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  • Oct 16, 2026
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    ChatGPT Enterprise/EDU by OpenAI

    October 16, 2026

    ChatGPT Enterprise/EDU retires administrator-managed sync connectors and adds content controls for real-time Google Drive, Microsoft Teams, and Outlook access, alongside an updated Admin Console page for managing external app access and permissions.

    Administrator-managed sync connectors have been retired. Use the real-time Google Drive, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams apps to access supported content. New content controls are available for real-time Google Drive, Microsoft Teams, and Outlook Email access in Enterprise workspaces where these controls are enabled.

    Workspace owners and admins can review the controls under Safety & Security Controls in each app’s workspace settings. Each user’s existing Google or Microsoft permissions still apply. For setup, see: Managing Google Drive access in ChatGPT, Managing Microsoft Teams access in ChatGPT, and Managing Outlook email sensitivity-label exclusions.

    Updated External access controls in Admin Console

    The updated External access page in Admin Console gives global admins one place to review what external applications can access. Set organization defaults and app-specific permissions for Sign in with ChatGPT, access to connected apps, and Ads account data. You can also review connected users and disable an app’s access.

    Existing saved policies and app approvals remain in effect. To review your organization’s settings, open External access in Admin Console. For details, see: Managing your tenant in Admin Console.

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    ChatGPT by OpenAI

    October 16, 2026

    ChatGPT launches Slides for creating, editing, presenting, and collaborating on decks, with export options across web and desktop. It also updates GPT-6 Pro with faster responses, improved tool use, and parallel agents, rolling out to eligible users.

    Create and collaborate on slides in ChatGPT

    ChatGPT Slides lets you create presentations and keep working on them with your team in Space. Start from a conversation, files, or an outline, or share an example deck to guide the style and layout.

    • Create and refine. Edit text, images, shapes, and charts directly, or ask ChatGPT to make changes. Generate custom images or add your own.
    • Work together. Invite teammates to edit the same deck in real time and leave shared comments.
    • Present or export. Present directly from ChatGPT. On the web, export to PowerPoint, PDF, or Google Slides. In the desktop app, open your deck in PowerPoint or Keynote when those apps are installed.

    Slides is rolling out to eligible Pro, Business, and Enterprise users with Space access on the web and in the desktop app. To get started, ask ChatGPT in Work to create a presentation in Space.

    Updates to GPT-6 Pro model in ChatGPT

    GPT-6 Pro in the chat tab now offers:

    • Faster responses
    • Improved use of plugins and tools to carry out tasks.
    • Multiple agents that can work on different parts of a task in parallel. You can follow their progress in the conversation and open completed tasks to see what each agent did.

    This update is rolling out to eligible Pro users in ChatGPT. Availability in managed workspaces depends on workspace settings and rollout eligibility.

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    Codex by OpenAI

    0.163.0

    Codex releases a feature-rich update with searchable settings, instant response steering, configurable shortcuts, and easier server restarts. It also improves parallel tool use, thread recovery, network safeguards, and Windows clipboard support, while enabling Daybreak for eligible accounts.

    New Features

    • Open /config to search preferences across categories, change supported settings immediately, and see which changes require a restart. (#52990, #53429)
    • Send a follow-up while Codex is responding to steer it immediately. Interrupting a turn also stops active Code Mode cells and their nested tool calls. (#51812, #51835)
    • Configure a leader key in /keymap. The default is Ctrl+X, shortcut hints stay open until you choose or cancel, and voice mute moves to F9. (#52273)
    • Restart a managed background server from /daemon. Codex warns about work the restart could interrupt, then reconnects automatically. (#53173)
    • Codex can run independent read-only tools in parallel, including skill, memory, and conversation-history lookups. (#52245)
    • Daybreak is enabled by default for eligible accounts. codex exec can also select it with an OpenAI API key when the server offers access. (#53701, #53717)

