announcements, and is now trying to do better.
Source: The Verge - Reported by The Verge
OpenAI has fallen behind on consumer AI agents, per The Verge
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Sep 28, 2026 (source: theverge.com).
The Verge reports that as OpenAI's 2026 DevDay approaches, the company has fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents.
Source: The Verge - Unconfirmed
OpenAI teases '1 day. 20+ launches.'
Not verified by an official source as of Sep 28, 2026 (source: reddit.com).
OpenAI's official X account posted '1 day. 20+ launches.', teasing a wave of launches.
Source: r/singularity - Official
OpenAI details textGrain watermarking for EU AI Act, detector access starts with researchers
OpenAI published this on Sep 28, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI published its approach to text watermarking under the EU AI Act, built on textGrain — an invisible statistical signal in the model's word choices. Starting immediately, API customers globally can opt in for select models (off by default), eligible ChatGPT and Codex output in the EU gets the watermark over the coming weeks, and detector access opens to approved researchers and expert organizations only. At a 1% target false-positive rate, detection worked on about 80% of 200-token passages and 95% of 400-token passages, but replacing 25% of words cut detection to 17%. OpenAI says textGrain matched or exceeded SynthID for text in its tests and plans to open-source the technology.
Source: OpenAI - Official
OpenAI expands Lenfest Institute program with $5M and software credits
OpenAI News published this on Sep 28, 2026 (source: openai.com).
OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding plus up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support, per the Lenfest Institute.
Source: OpenAI News - Unconfirmed
OPENAI 🔥: Key insights from upcoming DevDay sessions.
Not verified by an official source as of Sep 28, 2026 (source: x.com).
OPENAI 🔥: Key insights from upcoming DevDay sessions. * This agenda is not public yet First, OpenAI will build Platform capabilities inside Codex, enabling users to develop plugins, agents, and apps right from a dedicated DevDay page, which is quite cool! Highlights from https://t.co/K5r3kDz7ld https://t.co/lwQMTGq6iI
Source: X @testingcatalog - Unconfirmed
OpenAI is working on "Spaces" 👀
Not verified by an official source as of Sep 28, 2026 (source: x.com).
OpenAI is working on "Spaces" 👀 A new announcement introducing "Spaces" was added recently. Spaces could be collaborative environments where users and agents work together on generated artifacts (speculation). Some DevDay sessions mention a "Codex run that spent more than https://t.co/pjGOKzPzm6 https://t.co/OwmprdvpAf
Source: X @testingcatalog - Reported by The Decoder
20+ leading AI researchers warn automated AI research poses extreme risks, per The Decoder
Not confirmed by the company — reported on Sep 28, 2026 (source: the-decoder.com).
The Decoder reports more than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of an impending intelligence explosion from self-improving AI that could soon automate all AI research.
Source: The Decoder