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OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API Pricing as Frontier AI Enters a Cost Race

OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API Pricing as Frontier AI Enters a Cost Race

OpenAI is making its most capable GPT-5.6 model cheaper at a moment when developers are starting to judge frontier AI on more than intelligence alone. GPT-5.6 Sol will temporarily cost $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, reducing the price of running complex reasoning, coding and agentic workloads through OpenAI’s flagship […]

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Cyber Turns Access Into a Security Feature

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Cyber Turns Access Into a Security Feature

Cybersecurity is starting to challenge that assumption. As advanced models become better at finding vulnerabilities and assisting with complex security research, the question is increasingly about capability and control: who should be allowed to use the most powerful cyber models, under what conditions, and with what safeguards? OpenAI is addressing that problem with GPT-5.6-Cyber, a […]

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OpenAI Pauses Some Astra Work Over Critical Cyber Risk

OpenAI Pauses Some Astra Work Over Critical Cyber Risk

OpenAI has run into a rare problem with its next-generation model: Astra may be advancing faster than the security controls built around it. Internal evaluations showed significant gains in agentic coding and cybersecurity, pushing OpenAI to pause some work involving the unreleased model while stronger safeguards are put in place. The key concern is unusually […]

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OpenAI Acquires NextSlide to Bring AI Presentation Creation Into ChatGPT

OpenAI Acquires NextSlide to Bring AI Presentation Creation Into ChatGPT

AI can already help write a presentation. The harder part is turning research, notes, and ideas into something structured, visual, and ready to present. OpenAI has acquired the AI presentation startup, with the NextSlide team now working on ChatGPT. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founder Ahmed Beshry said the acquisition took place earlier in 2026, […]

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OpenAI Astra solves10 Advances in Longstanding Math Problems

OpenAI Astra solves10 Advances in Longstanding Math Problems

AI models have performed well on mathematics benchmarks before. OpenAI’s latest claim goes further, placing an unreleased model inside active research problems where the answers were not already known. OpenAI says an internal version of Astra produced 10 advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The company carefully describes the results as either resolving a […]

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