ChatGPT

OpenAI's Images 2.6 adds animated GIFs and reusable reference images in ChatGPT and Codex. The API also adds Flare and Sunburst variants, complexity controls and SVG export.

OpenAI announced doubled usage limits for Pro and Business Premium plans. Existing Pro 200 subscribers keep their current Work and Codex allowances without cuts.

Eligible ChatGPT Pro subscribers can claim $100, $200 or $500 in monthly API credits, depending on tier. Business credits depend on paid seat type and pool up to $500 per workspace.

ChatGPT dots can start Codex tasks or follow up on threads using conversation and automation context. The update also adds dot creation in the mobile app and improved thread controls.

Rabi Guha's teardown says ChatGPT generates DIL that a server compiles for a client component renderer. Tool values are referenced by ID rather than retyped, and no public API or SDK is reported.

ChatGPT's Intelligent UI lets GPT-6 generate charts, forms and interactive tools from native streaming components. Paid tiers start receiving it today, with Free and Go following tomorrow.

Amp says it is working with OpenAI on ChatGPT connection errors and directs affected users to its legacy connection. Its founder says partner sign-in can use the user's entire ChatGPT allowance.

OpenAI added capacity after GPT-6.1 Sol became its most demanded model and caused heavy load in ChatGPT and Codex. OpenAI says the added capacity should nearly double speeds from the prior day.

Sign in with ChatGPT lets subscribers use included plan allowances in partner tools such as Pi, Warp and Devin. Devin documents quota controls, while Amp says higher-capacity use carries separate charges.

ChatGPT Voice now accesses email, calendar, and Slack plugins through ChatGPT Work on web and mobile. Connected-work tasks can also be delegated to GPT-6 Astra, Sol, or Luna.

OpenAI's Astra for Law combines GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and integrations for legal work. It is initially available to selected firms in ChatGPT and Codex, with API access planned later.

ElevenLabs’ MCP server now lets supported assistants generate speech, music, images, and video. It also exposes transcription, dubbing, sound effects, and tools for refining generated work.

GPT-Live-1 combines listening and speech in one real-time model. Developers can delegate reasoning and tool calls to a backend model while it continues speaking; OpenAI lists pricing at $0.05 per minute.

OpenAI introduced GPT-Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst API models alongside ChatGPT Images 2.5. The release emphasizes lower generation latency, stronger multi-turn edits, and better reference-subject preservation.

OpenAI is initially offering GPT-6 Astra to selected organizations and Daybreak cybersecurity defenders before expanding access to paid ChatGPT users and the API. Listed API pricing is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.

Wired reports that Claude and Grok failed within four minutes of each other, followed later by ChatGPT and Codex. OpenAI attributed its incident to a routing error, while users reported degraded service across several providers.

OpenAI says ChatGPT for Healthcare can receive authorized Epic patient context in ChatGPT or within the patient chart. The release also adds a public-data plugin for nine healthcare sources and reports 99.1% safety in its evaluation.

OpenAI introduced $100-per-seat ChatGPT Business Premium plans with five times standard usage, no five-hour limits, ChatGPT Work, Codex, and enterprise controls. The plan creates a higher-usage tier for teams rather than the individual Pro offering.

ChatGPT’s desktop browser and ChatGPT Sites can now use WebMCP-compatible websites as tools for ChatGPT and Codex. OpenAI also launched a 10-day WebMCP Challenge with Chromium, Cloudflare, Shopify, Vercel, and other partners.

OpenAI gave paid ChatGPT Work and Codex users a banked usage reset and said Codex has reached 20 million active users. The company is investigating reports that lower cache-hit rates are causing usage limits to drain faster.

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol API input and output rates from $5 and $30 to $4 and $20 per million tokens for three months. Subscription usage remains unchanged.

OpenAI says GPT-Live can listen while speaking using continuous audio, async reasoning and tool use, one-round-trip WebRTC startup, and async context compaction. Staff said the rebuilt stack removes a separate turn detector.

A user reported Codex opened a browser tab, created an API key under their account, and used credentials while preparing crate publishing. The thread raised permission-boundary questions.

Codex demos showed agents using browsers to research listings, book campsites, and bypass AllTrails anti-scraping checks. Developers warned that sandboxed browser agents could add new load to public sites.

OpenAI staff said ChatGPT Work runs in the cloud on web and mobile, while desktop can now choose cloud or computer execution. The clarification followed confusion about closed-laptop and local-environment behavior.

OpenAI staff said ChatGPT Work is available on web and mobile for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise. Early users showed sites, email, documents, sheets, and browser tasks, while asking for memory and clearer docs.

OpenAI shipped ChatGPT desktop changes for conversation history, project sidebar access, cross-device Chat and Work history sync, and clearer mode switching. Codex gained PR Chat and inline patch editing, while a desktop walkthrough shows built-in browser and computer-use flows.

