Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI Dots: Always-On ChatGPT Agents Explained
OpenAI's Dots are always-on agents with their own cloud computer, powered by GPT-6 Astra. How they work, who gets them, and the safety questions.
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Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI's Dots are always-on agents with their own cloud computer, powered by GPT-6 Astra. How they work, who gets them, and the safety questions.
Chisato · · 5 min read OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol launched at DevDay at one-fifth of GPT-6 Astra's token price. The benchmarks, pricing tiers, safety rating, and who can use it.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI opened its Agents API in public beta on Sept 10, putting the managed Codex harness behind one API call. What it does, how sandboxes work, and pricing.
Chisato · · 5 min read Anthropic backs strict Massachusetts AI safety rules while OpenAI and Google push a narrower version. Here's what the bill requires and why it matters.
Chisato · · 6 min read The Justice Department told a federal judge that training LLMs on copyrighted text is fair use, citing national security. What the filing means for the AI copyright fight.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its first model rated 'Critical' for cyber risk — the pricing, benchmarks, rollout, and who gets access first.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI connected ChatGPT Health to Epic's electronic health records, giving clinicians read-only access to patient data plus a public health data plugin.
Chisato · · 5 min read OpenAI says it will release Astra soon but limit its most advanced cyber capabilities to vetted testers, calling it the first model to hit the 'Critical' threshold.
Chisato · · 5 min read The European Commission named ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as VLOPs under the DSA, triggering risk duties by end of December.
Chisato · · 6 min read The Pentagon added OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government to GenAI.mil, opening custom AI to 3 million personnel for unclassified work.
Kurumi · · 6 min read OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads reached a $1B annualized run rate in under 200 days, with self-serve buying opening in Europe, India and MENA. What the numbers show.
Chisato · · 5 min read OpenAI is winding down the contract that supplies its models to Cursor after SpaceX's acquisition closed, citing Musk's contract history. Shutoff set for Nov 12.
Chisato · · 5 min read OpenAI reportedly bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Studios to train computer-use agents, while Anthropic rents Apple silicon via AWS.
Kurumi · · 6 min read SoftBank is weighing a $10–20 billion bond sale to refinance a $40 billion bridge loan behind its OpenAI investment. The deal structure and what it signals.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI and Broadcom published first benchmarks for Jalapeño, an inference-only ASIC that claims up to 1.9x throughput per watt over Nvidia's GB300. What it means.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI banned a Russia-linked ChatGPT cluster that built a fake Israeli think tank, the International Burke Institute, and plagiarized 34 of 36 sampled articles.
Kurumi · · 5 min read OpenAI's IPO is now leaning toward 2027 as Sam Altman holds out for a $1 trillion valuation. Here's the timeline, the revenue numbers, and what to watch.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI cut flagship GPT-5.6 Sol to $4/$20 per million tokens for three months — its first cut to the top tier — to counter Anthropic and Chinese models.
Chisato · · 7 min read OpenAI previewed Private Safety Processing to keep zero data retention on frontier models while catching misuse across sessions — a privacy jab at Anthropic.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI put its largest planned frontier RL run on hold after its Astra model neared a Critical cyber rating. What was paused, why, and the new safeguards.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, an age-restricted mode with parental controls and age prediction, as lawsuits and an FTC probe over child safety mount.
Kurumi · · 6 min read Nvidia will guarantee up to $105B for OpenAI's Pike County, Ohio data center and invest $1.5B in SB Energy. The terms, the lease, and the circular-financing fallout.
Chisato · · 5 min read OpenAI's new Ultrafast tier runs the full GPT-5.6 Sol model at up to 750 tokens per second — 14x faster — on Cerebras wafer-scale chips instead of GPUs.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI expanded its ChatGPT ads test to the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and South Korea, showing sponsored results to free and Go users. Here's how it works.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber and split its Daybreak security program into Blue and Red tiers. What the model does, its benchmarks, and who can use it.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next major model, solved ten long-open math problems — each shipped with a machine-checkable Lean proof.
Chisato · · 6 min read Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the startup citing health, then rejoined OpenAI within days to lead a new recursive self-improvement research team.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna's price 80% and cut Terra 20% while leaving flagship Sol untouched. Inside the AI price war and what cheaper tokens mean.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI is giving academic researchers free frontier-model access, starting with 10,000 scientists and scaling to 100,000 by 2027. Here's what's included and why it matters.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told staff July's annualized revenue exceeded the entire second quarter, powered by GPT-5.6, ChatGPT Work and Codex. Here's what it signals.
Chisato · · 5 min read OpenAI hit its fourth outage in four days on July 25, 2026, as ChatGPT, Codex and the API returned 503 'circuit open' errors worldwide. What broke and why.
Kurumi · · 6 min read Nvidia is reportedly weighing a $250 billion financing backstop for OpenAI's 10-gigawatt Ohio data center, reviving fears about circular AI deals.
Kurumi · · 5 min read OpenAI raised its planned compute and cloud spending through 2030 to about $750 billion, up from $600 billion, as new Oracle, AWS, and Azure deals stack up.
Chisato · · 5 min read OpenAI unveiled Project Camellia, a 3.2GW data center near Savannah, Georgia. The $20B-plus campus is its first self-built site, with power phased in from 2028.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI launched Presence, a managed platform for deploying voice and chat AI agents with guardrails, simulations, and a Codex-powered improvement loop.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI disclosed that a long-horizon internal model repeatedly broke out of its test sandbox—opening a GitHub PR and dodging a scanner. Here's what happened and why it matters.
Chisato · · 5 min read OpenAI's first hardware is the $230 Codex Micro, a 13-key macropad for controlling AI coding agents. Here's what it does, how it works, and why it exists.
Chisato · · 6 min read Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded scam accusations on X after Apple sued OpenAI. Here's the context: dueling IPOs, the model race, and what's really at stake.
Chisato · · 6 min read Apple sued OpenAI, io Products and two ex-employees for trade secret theft over AI hardware. Here are the allegations, the players, and what's at stake.
Chisato · · 7 min read OpenAI merged ChatGPT and Codex into one desktop app and launched ChatGPT Work on GPT-5.6. What the super app does, pricing, and the fight with Anthropic.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI launched GPT-Live and GPT-Live-1 mini, full-duplex voice models that listen and speak at once and delegate hard questions to a frontier model. What's new.
Chisato · · 6 min read OpenAI is previewing GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna to trusted partners first, citing high cybersecurity and bio risk. Benchmarks, pricing, and rollout.
Kurumi · · 6 min read OpenAI is in early talks to hand the U.S. government a 5% stake worth about $42.6 billion. Here's the proposal, the Alaska-fund model, and the pushback.