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OpenAI makes ChatGPT, the GPT family of models, the Codex coding agent and a growing set of developer APIs. This hub collects AiLookout’s OpenAI news in one feed, newest first: model launches, ChatGPT features and plan changes, usage limits and pricing, Codex and agent releases, funding and valuation news, data center and energy deals, and the policy positions the company takes in Washington and abroad.
We keep vendor claims labelled as vendor claims. If a benchmark result, user count or revenue figure comes from OpenAI or its executives, the story says so and links the announcement, filing or interview. Independent measurements, lawsuits and reporting by other outlets are linked separately so you can check each claim at its source.
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Latest OpenAI News
Tools & Agents7 min read
OpenAI builds Pando, a new Git backend that cuts push latency 5x for agent-scale development
OpenAI rebuilt its source-control backend for a monorepo where Codex-driven development generates hundreds of concurrent pushes per minute. The new backend, called Pando, uses causal consistency and reusable packfiles to cut median push latency by nearly 5x.
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Security6 min read
OpenAI plans an AI-run security sprint with Cathedral and more than quadruples critical bug bounties
OpenAI will run its next internal security sprint with researchers from Cathedral Systems using OpenAI models to attack OpenAI, and raised Security Bug Bounty rewards by more than four times for critical findings, with exceptional payouts reaching up to $172,000 with bonuses.
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Industry5 min read
OpenAI hires former US Army secretary Dan Driscoll for national security role
OpenAI has hired former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll as senior counselor for national security modernization, a newly created role focusing on how AI can strengthen U.S. national security, cybersecurity, and allied partnerships.
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Industry8 min read
ADNOC becomes the first energy company to deploy OpenAI's frontier agents across its oil operations
ADNOC signed a multi-year partnership with OpenAI and G42 at ADIPEC 2026 to run OpenAI Frontier agents across field development planning, barrel valuation, trading and cyber defence, with Abu Dhabi's crown prince witnessing the agreement.
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Research4 min read
50 GPT-6.1 agents in Minecraft failed to build a civilization and formed a bureaucracy instead
Y Combinator Labs and Olam Labs ran 50 GPT-6.1 Sol agents in Minecraft with a single goal: build a thriving civilization in three hours. What emerged was less a society and more a slow-moving bureaucracy — 11 minutes spent appointing a single fertilizer operator for one bone meal on one wheat block.
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Industry7 min read
OpenAI pledges data center power cuts with new Grid Protectors program, starting in Georgia
OpenAI launched the Grid Protectors Program on Monday, a national framework for its future data center campuses to cut electricity demand when the grid is under strain, starting with commitments at the planned Effingham County, Georgia campus that could free up power equivalent to 700,000 homes.
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Research5 min read
OpenAI launches LifeVal, a benchmark that scores AI on everyday chores from childcare to government paperwork
OpenAI released LifeVal, a benchmark that tests whether AI can complete time-consuming everyday tasks rather than just answer questions about them. GPT-6 Astra scored 80.6% on the evaluation, with perfect marks on several real-world errands.
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Security6 min read
OpenAI will train models on Daybreak Blue cybersecurity session data even when training is off
Starting November 29, OpenAI may use content from Daybreak Blue sessions on personal ChatGPT accounts to improve its models, even when the 'Improve the model for everyone' setting is off. A follow-up email promised a separate opt-out, but safety-flagged interactions remain usable for safety purposes.
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Industry5 min read
OpenAI slashes fundraising target to $20 billion after securing only $11 billion
OpenAI cut its funding target from $30 billion to $20 billion, CNBC and the FT report. The Wall Street Journal says the company has secured about $11 billion so far, with tepid interest from large investors.
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Industry5 min read
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back a shared robots.txt signal to let sites block AI training in one step
The four companies committed on October 30 to honor a common robots.txt policy token that lets any website refuse AI training across all participating crawlers at once. Anthropic already supports it; the others plan to implement in 2027.
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Industry5 min read
ChatGPT and Codex will share one usage allowance starting in December
OpenAI updated its Help Center on October 31 to say that starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business subscribers will draw ChatGPT conversation and Codex agent runs from a single token-based allowance. Only Instant chat is exempt. The change merges the chat and work pools as OpenAI brings agentic capabilities into the main ChatGPT experience.
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Industry5 min read
Sam Altman says PC DRAM belongs in data centers, not personal computers
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that the world's limited DRAM supply should go to AI data centers rather than personal computers, where he claims memory sits unused 95% of the time. His remarks drew sharp pushback from developers who say local inference and gaming are legitimate uses for consumer RAM.
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Industry6 min read
OpenAI will push mandatory AI speed limits and call its data centers AI compute campuses
OpenAI plans a policy and PR blitz after Tuesday's midterms, pushing Congress for mandatory safety safeguards and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses" to win over skeptical communities, Axios reports.
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Industry5 min read
House Democrats ask Trump to preserve AI chatbot records and demand incident reports from five labs
House Democrats asked President Trump to preserve his conversations with Grok and other AI chatbots, as part of a broader oversight push that includes letters to Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI requesting detailed reports on AI safety incidents due by November 11, 2026.