    Bug Fixes

    • Resuming a saved thread restores its permissions and network approvals, while respecting explicit overrides and current managed policy. (#53150, #53419, #53424)
    • The network proxy now checks permission before a DNS lookup, rejects duplicate Host headers, and prevents credential aliases from bypassing inspection hooks. (#51650, #52661, #53506)
    • Return to an existing side conversation with /side after switching threads. Answers to pending prompts also go back to the thread that asked. (#52184, #53436)
    • On Windows, Ctrl+V and Shift+Insert paste text as well as images. On WSL, repeated pastes reuse the clipboard reader, and copy attempts time out instead of hanging. (#53224, #52967, #53453)
    • Local commands finish promptly when a child keeps an output pipe open. Remote commands preserve late-arriving output so the final poll can still collect it. (#52652, #53331, #53622)
    • codex exec no longer prints the same file diff again after an unrelated command. (#53444)

    Documentation

    • Updated the bundled OpenAI Docs guidance for migrations to the GPT-6 family, including model-specific reasoning, tool use, and data residency considerations. (#51768)
    • Clarified how the Linux sandbox uses bubblewrap for filesystem isolation and seccomp for syscall filtering. (#52610)

    Chores

    • Codex now uses its standard shell executor and no longer bundles a patched zsh. Configurations using the retired shell flags receive a migration notice. (#52160, #52213)
    • Reduced Linux and macOS release package size by stripping symbols from packaged binaries while preserving them in the original build outputs. (#52178)

