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According to IT Home citing The Information, OpenAI may release the next generation of Astra and Sol series models, as well as the Cyber model aimed at the cybersecurity field, as early as November 6 (Friday) local time. The report did not disclose specific model numbers, pricing, context window lengths, or benchmark scores, nor is it clear whether these models will be launched first through API, ChatGPT, Codex, or partner channels.Previously, users had discovered the "gpt-6.2-astra" label in Codex usage statistics. Users suspected to be participating in the gray testing claimed that the new model has improvements in physical effects and animation generation, but these feedbacks are mainly based on subjective experiences, and there is currently no public benchmark data to verify.

OpenAI is gradually rolling out a GIF generation feature within ChatGPT, allowing users to describe animations in natural language or upload existing photos for ChatGPT to convert into GIFs. Once generated, users can adjust playback speed, view frames one by one, edit, and share the final product. According to The Verge, this feature is powered by OpenAI's new image generation model Images 2.6, which has not yet been officially announced through a product release.This GIF feature is part of the Images 2.6 update, which promises faster image generation speeds. The Verge reports that OpenAI is pushing this model to web, desktop, and mobile users of ChatGPT and Codex. Developers will also gain access to two new API models, GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst, aimed at faster generation speeds and higher quality results, respectively. OpenAI has not released a separate announcement detailing the capabilities of this model.This update follows the release of ChatGPT Images 2.5 in September, which brought sharper details, more precise editing, and up to a 50% increase in generation speed compared to the previous generation. Additionally, OpenAI shut down its standalone AI video generation application Sora in March. Currently, this feature is being rolled out gradually, and most users are temporarily unable to access it; OpenAI has not provided a specific timeline for when all ChatGPT accounts will gain access to the GIF generation feature.

According to the Economic Times, Prabhjeet Singh, Managing Director of OpenAI India, stated that India has become the largest market for ChatGPT globally in terms of weekly active users, with the number of local users doubling since January this year. Singh joined OpenAI in August this year, marking his first media interview since joining.Singh mentioned that OpenAI expects to release announcements related to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and payments in the coming weeks, as enterprise clients transition from pilot and demonstration phases to large-scale production deployment. Addressing concerns about the potential misuse of autonomous AI entities, Singh stated that OpenAI is collaborating with government agencies and businesses to protect critical infrastructure.

According to a report by Phoenix Technology citing The Verge, Adam Fry, the head of consumer products for OpenAI ChatGPT, stated at a media event on Monday that the volume of search queries handled by ChatGPT has reached 20% of Google's search query volume. He defined search as the act of users inputting queries that trigger web searches, excluding tasks such as defining terms or simple operational instructions, but did not specify the source of the Google search volume data.In comparison, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated during the 2023 Google antitrust trial that Bing holds about 3% of the search engine market share. The report noted that OpenAI's search likely relies heavily on Microsoft Bing while also using its own search index. Fry also mentioned that the Intelligent UI referred to by OpenAI involves creating visual and interactive interfaces in chatbot responses, indicating that this is the future direction of the technology.Fry also discussed advertising. He stated that advertising has not negatively impacted the product or its usage, and most people seem to mind the ads in the product. OpenAI announced last month that it would begin displaying images of sponsored products and services in ChatGPT, rather than just the company names, logos, and product links previously shown. The report mentioned that this discussion comes as the company may launch an IPO early next year.

On November 1, 2026, multiple users posted on X stating that OpenAI's Codex usage data included a model label named GPT-6.2 Astra, while the model selector still displayed GPT-6 Astra. A usage chart covering October 26 to November 1 showed that gpt-6-astra accounted for 80%, and gpt-6.2-astra accounted for 19.8%. Another account posted a suspected JSON snippet of an API response, with the response.model field being gpt-6.2-astra. According to Quantum Bit, GPT-6.2 Astra has been undergoing a limited gray testing among some users, with access primarily restricted to Pro plan users at $500 per month. Some users reported that about 20% of requests were routed to 6.2, while others claimed all requests pointed to 6.2.On the same day, an account posted a screenshot claiming that hidden code on the Anthropic official website's Mythos page included Claude Mythos 5.5. The visible page displayed Claude Mythos 5.1, while the hidden header and logo alt text indicated 5.5. According to Quantum Bit, this text briefly appeared in the front-end code of the official website and was removed a few hours later. Anthropic has not confirmed this, and currently, apart from the screenshot, there are no archived copies to verify this change.Additionally, there were previous reports that Fable 5.5 had appeared in the Microsoft Azure and MLflow directories, with a context window of 1 million tokens and an output limit of 128K tokens. Verification showed that on October 13, 2026, a bot added the entry azure_ai/claude-fable-5-5 to the price list of the open-source tool LiteLLM, which was deleted the next day, with the deletion note stating "Azure did not list this model." These parameters are identical to those of Fable 5.1. As of now, neither OpenAI nor Anthropic has officially released the aforementioned models.