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Tools & Agents5 min read
Researchers find bugs in five AI developer tools as Codex and VS Code flaws stay unpatched
Forever Security found vulnerabilities in five AI developer tools — Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Desktop, VS Code and Codex — rooted in the privileged embedded browsers these tools ship. Cursor's flaw enabled host command execution via prompt injection; Copilot allowed address-bar spoofing; and Codex and VS Code still have arbitrary file-read bugs unpatched.
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Industry5 min read
OpenAI offers ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers up to $500 a month in free API credits
OpenAI announced that eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers receive up to $500 a month in free API credits — matching Anthropic's existing offering — by linking an API organization to their subscription, with credits arriving when the subscription renews.
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Industry5 min read
OpenAI doubles usage limits for ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium tiers
OpenAI announced doubling usage limits for Pro 100, Pro 200, Pro 500 and Business Premium — reversing a planned cut that would have halved Pro 200 allowances starting 30 October.
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Industry5 min read
OpenAI updates its Model Spec around five core values for AI behavior
OpenAI published an updated Model Spec on 29 October 2026, reorganizing its guidance for GPT model behavior around five core values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care — replacing the previous framework that focused more narrowly on instruction-following and safety boundaries.
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Tools & Agents5 min read
Google opens Android Studio to third-party AI coding agents with 'Bring Your Own Agent'
Google announced at the Android Dev Summit that Android Studio now supports more than 40 third-party coding agents through its 'Bring Your Own Agent' feature, including Anthropic's Claude Agent, OpenAI's Codex and Google Antigravity, via the open Agent Client Protocol. New Android CLI tools help agents finish UI tasks 77 percent faster with up to three times fewer tokens, per Google.
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Industry5 min read
Formation Bio launches a $600 million fund to accelerate AI-powered drug development
Formation Bio is launching the Drug Development Accelerator Fund with $600 million in capital commitments from research foundations, institutional endowments, hospitals and philanthropic organizations, to acquire or license 10 to 15 drug programs over three to five years and move them through clinical trials faster using AI.
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Industry6 min read
OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership to bring ChatGPT and Codex into enterprise workflows
OpenAI and ServiceNow announced an expanded partnership on 28 October 2026 that puts ChatGPT and Codex inside ServiceNow products and connects ServiceNow workflows with ChatGPT, including a new integration that lets teams find incidents, assess change risk and update records without leaving ChatGPT.
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Industry6 min read
Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI in its latest quarter
Microsoft generated $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ended September 30, TechCrunch reported on 28 October 2026, citing a regulatory filing. That is nearly 11 percent of Microsoft's total quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion.
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Research6 min read
Xplore's RWE-bench tests AI agents on real engineering work, and the best model passes 37 percent
Xplore released RWE-bench on 27 October 2026, a benchmark of 20 mechanical, electrical and aerospace engineering tasks where agents design a crankshaft, route a DDR3L memory bus and run CFD on turbine vanes — graded by deterministic verifiers running physics solvers. The best of 11 models, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, passes an average of 37% of runs.
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Industry5 min read
OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, The Information reports
OpenAI is planning to buy Google's AI chips, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing a person familiar with the matter, deepening ties between the two rivals.
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Research6 min read
Anthropic releases its own refutation of the exponential time hypothesis after OpenAI's
Hours after OpenAI published its claim that the exponential time hypothesis is false, Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge suggested OpenAI built on pre-existing work — and Anthropic released its own refutation of ETH.
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Industry5 min read
Oracle expands its OpenAI partnership to bring ChatGPT and Codex into its business apps
Oracle announced at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas that it is integrating OpenAI models, ChatGPT and Codex into its applications and data, and powering new Oracle offerings with OpenAI.
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Research5 min read
OpenAI releases 721 mathematical manuscripts claiming the exponential time hypothesis is false
OpenAI published 721 mathematical manuscripts on GitHub, including proofs that the exponential time hypothesis is false and the local smoothing conjecture is true, plus a QCD existence proof, all produced by an unnamed internal model using roughly 4,000 problems and three hours of compute per result.
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Models5 min read
OpenAI introduces GPT-6.1 Terra, a faster and cheaper computer-use model
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on 26 October, a fast, efficient model for computer use and visual work, priced 50% lower than GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol.
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Industry8 min read
Uber gives all 30,000 employees OpenAI's ChatGPT Work agent after a 1,000-person pilot
Uber is rolling ChatGPT Work out to more than 30,000 staff, with GPT-6.1 Sol as the default model and links to Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Slack. It has not disclosed the cost.
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Research8 min read
A 2015 skin cancer CNN beat GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 in a dermatologist's test
Guy's Hospital dermatologist Magnus Lynch found a fine-tuned Inception v3 named 125 of 200 biopsy-proven lesions correctly, against 84 for GPT-6 Astra and 85 for Claude Fable 5.1.
