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ChatGPT Work shipped last month on the $20 tier, built on a modified Codex. A joint Work and Codex app has 20 million users against more than a billion on ChatGPT.
The DeepMind-alumni startup said its Faraday teammate reproduced published science results without being given the answers, and outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on that task. Faraday runs on Alibaba’s Qwen 3.6 27B.
OpenAI is cutting developer prices on frontier model GPT-5.6 Sol by more than 20% for the next three months. The promo also applies to eligible ChatGPT Work credits and Codex; Pro, Plus, and Business subscriptions are unchanged.
OpenAI’s new Apple Messages plugin can sort, analyze, edit, delete, draft, and send iMessage. It works with Codex and ChatGPT Work and, OpenAI says, does not build a full index of the inbox.
IBM’s August 13 release said it will embed GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work in its consulting platform, stand up an OpenAI practice, and join OpenAI’s Elite partner tier. Terms were not disclosed.
A changelog dated August 13 rolled DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 onto app, web, and API, with MIT weights on Hugging Face. Peak/off-peak rates started August 16.
OpenAI’s August 10 Daybreak post said the purpose-trained cyber model found two unknown V8 issues that chained to a heap-sandbox escape. Google patched Chrome 150.0.7871.128. Daybreak accounts need hardware keys by September 1.
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