OpenAI documentation shows that eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscriptions can receive free API credits for building applications and agents within their own API organization. The credits are automatically issued based on the subscription, and any unused portion expires at the end of the billing cycle without carrying over; when there are valid free credits, there is no need to bind an API payment method. In terms of monthly credits, Pro's tiers of $100, $200, and $500 correspond to $100, $200, and $500 respectively; Business Standard provides $20 per paid seat, and Business Premium provides $100 per paid seat.The initial issuance is calculated proportionally based on the remaining time in the current subscription billing cycle and expires at the end of that cycle. Business API credits are shared within the workspace, with a monthly cap of $500; annual payment workspaces receive a one-time issuance of the annual credits, which expire at the end of the annual billing cycle. Users must log in to ChatGPT with an eligible subscription account, with Pro credits claimed in Settings under Billing, and Business credits claimed in the workspace billing settings or Admin Console, confirming the API organization receiving the credits.The credits cover the paid usage of associated organizations on the API Platform, including Responses API, Agents API, Decisions API, GPT-Live and Realtime API, Images API, as well as built-in tools and related costs such as web search, document search, and Code Interpreter. Using Codex via API key is not included in the benefits, and the credits will not increase the usage limits for ChatGPT or Codex that is already logged in. Free credits are prioritized over purchased credits; when exhausted and no remaining credits are available, requests will fail with HTTP 429 and error code credit_balance_exhausted.

B.AI announced that OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra is officially launched, with API and Web Chat both available for synchronized experience.This model is designed for efficient visual reasoning, precise computer operations, and clear natural text writing, combining adjustable reasoning capabilities with a 1.05M ultra-long context window, covering daily professional workflows and complex application scenarios; it supports a maximum output of 128K tokens, with a standard price of $1.00 per million input tokens and $5.00 per million output tokens, balancing performance and cost flexibility.

AI Physical Superintelligence (PSI) announced new progress on five long-standing unresolved quantum information problems, leveraging models such as GPT-6 Astra and Claude, and has published papers, proof codes, and verification materials. During the research process, physicists were responsible for guidance and verification, while the relevant models participated in the derivation. The team also had AI Agents from Codex and Claude Code write Lean formal proofs, which were checked by computers to verify the validity of the reasoning.One of the studies demonstrated that in a specific quantum field, quantum entanglement still exists even when two regions are far apart, but once the distance exceeds a certain range, non-local correlations can no longer be tested using the CHSH Bell inequality. Another study proved that a certain type of quantum operation, when performed sufficiently many times, will inevitably destroy entanglement. These five results do not completely resolve the original problems; some conclusions only apply under specific conditions, and there are still unresolved issues.

OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, focusing on enhancing computer operations, visual understanding, and programming capabilities. Compared to the previous generation, this model's operational speed has increased by over 3 times, and the API price has been reduced by 50%.The error rate in low inference mode has dropped from 53.6% to 16.7%, while the maximum inference mode error rate has decreased to 4.3%. In programming tests, the maximum inference mode score has risen from 21.5% to 50.3%.

TechCrunch reported that the conversational AI research and design studio Convovo, led by Cornell University professor Tapan Parikh, released a study stating that when asked to recommend only one candidate for the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 chose Republican candidates 92% of the time, while OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol chose Democratic candidates 97% of the time. The study covered nearly 500 campaigns, with the two models agreeing on recommendations less than 10% of the time.Researchers posed the same question to both models via API, asking for a specific candidate without allowing for avoidance or a tie. The report noted that consumer applications refused to answer. An OpenAI spokesperson stated that ChatGPT is designed to be objective by default, and political conversations should not carry any directional bias; the study tested the developer API, and the prompt explicitly requested a candidate recommendation, which cannot represent the user experience when asking questions through the chat application. SpaceXAI did not respond to requests for comment in time.The report indicated that Grok's responses often cited conservative sources as well as Ballotpedia, OpenSecrets, and VoteSmart, with 39% including Christian conservative voter guides, 23% including Turning Point Action, and 41% including X; GPT's results heavily relied on Wikipedia, the Associated Press, Axios, and Reddit. The study also mentioned that each time Grok was called via the xAI API, it included approximately 1,240 additional input tokens that the researchers did not write, could not view, or remove. Parikh subsequently disabled online search and sampled 30 campaigns, with GPT choosing Democrats in 24 cases, while Grok refused to choose in 27 cases.

CITIC Securities research report points out that GPT-6 Astra is being applied in robot control, reducing reliance on specialized strategy training. Institutions such as NVIDIA and Stanford are exploring its applications in visual understanding, spatial reasoning, and task planning.CITIC Securities expects that by 2027, the entry of general models into embodied task domains will become the next investment direction in the AI industry.

