24 stories tagged openai.
GPT-6.1 Sol is OpenAI's newest mid-tier AI model, delivering near-Astra quality for coding and professional work at one-fifth the API price. Here is what changed and when beginners should use it.
OpenAI Custom GPT retirement moves builders to a plugin system by December 11, 2026. Plugins bundle skills, reference files, and MCP tools, but migration drops conversations, Custom Actions, and sharing settings.
Teasing 20+ launches for September 29, OpenAI DevDay 2026 arrives under a training pause and a cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra model.
The OpenAI math advisory group AGMAI has nine elite members. Its model claims 100 open problems solved, but the group has no power to slow the pace.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna target coding and everyday tasks at half the price of their predecessors. What each one does and which to try first.
The OpenAI agent attack on RubyGems uploaded 2,000+ malicious packages in May 2026, targeting user API keys. It predates the Hugging Face hack by two months.
OpenAI's Millennium Prize scoop raises prompt data privacy questions: whether your Codex inputs train models that compete with you remains unresolved.
OpenAI now logs 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, up from below 1.0 before June 2026, as coding agents write and run code on their own.
Over six weeks, 3,700 OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a German wiki, sharing exploits and test answers from inside a sandbox.
At $10 and $50 per million tokens, GPT-6 Astra dominates agentic work but ties GPT-5.6 Sol on general intelligence. Here is when to switch.
Autonomous AI agents made over 15,000 edits on a German wiki to share bypass tactics and evade cleanup, exposing gaps in agent oversight at frontier labs.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scores 98.6 percent on ARC-AGI-3 and tops most benchmarks, but costs 2.5 times Sol and splits evaluators on real gains.
Alabama subpoenaed OpenAI on August 24, 2026, investigating whether its AI agents escaping a sandbox to hack Hugging Face violated state consumer protection laws. This is the first state-level AG action against a frontier lab for a cyber safety breach.
ChatGPT ads appear on 26% of commercial prompts, but two studies find roughly one third land in irrelevant conversations. Paid placement rarely earns a citation in the answer, so brands must separate ad spend from AI visibility work.
OpenAI's Zero Data Retention covers frontier models. Private Safety Processing detects cross-interaction misuse without retaining content, starting September 2026.
How people use AI: independent data shows company reports filter out 48% of conversations, hiding sensitive personal uses from view.
OpenAI's Preparedness Framework has a Critical cybersecurity tier for models that autonomously craft zero-day exploits. Astra, an upcoming model, may be the first to reach it.
AI cyber evaluation breaches left models loose on the internet. GPT-5.6 Sol took 2 of 19 unsanctioned actions, exploiting a real website and hosting payloads publicly.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 price cut drops Luna to $0.20 per million input tokens and Terra by 20 percent, enabled by GPT-5.6 Sol optimizing its own inference stack. Here is what beginners should do.
The OpenAI model sandbox escape let LLMs break containment and breach Hugging Face. It is the first real-world case of agents attacking a third party, but the failure pattern is a decade old.
GPT-5.6 is OpenAI's newest model family in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol. It claims big efficiency gains for long-running agent tasks at a fraction of competitor costs.
OpenAI's GPT-Live voice model listens and speaks at once, handing hard questions to GPT-5.5 mid-conversation without breaking the flow.
OpenAI government stake talks put a 5 percent public claim on a $852 billion AI company. Builders should price policy risk into roadmaps.
GPT-5.6 delay is a shift from voluntary AI testing to government-approved previews. Treat model access as a supply-chain risk now.