    Changelog

    Full Changelog: rust-v0.162.0...rust-v0.163.0

    • #51539 Add completion-aware realtime attachment and session-scoped detach @zahan-oai
    • #51547 Add a Windows MXC sandbox opt-out @iceweasel-oai
    • #51556 Complete dynamic tool lifecycles on cancellation @mikelam-oai
    • #51575 Expose package assembly helpers and support gzip DotSlash artifacts @bolinfest
    • #51595 Add thread ID exclusions to thread/list @btraut-openai
    • #51602 Distinguish thread listing failures from exhausted history @btraut-openai
    • #51611 Signal abandonment of unanswered MCP elicitations @nicksteele-oai
    • #51627 Stabilize Guardian snapshot prefixes by separating assistant context @jif-oai
    • #51642 Fix retained context handling for typed section content @jif-oai
    • #51650 Require hostname authorization before proxy DNS lookups @jif-oai
    • #51651 Persist Guardian review failures for reports across restarts @jif-oai
    • #51652 Record telemetry for AGENTS.md changes made by apply_patch @jif-oai
    • #51678 Move Windows sandbox tests into a dedicated integration binary @jif-oai
    • #51683 Roll back stale Guardian reviews before reusing reviewer history @olliem-oai
    • #51689 Wait for helper completion in HTTP header cancellation tests @jif-oai
    • #51690 Add a feature flag for Code Mode tool description ordering @swastik-oai
    • #51704 Honor tool-description-first ordering in Code Mode @swastik-oai
    • #51710 Fix a discovery race in the external auth refresh test @jgershen-oai
    • #51734 Load persisted sender context for Guardian reviews @jif-oai
    • #51755 Reuse MCP handler metadata for cache comparisons @owenlin0
    • #51761 Reduce tool metadata cloning in the code-mode runtime @akira-oai
    • #51768 Expand OpenAI Docs migration guidance to the GPT-6 model family @kkahadze-oai
    • #51775 Prevent recursive Tokio tracing in telemetry and SQLite logs @zbarsky-openai
    • #51786 Preserve sandbox overrides across execution requests @iceweasel-oai
    • #51794 Advertise Ultrafast for GPT-6.1 Sol on Amazon Bedrock @celia-oai
    • #51800 Remove duplicate field initializers in extension registry tests @anp-oai
    • #51808 Preserve diagnostic reasons for MCP user verification failures @berkdeniz-oai
    • #51812 Enable instant interrupts by default @pakrym-oai
    • #51819 Migrate the MXC sandbox to the 1.0.0 SDK @iceweasel-oai
    • #51822 Avoid sharing violations when repairing Windows runtime ACLs @johnl-oai
    • #51823 Share MCP binding tool metadata with prepared calls @owenlin0
    • #51828 Add policy-based file contents integrity checks @iceweasel-oai
    • #51831 Add MXC sandbox integrity dependency and policy preparation @iceweasel-oai
    • #51835 Enable code mode interruption by default @won-openai
    • #51840 Add a bubblewrap backend for sandbox integrity checks @iceweasel-oai
    • #51841 Add a macOS Seatbelt backend for sandbox integrity @iceweasel-oai
    • #51842 Add a sandbox integrity runner with outcome and timing metrics @iceweasel-oai
    • #51843 Run sandbox integrity checks before commands and filesystem operations @iceweasel-oai
    • #51847 Preserve Cargo package names in Bazel Rust builds @dkovalenko-oai
    • #51848 Align Bazel release builds with Cargo and fix platform compatibility @dkovalenko-oai
    • #51849 Fix package smoke tests for Cargo and Bazel debug symbols @dkovalenko-oai
    • #51850 Add Bazel release staging archives @dkovalenko-oai
    • #51855 Add Bazel support to the Codex package build action @dkovalenko-oai
    • #51856 Build Bazel release artifacts alongside Cargo artifacts @dkovalenko-oai
    • #51857 Add an app-server prompt prefix compatibility test @jif-oai
    • #51865 Use readable plugin mentions without suppressing same-name skills @canvrno-oai
    • #51866 Preserve line breaks and links in multiline async questions @pash-openai
    • #51868 Record tool registration metrics for each sampling request @akira-oai
    • #51872 Keep global app-server config independent of the launch directory @etraut-openai
    • #51884 Add experimental prediction forks that inherit parent context @liame-oai
    • #51890 Add the missing mxc-sdk UTF-8 resource patch for Bazel @iceweasel-oai
    • #51892 Preserve tool call completeness when recorded arguments are truncated @ningyi-oai
    • #51893 Record metrics for incremental tool updates @akira-oai
    • #51895 Report specific reasons for WebSocket continuation failures @pakrym-oai
    • #51896 Preserve native errors in Windows sandbox ACL diagnostics @alishobeiri-oai
    • #51897 Use a dedicated matcher for network domain policies @rafael-oai
    • #51908 Honor the user input setting for asynchronous questions @mandal-OAI
    • #51930 Support model-specific function description prefixes @tz-openai
    • #51963 Attribute compaction analytics to the correct voice session @reia-oai
    • #51974 Log Windows sandbox availability and backend selection @iceweasel-oai
    • #52034 Preserve agent state when unloading idle multi-agent v2 children @jif-oai
    • #52040 Add regression coverage for cancelled agent reloads @jif-oai
    • #52048 Cover instant interruption in steered-input persistence tests @jif-oai
    • #52061 Run Guardian conversation classifiers concurrently and preserve action order @felixxia-oai
    • #52062 Add scenario coverage for worker context across idle eviction @jif-oai
    • #52065 Require assessment text in the Guardian parser @ioanbudea-OAI
    • #52081 Fix idle cleanup for disconnected multi-agent v2 children @jif-oai
    • #52119 Expose originating tool call metadata in command environments @leo-oai
    • #52160 Remove the patched zsh shell execution backend @jif-oai
    • #52164 Make environment context date and timezone configurable @surajs-oai
    • #52176 Show AWS GovCloud guidance at startup and remember acknowledgment @jackz100
    • #52177 Set a User-Agent for package archive downloads @bolinfest
    • #52178 Strip symbols from source-built release package binaries @bolinfest
    • #52182 Expose a verified sandbox launcher to local MCP servers @bolinfest
    • #52183 Add optional descriptions to agent message board channels @jif-oai
    • #52184 Preserve side conversations across thread navigation @etraut-openai
    • #52193 Enforce managed MXC requirements on Windows @iceweasel-oai
    • #52195 Track source attribution for individual context parts @tz-openai
    • #52200 Allow plugin toggles while searching and preserve filters on refresh @fcoury-oai
    • #52203 Expose Codex lifecycle status in iTerm2 sessions @fcoury-oai
    • #52213 Stop bundling patched zsh in Codex packages @jif-oai
    • #52215 Enforce application network policy in standalone MCP commands @lsingh-oai
    • #52220 Add configurable default plugin activation policy @stevenlee-oai
    • #52223 Enforce application network policy for daemon updates @jackz100
    • #52225 Fix config rebuild call in the Windows MXC preference test @virajrai-oai
    • #52226 Include foreground activity in iTerm2 session status @fcoury-oai
    • #52228 Honor API-key feature gates in TUI Daybreak selection @julee-oai
    • #52234 Support request IDs in exec-server WebSocket handshakes @mattj-openai
    • #52235 Recover gRPC code-mode sessions after missing-session errors @surajs-oai
    • #52241 Preserve subagent capabilities independently of forked history @anp-oai
    • #52245 Enable parallel execution for read-only tools @zamoshchin-openai
    • #52250 Add opt-in Guardian trust for orchestrator connector identities @ankushg
    • #52256 Normalize formatting in docs, web assets, and sample scripts @anp-oai
    • #52268 Preserve large arguments in executed tool call metadata @ningyi-oai
    • #52270 Enable text selection
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  • Oct 15, 2026
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    ChatGPT Business by OpenAI

