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OpenAI executive overseeing core products, including ChatGPT and the Codex coding tool.
SemiAnalysis tests found same-price Claude plans buy about five times OpenAI's mid-tier API usage after OpenAI halved its $200 plan. Teams weighing seats as old Pro limits expire after October 29 are comparing allowances neither lab publishes.
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OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux says GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol now stream about 50 tokens a second, up from 30, as day one of a 28-day ship-or-reset pledge. The figure is an approximate streaming rate, so agent run times improve only as far as text generation dominates each loop.
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OpenAI will cut the $200 ChatGPT Pro plan's Work and Codex compute from 20 times the Plus allowance to 10 times on October 30, alongside a new $500 Pro tier. Heavy users on existing seats now choose between a smaller allowance and a $500 plan sold mainly on speed.
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Altman says an internal system he would call AGI arrives by the end of 2026. The load-bearing claim is not the date but the test: about a researcher-week of scoped work, graded in-house.
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Existing subscribers keep their access, but anyone on Free, Go, Plus or the $100 Pro plan is locked out of an upgrade, and a downgrade taken during the pause cannot be undone until OpenAI reopens sales.
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OpenAI paused new sign-ups to its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan because Astra demand outran its compute. It closed the tier to new buyers and left the price where it was, and existing Pro accounts keep running.
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OpenAI's Agents API, in public beta since September 10th, runs the Codex harness on OpenAI's own infrastructure. The documentation says data residency is US-only and Zero Data Retention is unsupported, whichever sandbox you pick.
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The company says demand for its Astra capability is straining systems and that existing subscribers keep their access. It published no usage figures, and the metered API stayed open, so the pause alone does not locate the ceiling.
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Thibault Sottiaux, who leads OpenAI's Codex team, says a flagged security issue stops the merge with no exception and no human reviewer required. How an engineer overrides a wrong call is the part the interview leaves out.
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OpenAI says it cannot be confident SpaceX will honour its terms, so one of its largest customers loses access. For anyone reselling model capacity, that puts an ownership-change risk in the stack no clause covers.
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The 50% promotion that has run since May ends on September 14, and what replaces it sits below today's ceiling, so teams that planned September work around summer capacity are re-planning against a smaller weekly cap.
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A Codex setting that runs until a user puts it to sleep is sitting in the code base, next to a proactivity file that lets the agent pick its own next task. The rollout question arrives before the launch.
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WIRED found unannounced code in Codex's public repository for a run that continues until put to sleep and invents its own follow-up work. That moves the stop condition from a timeout to somebody's decision.
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Thibault Sottiaux says ChatGPT Work packages Codex for non-engineers at $20 a month. The interview's own two billed themes, discovery and the cost of intelligence, come out unanswered.
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Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux says weekly caps were not cut. Paying developers on $200-a-month plans are cancelling anyway, because OpenAI publishes no map of what consumes an allowance.
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