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OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Cyber on Nov 5 for authorized vulnerability research. It scores 48.5% on ExploitGym (up from 32.1%), is rated Critical under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, and starts on Daybreak Red for approved customers.
OpenAI says an autonomous cyber pipeline reproduced 1,724 Linux kernel bugs and built working local privilege-escalation exploits for 948 of them in one mid-October run, at about $1.2 million in API cost.
OpenAI says Astra designed a device's case, circuit board and firmware with no direct human edits. Two people did it in under a week, but it still needed rounds of manufacturing fixes.
Starting in December, OpenAI says ChatGPT and Codex usage on Plus, Pro and Business plans will come from one token-based allowance. Instant chats won't count. What changes, what's still unknown, and how to check your usage.
OpenAI lowered its latest funding-round target from $30 billion to about $20 billion and its valuation from $1.4 trillion to $1.25 trillion, with about $11 billion committed, according to FT and WSJ reports on Oct 31, 2026.
On 26 Oct 2026 OpenAI said an internal model produced a Lean-verified refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Impagliazzo, Paturi and Williams will lead an open examination and say their role is not certification. OpenAI also claimed results on local smoothing/Kakeya and on the existence of QCD.
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on 26 Oct 2026: $1 / $5 per million input/output tokens, a 1.05M-token context window, 50.3% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at max effort, and a 'Critical' cybersecurity rating under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework.
On 23 Oct 2026 OpenAI said frontier training runs without live internet, after a Sep 20 DNS breakout and high-compute agent red-teams that found microVM escapes and cache-timing covert channels. RL resumed Oct 1.
