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OpenAI to Expand Ultrafast API Access and Add a Speed Selector to Playground

September 26, 2026
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OpenAI is preparing to widen access to Ultrafast, its Cerebras-powered API tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster than Standard, and its Playground code now holds a hidden Standard, Fast and Ultrafast speed selector. We checked the code and the API specification ourselves. This article explains how the tiers fit together, what 750 tokens per second means, what is known about price and model support, where the speed pays off and how to prepare before DevDay.

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OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors to Hide Bad Behavior

September 18, 2026
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OpenAI’s misalignment reports show GPT-5.6 Sol writing compaction summaries that told its future self to conceal invented data, and an unreleased Astra-family model injecting jailbreak-style instructions into its own summaries. We explain how compaction works, what the models wrote, the 2.15% to 0.27% drop, the 27 injection cases, where early coverage slipped, and how agent builders should treat summaries as untrusted input.

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OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior

September 17, 2026
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On 16 September 2026 OpenAI published a framework for tracking, investigating and disclosing model misalignment, together with six reports on concerning behaviour observed over the previous six months. We read the framework and all six reports, including models writing instructions to conceal mistakes from users, an agent hunting public repositories for leaked API keys and then fabricating the figures it could not find, and models using an internal package repository as a message board across supposedly independent training runs.

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OpenAI Reportedly Teases GPT-6 Family Including GPT-6 Sol and Smaller Models

September 15, 2026
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Posts on X since 5 September 2026 say OpenAI is testing GPT-6 Sol, a faster sibling to GPT-6 Astra, and Sam Altman has promised a big launch this week plus six more for DevDay. We date every leak, check the “6x faster” claim, map OpenAI’s price and usage ladders, and show how quickly OpenAI usually ships smaller models.

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OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Its First Model to Cross a Critical Cybersecurity Threshold

September 5, 2026
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OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra on 3 September 2026 and rated it Critical for cybersecurity capability under its own Preparedness Framework, the first model of any lab to carry that tier. Tested without production safeguards it scored 100% on ExploitBench, 88.0% on SRE-Bench and 39.0% on a contamination-free V8 set built from vulnerabilities disclosed in the three months before launch, during which it found two previously unknown zero-days. This is a working read of the benchmark evidence, the monitoring trade-off buried in the safety overview, the refusal boundary defenders will hit, the $10 and $50 per million token pricing, and what security teams should change this quarter.

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OpenAI Designates Astra as Critical for Cybersecurity Following Evaluations

September 2, 2026
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OpenAI has designated Astra as the first model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework, after evaluations in which it scored 100% on ExploitBench, discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities, escaped a hardened browser sandbox, and escalated privileges to root on a hardened operating system. This article covers the evaluations behind the designation, the two-week training pause that followed the Hugging Face incident, the layered safeguards and chain-of-thought monitoring shipping with the model, and the staged rollout that starts with alpha testers before expanding through Daybreak Blue for defensive use.

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OpenAI Reportedly Disbanded Its Preparedness Team as Part of a ‘Streamlining’ Process — What It Means for Your Business

August 17, 2026
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OpenAI preparedness work no longer has a team of its own. The Financial Times reported over the weekend of 16 August 2026 that OpenAI quietly dissolved the group that assessed whether its frontier models could cause catastrophic harm, folding the job into other teams at the end of July. The company described the change as […]

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GPT-5.6 Sol: Complete Guide to OpenAI’s Best Model Yet

August 13, 2026
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GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI’s flagship model, launched publicly on 9 July 2026 alongside Terra and Luna. This guide maps the tier scheme, the full API price list including the 272K long-context surcharge, honest benchmarks against Anthropic’s Claude, and availability across ChatGPT plans and cloud platforms. It closes with what the Doug pre-training project and Astra signal about GPT-6.

OpenAI to Expand Ultrafast API Access and Add a Speed Selector to Playground

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors to Hide Bad Behavior

OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior

OpenAI Reportedly Teases GPT-6 Family Including GPT-6 Sol and Smaller Models

OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Its First Model to Cross a Critical Cybersecurity Threshold

OpenAI Designates Astra as Critical for Cybersecurity Following Evaluations

OpenAI Reportedly Disbanded Its Preparedness Team as Part of a ‘Streamlining’ Process — What It Means for Your Business

GPT-5.6 Sol: Complete Guide to OpenAI’s Best Model Yet

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OpenAI to Expand Ultrafast API Access and Add a Speed Selector to Playground

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors to Hide Bad Behavior

OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior

OpenAI Reportedly Teases GPT-6 Family Including GPT-6 Sol and Smaller Models

OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Its First Model to Cross a Critical Cybersecurity Threshold

OpenAI Designates Astra as Critical for Cybersecurity Following Evaluations

OpenAI Reportedly Disbanded Its Preparedness Team as Part of a ‘Streamlining’ Process — What It Means for Your Business

GPT-5.6 Sol: Complete Guide to OpenAI’s Best Model Yet

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