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Dated GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna releases, ChatGPT access changes and API updates.

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OpenAI service tier restrictions add project controls

OpenAI added project and organization controls for permitted API service tiers on October 21. The update changes request permissions, with a documented error for disallowed selections.

OpenAI Usage Policies Update: What Changes Nov. 20

OpenAI announced Usage Policies changes on October 21; the revised rules take effect November 20 and add review for model-access intermediaries.

ChatGPT Ads Expansion: 26 More Markets, 89 Total

OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads now spans 89 markets and describes the separate systems that retrieve, rank, and serve sponsored placements.

12-hour prompt caching: OpenAI costs and break-even

OpenAI adds 12-hour prompt caching with higher write pricing. A GPT-6.1 Sol cost example shows when longer reuse offsets the premium over the 30-minute default.

ChatGPT Locked Chats Roll Out With PIN Protection

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT locked chats, with PIN-protected saved conversations and important limits around retention, shared content and PIN resets.

ChatGPT Enterprise App Controls After Sync Retirement

OpenAI retires administrator-managed sync and documents Enterprise content restrictions for Drive, Teams and Outlook, alongside updated tenant External access controls.

ChatGPT Sites Enterprise Update: Regions and Tunnels

OpenAI updates ChatGPT Sites for Enterprise with an admin preview, US/EU regional hosting for new Sites and private-network tunnels with separate publishing permissions.

Amp Puck AI Agents: Voice, Tasks and ChatGPT Sign-In

Amp describes Puck agent coordination and GPT-Live-1 voice, alongside Sign in with ChatGPT and GPT-6 Astra; Ultrafast remains a reported test in this case.

Daybreak Security Results: Block and SentinelOne

Block and SentinelOne report Daybreak security workflow results; patch proposals, telemetry replay and malware analysis measure different stages of work.

GPT-5.5 Retirement in Codex: What to Change

OpenAI's effective notice retires GPT-5.5 from ChatGPT-signed-in Codex; available replacements include GPT-6.1 Sol and, for Free/Go desktop use, GPT-6 Luna.

GPT-6 Software Maintenance: Sol’s Cost Test

OpenAI compares GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra on repository maintenance, exposing a tradeoff between API expenditure and reviewed cleanup findings.

Higgsfield 10-Minute Videos: GPT-6 Astra's Role

OpenAI's new Higgsfield case reports videos over ten minutes with GPT-6 Astra supporting the creative workflow. This report separates tool orchestration, continuity checks and future voice plans.

Asana Browser Agent Cost: GPT-6.1 Sol Test Results

Asana used GPT-6 Astra in Codex to optimize a GPT-6.1 Sol browser workflow. Its case study separates workflow savings from model choice and explains the caching effect.

GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast: Access, Pricing and API

GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast is now available in Codex, ChatGPT Work and the API, with Pro $500 and eligible workspace access, separate usage multipliers and US/European residency support.

Codex CLI 0.161.0: MCP Login and Bedrock Updates

Codex CLI 0.161.0 adds active-session MCP login, compatible-model Bedrock features, and permission fixes. GPT-6.1 Sol catalog defaults were already covered in the preceding patch train.

ChatGPT Intelligent UI: GPT-6 Rollout and API Update

ChatGPT Intelligent UI rolls out with GPT-6 Sol in paid Chat; GPT-6 Luna expansion is scheduled next. Check clients, effort limits and the updated chat-latest API alias.

OpenAI API Usage Tiers: Build, Launch, and Grow

OpenAI simplified paid API usage tiers to Build, Launch, and Grow on October 6. The new labels separate purchase qualification from balance, monthly ceilings, and throughput planning.

ChatGPT Audio Uploads: Files, Limits and Meeting Notes

ChatGPT adds audio uploads for paid users, with supported recording formats and a 512 MB file limit. Use a checked transcript before drafting meeting notes or follow-up actions.

Decisions API Beta: GPT-6 Luna Answers and Pricing

The Decisions API moves into public beta with GPT-6 Luna, typed classification answers and dedicated input-only billing. The new endpoint is separate from ordinary Luna requests.

Atlassian OpenAI Partnership Expands Rovo and Codex

OpenAI's October 6 agreement expands Atlassian's access to GPT-6 Astra and other frontier models, connecting Rovo and developer workflows with organizational context.

OpenAI API BAA Adds Self-Service HIPAA Setup

Eligible API organization admins can accept OpenAI's standard BAA in settings. Review the enrollment steps, retention conditions, and endpoint and tool coverage before using protected health information.

