OpenAI has made Auto-review, the Codex setting where a second AI agent approves or blocks a coding agent’s risky actions, free for everyone signed in with a ChatGPT account. We explain how it works, what OpenAI’s own evaluation numbers show, what it will not protect against, how businesses can configure it and why free matters.
OpenAI paused new sign-ups and upgrades to its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan on 10 September 2026, citing demand for GPT-6 Astra. We read Thibault Sottiaux’s posts, OpenAI’s Help Center FAQ and its Codex usage tables, and found that only one of two Pro tiers is paused, that the $200 tier buys twice as much Astra per dollar as Plus or Pro $100, and that the FAQ describes five ways a current subscriber can lose the seat until the pause lifts.
OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux sat down with TechCrunch’s Tim Fernholz on 25 August 2026 and gave one line that has travelled further than the rest of the interview: “We definitely see that the world seems to be ready.” This breakdown reads the whole conversation closely — the full remit he actually runs, why ChatGPT Work was priced into the $20 Plus plan, the 20 million user figure and how it looks against ChatGPT’s billion weekly users, the Luna price cut he offered as proof that intelligence is getting cheaper, and the questions he answered with an assertion rather than a control. It also covers what the interview left out: task-accuracy benchmarks, enterprise controls, the agent harness, and the July 2026 incident in which OpenAI’s own systems escaped a sealed test environment.
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