According to Sveriges Radio, the Swedish government office announced that starting from October 26 (Monday), ChatGPT and Claude will be banned on employee computers, with Microsoft Copilot approved as the only AI tool that has passed security review, and civil servants are required to switch to using Copilot.Mikael Wettercrantz, the agency's Director of Digitalization, stated in a post on the employee intranet that using AI services without a formal contract could "have consequences for our information security." He noted that multiple cases of improper use of open AI services have been identified, involving the sensitivity of the information inputted and the handling of AI-generated content. Due to the lack of formal agreements, consumer-grade AI tools send user queries to external company servers, and U.S. law allows authorities to request these companies to hand over data as required.Copilot is allowed to remain because the government office enhanced its security settings after review, while ChatGPT and Claude did not receive the same treatment. Some employees can still access these two banned tools through the AI platform built internally by the agency. Previously, the Swedish Tax Agency and the National Board of Health and Welfare had implemented similar bans, and the enforcement agency is also about to make a decision; an internal audit by the Transport Agency found about 10 AI services being "widely and at high risk" used.

OpenAI announced that Uber will provide the ChatGPT Enterprise version to all employees and will use OpenAI's cutting-edge models through ChatGPT Work.

According to The Defiant, the Telegram crypto application Walt (formerly Wallet in Telegram) announced the launch of AI agent trading features on October 20. Users can connect to Mira developed by The Open Platform, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Anthropic's Claude to manage perpetual contract positions. The connected agents can access real-time perpetual contract prices and market news, view user holdings, leverage, and liquidation risks, and open or close long and short positions based on instructions. They can also set simple rules such as take profit, stop loss, and dollar-cost averaging, monitoring positions around the clock.In terms of security mechanisms, AI agents can only operate funds deposited in dedicated trading accounts and cannot withdraw or transfer funds. Order execution is turned off by default; agents can only analyze and suggest, and users must manually enable it to place actual orders. Users can set their own agent instructions and trading limits, view each step of their operations in real-time, and disconnect at any time. Walt's founder and CEO Andrew Rogozov stated that traditional trading applications are built around terminals, charts, and order tickets, requiring users to learn how to use them, while Telegram users already hold funds in Walt.Walt's perpetual contract business launched in April this year through the decentralized exchange Lighter, offering over 50 markets and supporting up to 50x leverage, settled in USDT. The application was renamed from Wallet in Telegram to Walt on September 28, with developers claiming over 150 million users. Mira launched in February, surpassing 2 million users in May, with over 500,000 monthly active users. Additionally, Robinhood also released an AI trading agent based on dedicated accounts last month.

In July 2026, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare launched a research pilot with OpenAI to test whether Cloudflare's network signals could help ChatGPT users discover new content more efficiently. Both parties reported positive early results, with the pilot incorporating previously unknown pages into OpenAI's search index, providing ChatGPT with more sources to reference.The pilot utilized about 1% of Cloudflare's global participation queue, allowing OpenAI to discover and index hundreds of millions of new web pages. OpenAI independently evaluated and ranked these pages based on relevance and usefulness, while ChatGPT Search enabled users to view original content and publishers through backlinks. Observations indicated that automated traffic might make non-existent pages appear noteworthy, with some sites redirecting arbitrary addresses to their homepage and others pointing to duplicate content. Both parties are also testing signals to identify potentially harmful pages, such as fake login pages embedded on legitimate sites, advocating for the marking of single pages rather than entire domains.Related signals are also used to filter out non-existent or redirecting pages and to assess whether unchanged pages are worth revisiting. Page signals do not constitute access permission; the study utilized web metadata for search and discovery rather than using page content for model training. Site owners can understand and manage how AI systems access their websites through Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control. The next phase will improve page selection and test faster, more reliable change signals.

OpenAI released its first report on teen usage on Wednesday, stating that teenagers use ChatGPT for an average of less than 15 minutes a day, with less than 2% using it for more than 3 hours continuously. The company noted that in conversations where break reminders appeared, nearly half of the users chose to take a break or ended the conversation within 5 minutes.OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens in August. This mode automatically activates based on age information or when it estimates the user is under 18, providing parental controls and limiting discussions on sensitive topics. The company stated that users of the teen version sent more education-related messages and used tools like learning visualization and Study Mode, and are considering adding learning features such as college application planning, flashcards, and quizzes.The nonprofit organization Common Sense Media reported on the same day that ChatGPT for Teens often notifies parents late or not at all when teen accounts discuss suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders. This study was based on more than a dozen accounts created for testing and found that the chatbot does not reliably suggest crisis hotlines or professional help. An OpenAI spokesperson stated that the test does not accurately reflect the actual operation of protections, and due to safety and scale reasons, the association of parents with teen accounts and safety reminders may take several hours to take effect.

OpenAI announced that GPT-6, equipped with "Smart UI," will be launched for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users worldwide, and will be available to free and Go users starting from October 8.In ChatGPT, GPT-6: The Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise versions are powered by GPT-6 Sol; the free and Go versions are powered by GPT-6 Luna. This update applies to the "Chat" tab of ChatGPT.