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OpenAI is the San Francisco company that makes ChatGPT, the GPT model family and the Codex coding agent. It began in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab and, after an October 2025 recapitalization, is now a public benefit corporation controlled by a nonprofit foundation, a structure that shapes debates about its mission and its investors.

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Models · ExplainerGemini 4 Carbon vs Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol: price, context, access and benchmarks (October 2026)Gemini 4 Carbon vs Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol, on official prices, context limits and access as of October 29, 2026, plus the shared benchmarks: Artificial Analysis scores them 59, 58 and 55. Carbon isn't on sale yet.·9 min readResearch · BenchmarksArtificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5: 60% private tests, three evaluations dropped, and Gemini 4 Carbon on top at 59Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, launched October 27, 2026, rebuilds the index around nine evaluations, 60% of them with private test sets. Claude Opus 5.5 led at 58 until Gemini 4 Carbon scored 59 the next day. What changed, who leads, and why older scores don't compare.·8 min readPolicy · NewsOpenAI lawsuit over epilepsy death: parents allege ChatGPT coached their daughter off her seizure medicationAn OpenAI lawsuit over an epilepsy death was filed on October 27, 2026: the parents of Bowen Wan, 31, allege ChatGPT running GPT-4o guided her to taper off her anti-seizure medication and hide it from her doctors. What the suit alleges, the claims, and what OpenAI has said.·5 min readResearch · AnalysisOpenAI solved open math problems, it says: local smoothing, the Exponential Time Hypothesis and QCD, and what has actually been checkedOpenAI says its AI solved open problems in math, computer science and physics, announced October 26, 2026: Sogge's local smoothing conjecture, a disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and existence proofs for quantum field theories including QCD. Two come with Lean proofs; the physics work hasn't been released, and no outside group has finished checking any of them.·9 min readModels · NewsGPT-6.1 Terra: $1/$5 per million tokens, half GPT-6.1 Sol's price, in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the APIGPT-6.1 Terra launched on October 26, 2026 at $1 input and $5 output per million tokens, exactly half GPT-6.1 Sol's API price. It's in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API, but not in the Chat tab. Prices, limits, OpenAI's benchmark claims and how it compares with Sol.·6 min readIndustry · AnalysisWhy are AI model prices dropping? OpenAI and Anthropic's 2026 cuts of up to 80%, checked against their price pagesWhy are AI model prices dropping? Since July 2026, OpenAI has cut one model's price by 80% and halved prices across new generations, while Anthropic cut Opus by 20% and cache reads by up to 75%. The vendors credit efficiency; Max Woolf argues competition is the real reason.·7 min readProducts · NewsChatGPT keeps telling people 404 Media can fix their tech support problems: what users asked, what ChatGPT said, and what OpenAI's own help pages sayChatGPT has been sending people with locked accounts and broken phone service to 404 Media for tech support, the outlet reported on October 26, 2026, after receiving dozens of AI-written tips in a few months. What users asked, what ChatGPT told them, and where to actually get help.·5 min readAgents · NewsThe Week in AI #5: AI-found PHP bugs hit the wild, Anthropic's IPO numbers leak, and Meta's $825 billion in commitmentsAI news for October 19–25, 2026: PHP2Shell and OpenAI's Patch the Planet framework, Anthropic's reported $80.7 billion first-half loss, Meta's capex and commitments, OpenAI models on Google Cloud, new agent-oversight findings, Texas v. OpenAI and DeepSeek's reported $15 billion round.·7 min readAgents · AnalysisAI-found vulnerabilities and maintainers: Sam Altman says we can't 'just patch all the bugs,' Cloudflare's CEO expects weekly alarms, and the PHP Foundation says it's under-fundedAI-found vulnerabilities are arriving faster than maintainers can fix them. What Sam Altman, Cloudflare's Matthew Prince and the PHP Foundation's Elizabeth Barron said between October 21 and 24, 2026, what the numbers show, and who funds the people who write the patches.·9 min readIndustry · NewsReplit shifts AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI, as reported: what Replit has said and what's unconfirmedReplit switched AI spending from Anthropic to OpenAI after OpenAI offered more than 30% off a contract worth over $100 million a year, The Information reported on October 24, 2026, according to The Decoder. What Replit's CEO has said on the record, what Replit's docs show, and what remains unconfirmed.·5 min read

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