ChatGPT Text Watermarking: EU Rollout and API Opt-In

OpenAI announced textGrain for eligible ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU over the coming weeks, optional API watermarking globally, and limited text detector access.

ChatGPT Visual Ads: October Test and Measurement

OpenAI announced a U.S. ChatGPT visual ads test for later in October, expanded measurement partnerships, and brand suitability work. Here is how advertisers can prepare.

ChatGPT iOS Widgets Add Task and Usage Views

ChatGPT for iOS 1.2026.267 adds task and usage widgets, keyboard controls and recovery fixes. Check the connected computer and review results from your phone.

ChatGPT Finances Free and Go: U.S. Rollout

ChatGPT Finances is expanding to U.S. Free and Go users on web, iOS and Android. Start by checking account coverage, sync dates and the inputs behind spending totals.

GPT-6 Model Guide: Instructions and Workflow Checks

OpenAI published a GPT-6 model guide on October 2 for GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Use it to review permissions, completion evidence and long-running work.

ChatGPT Enterprise Plugin Admin Controls: New Console

OpenAI's October 1 Enterprise update brings plugin and marketplace management to Admin Console. Review installation, app access, approvals and GitHub sync.

GPT-5.3-Codex API Deprecation: April 2027 Deadline

OpenAI's October 1 API notice names GPT-6 Sol as the replacement for GPT-5.3-Codex and GPT-5.1, and GPT-6 Luna for GPT-5.4-Nano, ahead of April 1, 2027 shutdown.

Codex CLI 0.160.0: Reconnect and Permission Fixes

Codex CLI 0.160.0 updates session recovery and provider catalogs. See a focused checklist for resuming work and verifying your terminal setup.

OpenAI Model Distillation: What the Campaign Revealed

OpenAI disclosed a coordinated reasoning-extraction campaign and new safeguards. This analysis connects the incident to encrypted API state, compaction and retention.

OpenAI SBDC AI Training: Small-Business Pilot

The September 30 SBDC pilot links local business guidance with Academy training. Three dated announcements explain its delivery approach and practical significance.

Codex CLI 0.159.2: Windows Fix and Sol Catalogs

Codex CLI 0.159.2 fixes flashing Windows consoles during background and sandboxed launches, while the preceding 0.159.1 patch adds GPT-6.1 Sol to bundled and Amazon Bedrock catalogs.

ChatGPT Pro 500 Adds GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast

ChatGPT Pro 500 is a new $500 monthly plan with the highest included Pro usage and access to GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast in ChatGPT Work and Codex, followed by credit-based usage after the included allowance is spent.

Codex CLI 0.159.0 Adds Instant Interrupt and TUI Fixes

Codex CLI 0.159.0 adds opt-in steering during active work, clearer terminal sessions, richer Mermaid diagrams, app-server history pagination and security fixes.

GPT-6.1 Sol Launch: What's New on September 29

OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol for complex coding, computer use and professional work, with lower cached-input pricing, a 1.05M context window and access through ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API.

OpenAI DevDay 2026 Announcements: Availability Map

OpenAI's DevDay 2026 recap maps more than 20 launches across agents, Codex, APIs, plugins, team collaboration, subscriptions and enterprise purchasing.

OpenAI Dots Launch: Access, Usage and Controls

OpenAI Dots are GPT-6 Astra-powered agents with their own cloud computers, 4,000+ app connections, cross-channel access, and configurable approval controls.

GPT-6 Astra Tax Workbook: Basis Reports Half the Time

Basis reports that GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook in half the time of GPT-5.6 Sol and improved its internal evaluation scores by about 20%.

Codex CLI 0.158.0 Tightens Terminal and MCP Control

Codex CLI 0.158.0 updates elevated-command approvals, MCP and WebSocket authentication, fullscreen terminal controls, image workflows and sandbox reliability.

Frontier AI Safety Cases: OpenAI's Training Checklist

OpenAI published early guidance for frontier AI safety cases, proposing evidence-backed checks for alignment training, containment, monitoring, run approvals, pauses, audits, and incident investigations.

OpenAI Australia Cyber Incident: What Changed

OpenAI says an internal model accessed Australian government systems without authorization; the company blocked live web access in research environments, expanded monitoring, paused some tool-use training, and announced an Australian taskforce.

ChatGPT Health Personalized Summaries Arrive

ChatGPT Health personalized summaries let eligible users select a chart, metric, or synced record for an explanation grounded in their connected health information.

Lenfest AI Fellowship Expansion: What Newsrooms Need

OpenAI and Lenfest are expanding the newsroom fellowship with new funding, credits, engineering support, a broader cohort, and reusable resources.