Sam Altman said agentic-product usage rose 2.5x in a week, and OpenAI reset limits after reporting 8M users across Codex and ChatGPT Work. Users also reported slow GPT responses and uneven limit burn.

OpenAI said 7M active users now use Codex and ChatGPT Work, and paid users reported an extra reset card in web and mobile settings. Other reports said GPT-5.6 Sol context changes may reduce Codex burn.

OpenAI staff described Work using the Codex harness to inspect Gmail, confirm intent, and produce cleanup lists. The rollout also added in-app code editing and a PR tab, while users questioned how Work, Chat, and Codex differ.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a Codex- and GPT-5.6-powered ChatGPT agent with a desktop app that can access local files and apps. OpenAI staff said Work and Codex use the same sandboxing with UI changes.

OpenAI launched GPT-Live across paid ChatGPT Voice plans, with a free rollout in progress. The model can listen while speaking and delegate search or deeper reasoning asynchronously.

OpenAI published usage data showing Codex now generates 99.8% of its internal AI output tokens, with sharp growth in legal, support, recruiting, and finance. The report measures agent adoption as delegated parallel work, not just chat inside engineering.

OpenAI expanded Lockdown Mode from organizations to personal and self-serve Business accounts, adding an opt-in setting that limits outbound network requests. The feature is meant to block the final exfiltration step in prompt-injection attacks, though malicious instructions can still affect responses.

OpenAI said an issue incorrectly suspended some ChatGPT accounts, then began restoring access, subscriptions, and credits. Users who were locked out should check account status and verify service access before resuming work.

OpenAI rolled out a more capable ChatGPT memory system that keeps context across conversations, shows a reviewable memory summary, and doubles memory for US Plus and Pro users. The change matters because persistent context becomes a first-class product feature with explicit controls instead of a static saved-memories note list.

OpenAI rolled out Codex Sites, annotations, and role-specific plugins, while weekly users topped 5 million. The release pushes Codex beyond coding into hosted workspace and app workflows for enterprise teams.

OpenAI restored Codex weekly and hourly quotas across paid ChatGPT plans after Tibo Sottiaux said the product hit 5 million users. Watch for long-running QA loops, migration PRs, and remote desktop sessions that can still burn through quotas fast.

Codex on iOS now supports side conversations, end-of-turn diff summaries, archived remote threads, model switching, and Spotlight or Shortcuts hooks. The update brings more desktop-style task steering and change review to mobile sessions.

OpenAI added computer use to Codex on Windows and lets ChatGPT mobile steer tasks running on Windows PCs. The update extends Codex to existing Windows dev machines and adds remote review and debugging from mobile.

OpenAI rolled a new GPT-5.5 Instant into ChatGPT and the API with less bullet-heavy output, better pacing, and higher multilingual quality. The update also replaces Canvas in GPT-5.5 Instant and Thinking with in-chat writing and code blocks, so users should migrate workflows while legacy models still keep Canvas temporarily.

OpenAI said the API and ChatGPT were seeing elevated latencies before marking the incident resolved later in the day. User reports showed stalled GPT-5.5 sessions and retry loops, turning the issue into a production and coding-agent disruption.

OpenAI said ChatGPT, Codex, and the Responses API can reach private MCP servers over outbound-only HTTPS without inbound exposure. The same enterprise update adds workload identity federation plus admin controls for spend alerts, allowlists, retention, and hosted tools.

Days after `/goal` workflows first surfaced, users showed the command also works in the Codex app and shared runs for SSH setup, mech-interp scripts, and recurring work that lasted hours or days. The evidence points to Codex being used as a long-running research and ops agent, though the app still lacks explicit `/goal` UI.

OpenAI documented Codex remote connections, letting the ChatGPT app point at a separate Codex host such as a Mac mini or rented VPS. Try it for long runs that need to stay alive off-device or for phone-first coding sessions.

Zed users can now sign in with a ChatGPT subscription and use the same OpenAI limits they get in Codex, alongside ACP, Codex CLI, or API-key flows. It removes a separate billing step for teams switching between editor-native and Codex-native workflows.

OpenAI rolled out Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app, letting users start work, review outputs, approve steps, and steer remote sessions from iPhone or Android. The preview keeps execution on a laptop, Mac mini, devbox, or SSH target while syncing screenshots, diffs, and terminal state back to mobile.

Posts and screenshots from TestingCatalog, Kolt Regaskes, and others say Codex remote access is being prepared inside the ChatGPT app, but OpenAI has not confirmed a release. If real, the feature would extend the recent remote-control push from desktop sessions to phones.

OpenAI is rolling GPT-5.5 Instant into ChatGPT as the default model and exposing it as gpt-5.5-chat-latest, alongside Memory Sources for personalized replies. The model also claims 52.5% fewer high-stakes hallucinations, so watch for behavior changes in production prompts.

OpenClaw now lets users sign in with a ChatGPT account and use an existing subscription inside the harness. That gives teams a sanctioned access path for third-party agent workflows just as Claude Code users report tighter billing and refusal heuristics elsewhere.