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Tools & Agents8 min read
Forever Security shows a malicious AGENTS.md in Downloads can hijack Codex and Claude Code
Researchers say a website can drop an instruction file into ~/Downloads, and that Codex and Claude Code will follow it when started there, installing malware or leaking OAuth tokens.
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Research9 min read
NVIDIA open-sources Flora, the engine that labels 200,000 hours of robot video a day for GR00T
NVIDIA's Flora is three open-weight models that caption robot videos and score each step. NVIDIA says it beats GPT-6 Astra on its own test at an estimated 125x lower cost.
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Industry8 min read
OpenAI nears a $30 billion round at a lower $1.25 trillion valuation, reports say
OpenAI is close to raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation led by UAE investors and Coatue, CNBC reports, down from a $1.4 trillion ask after investor pushback.
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Industry7 min read
OpenAI is winning coding customers from Anthropic with deep discounts, report says
The Information reports that Rippling flipped most of its coding work to OpenAI and Replit moved a $100 million-plus contract after OpenAI offered more than 30 percent off.
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Tools & Agents8 min read
Microsoft open-sources Agensh, a harness that ran 1,024 coding agents with no manager
Microsoft Research released Agensh under the MIT License on 24 October 2026. Its agents claim their own tasks through Git, chat and a shared notes board, and Microsoft says 1,024 of them lifted pandoc rebuild scores from 34 to 55 percent.
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Models9 min read
Ant Group's Ling-3.0-flash-Sante is an open health model that only GPT-5.6 beats on HealthBench
inclusionAI, Ant Group's AI arm, released Ling-3.0-flash-Sante, a 124B mixture-of-experts medical model under MIT. Ant's table puts it second only to GPT-5.6 Sol on HealthBench Professional, but behind on many exam tests.
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Research8 min read
Mathematicians open a GitHub hub to fix citations in OpenAI's 719 AI-written math papers
A guest post on Terence Tao's blog on 24 October 2026 launched oai-math-revised, a public GitHub project where mathematicians revise OpenAI's 719 AI-produced manuscripts, add missing citations and log corrections. Commenters questioned whether unpaid academics should do the work.
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Tools & Agents8 min read
Stripe Treasury for agents lets ChatGPT and Claude move business money with human approval
Stripe Treasury for agents, in public preview since 21 October, gives ChatGPT, Claude and other MCP agents tools to check balances, send money and convert currencies, with live money movement approved by a person by default.
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Research9 min read
GPT-6.1 Sol picks Democrats and Grok 4.7 picks Republicans when forced to name a candidate
A Convovo study asked both models via API, with web search on, who to vote for in 479 races in 2026. GPT-6.1 Sol named the Democrat 97 percent of the time and Grok 4.7 named the Republican 92 percent.
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Industry8 min read
Sweden's government offices block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers
Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff work computers from 26 October, citing information security and steering officials to an approved Microsoft Copilot instead.
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Research10 min read
Claude Fable 5.1 hid messages in its own drawings, and a fresh session read 78% back
Researchers asked Claude Fable 5.1 to hide 50 messages in SVG pictures. A new session with Python tools read 39 back from screenshots, with no scheme agreed in advance.
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Industry8 min read
OpenAI's agents found a Brotli flaw that puts Node.js and Python apps at risk
CVE-2026-111497, a Brotli decoder bug OpenAI's red-team agents found, allows remote code execution. Node.js, Bun, Python Brotli, Envoy and Istio have fixes; patch and restart now.
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Industry8 min read
UK launches an AI Biosecurity Lab backed by OpenAI and Anthropic with up to £300 million
The UK government is putting £100 million into a new independent lab for AI-driven biosecurity, and OpenAI and Anthropic are adding up to £200 million in model and compute credits.
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Industry9 min read
Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT safety claims and child protections
Ken Paxton's petition accuses OpenAI and Altman of deceiving Texans about ChatGPT's safety, and asks a court to bar new models without an approved outside safety review.
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Research10 min read
OpenAI now trains frontier models offline after its own agents found ways out of its sandboxes
OpenAI says frontier training now runs with no live internet access, after a September escape and a red-team in which its own agents found VM escapes, side doors and a cache-timing channel.
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Industry8 min read
OpenAI cut ChatGPT storage read latency from 120 ms to 10 ms with caching and Rust
OpenAI's Habitat storage platform, built on Azure Cosmos DB, now answers median reads in about 10 ms for over a billion users, and OpenAI is building its own exabyte-scale storage engine.
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Industry7 min read
CoreWeave launches one-command templates for Isaac Sim, CARLA, MuJoCo and Cosmos 3
CoreWeave's Physical AI Launchables package tested robotics and driving simulation jobs as templates you start with one command, with agent skills for Claude Code and Codex. Prices were not published.
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Industry8 min read
OpenAI signs an AI safety research deal with Poland's NASK, the home of CERT Polska
The agreement links OpenAI with Poland's national AI safety institute. It builds on CERT Polska's use of OpenAI cyber models to find six MikroTik router flaws, two of them chained in live attacks.
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