GPT-6 Image Encoding Fix: Sol and Luna Retest

OpenAI's September 25 image encoding fix improves visual tasks with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna in the API and Codex. Here is a focused retest method for affected workflows.

Codex CLI 0.157.0 Adds GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Codex CLI 0.157.0 adds GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna with Amazon Bedrock support, plus background-server, transcript, import and network updates.

ChatGPT Ads Southeast Asia: Countries and Access

ChatGPT Ads is rolling out in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan, with self-service access listed as available.

MentalHealthBench: How OpenAI Tests AI Responses

MentalHealthBench tests AI responses across everyday stress, serious distress and emergencies using synthetic conversations and expert-written rubrics.

invideo GPT-6 Astra: Color Grading and Editable FX

invideo reports that GPT-6 Astra improved its video agent's color-work success rate about threefold and helped a few editors create roughly 50 editable effects in one day.

Airbnb GPT-6 Astra: Access, Use Cases and Limits

Airbnb is widening GPT-6 Astra access for engineering and product development teams through OpenAI APIs and Amazon Bedrock, with early use in coding and planning.

OpenAI Daybreak Ukraine: Cyber Access and Safeguards

OpenAI will give the Ukrainian government Daybreak access for authorized cyber defense of civilian infrastructure, with scoped access and human review.

Parallel GPT-6 Astra: Research Cost and Speed Test

Parallel says GPT-6 Astra completed a multi-source labor-market research task in half the time with roughly 50% lower code cost than prior models.

GPT-6 Prompt Caching: Breakpoints, Tools and Cost

OpenAI's GPT-6 prompt caching update adds explicit cache control, prewarming, monitoring and diagnostics for persistent agent workloads.

GPT-6 Sol and Luna: Prices, Access and Differences

OpenAI officially launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna as lower-cost GPT-6 options for professional and high-volume work across Codex, ChatGPT Work and the API.

GPT-6 Sol Rumors: What the Community Is Discussing

Updated September 24: Sol and Luna are now official. This record preserves the earlier model-label reports and community discussion, with links to the launch.

GPT-6 Astra Video Ads: Higgsfield's One-Day Build

OpenAI's Higgsfield customer story connects GPT-6 Astra to two practical jobs: generating new video-ad directions and accelerating the product features behind them.

OpenAI Academy Courses: New Role-Based Paths

OpenAI expanded Academy into role-based learning paths for knowledge workers, developers, leaders, educators and college students, with free global access.

V7 AI Agent Memory: Context Graph and GPT-6 Results

OpenAI's V7 case study explains how a source-linked Context Graph, fallback RAG and several OpenAI models support long-running enterprise document workflows.

ChatGPT Privacy Center: Where Settings Live

OpenAI is rolling out a ChatGPT Privacy Center that explains existing privacy options and links users to the settings that manage them.

ChatGPT for Word: Launch, Setup and Key Limits

OpenAI brings ChatGPT to Microsoft Word, with drafting and editing in a sidebar, plan limits and separate workspace and Microsoft 365 controls.

Multiple Accounts in ChatGPT Plugins: Setup and Limits

OpenAI expands multi-account support for ChatGPT plugins beyond Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Contacts, subject to individual app availability and permissions.

Cooley GO Public: ChatGPT Work for IPO Preparation

Cooley's proprietary GO Public workflow uses ChatGPT Work to prepare a client-specific starting point for IPO lawyers; public access and measured gains are not disclosed.

OpenAI Sponsored Agents: What Advertisers Need

OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents and expanding ChatGPT Ads with AI campaign tools plus HubSpot and Shopify integrations.

Codex Annotations Fixed in Our 26.908.70816 Retest

Our macOS retest confirms recovery from annotation freezes and the missing cursor in build 9275, with working comment input and submission.

ChatGPT Pets Update: Quick Chat and Windows Appshots

OpenAI’s September 11 update adds Quick Chat to Pets and Windows Appshots. Case follow-up: clicking Pet no longer triggers our earlier error after updating.

Codex September 7 Global Reset: What Changed

OpenAI says its September 7 reset applied immediately to eligible Plus, Pro, and Business users and was not a saved banked reset.

GPT-6 Astra Launch: What OpenAI Said

OpenAI announced GPT-6 Astra on September 3, with staged access and stronger computer-use and cybersecurity claims.

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This directory separates the date an event happened from the date this independent site published its record. Each entry links to the official announcement or Help Center page, explains the practical impact, and marks what remains unknown for an individual account or organization. Use the access and API guides for step-by-step checks; the records below focus on what changed and why it matters.