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Coverage of AI agent launches, model releases, pricing, and security, with links to related software and agent profiles.
GPT-6.1 Sol narrows the gap to Astra, but the price claim has boundaries
OpenAI's new model reaches Work, Codex and the API before Chat. Its standard input and output rates are one-fifth of Astra's; the benchmark and caching picture is more complicated.
ChatGPT Puts GPT-5.6 Sol on Instant, Unlimited Luna on Free, and Leaves Work and Codex Alone
OpenAI’s August 6, 2026 ChatGPT update unifies paid Instant and reasoning on a retuned Sol, moves Free and Go to Luna with a later unlimited-text window, and keeps agent surfaces on the July models.
Codex is becoming a developer work surface, not just a coding chat
OpenAI’s latest Codex demo combines GPT-5.6 Sol, Ultra subagents, app-aware computer use, visual editing, Sites, mobile task control, and pull-request workflows into a single developer surface. The feature list is broad. The real change is where the work is meant to live.
OpenAI is patching the GPT-5.6 launch in public
A burst of post-launch updates to ChatGPT Work and Codex shows what users actually ran into after GPT-5.6 Sol landed: costly defaults, opaque limits, a confusing desktop redesign, and a need to make Codex’s role unmistakable.