    October 15, 2026

    ChatGPT Business now lets workspace admins manage up to 25 plugins at once, including making them available, installing them, or disabling them.

    Manage multiple plugins at once

    Workspace administrators can now manage up to 25 plugins at a time in Admin console. Make selected plugins available for installation, install them for the workspace, or disable them. Review dependencies before confirming, then check the result for each plugin.

    Available to ChatGPT Business workspaces. To get started, select your workspace in Admin console, open Plugins, select the plugins, and select Edit. Required-app access and provider permissions still apply. Learn more about managing plugins and apps.

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  • Oct 15, 2026
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    Teaching students to think and learn through questions

    OpenAI brings its AI for Educators course to Brazilian Portuguese and highlights Study Mode in ChatGPT, which guides learners through topics with questions, hints and explanations while supporting teachers’ classroom work.

    On Teachers’ Day, we celebrate those who help us learn. A good question can change the course of a lesson. It can bring an unspoken question to light, open up another way to solve a problem, or help someone recognize what they already know. Teachers do this work every day: they know their students, choose how to introduce an idea, and guide them from their first attempt to understanding.

    Set in a university classroom, the campaign takes a humorous look at the changing relationship between teachers and students and celebrates the role of educators in a world with AI.

    AI for Educators now available in Portuguese

    Today, we are launching the AI for Educators course in Brazilian Portuguese on OpenAI Academy, OpenAI’s free learning platform. Designed for educators in primary, secondary, and higher education, the course shows how to use AI to plan lessons, create activities and assessments, and prepare communications while preserving educators’ pedagogical judgment.

    Learning through active participation, step by step

    Study Mode helps you explore a subject step by step, with questions, hints, explanations, and checks for understanding. Developed in collaboration with teachers, scientists, and experts in pedagogy, the feature aims to encourage active participation and reflection on one’s own reasoning.

    To turn on Study Mode, select Study from the tools menu in ChatGPT.

    A student reviewing biology, for example, might ask: “I’m studying enzymes. Ask me one question at a time, wait for my answer, and help me identify what I need to review.”

    Teachers can also try Study Mode with subjects they know well, looking at whether the questions encourage reasoning and whether the explanations are appropriate for their class.

    In a science lesson on evaporation, for example, a teacher might ask students to investigate why clothes dry on a clothesline. After exploring the topic with Study Mode, each student writes their own explanation and a question to discuss in class, without referring back to the conversation. The teacher can use these responses to identify what needs to be revisited with the class.

    This Teachers’ Day, we invite you to experiment: explore the AI for Educators course, try Study Mode, and discover how these tools can be useful in different teaching contexts. Technology can open up new ways to learn, but it is teachers who know their students, ask the most important questions, and help turn curiosity into knowledge.

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    ChatGPT Enterprise/EDU by OpenAI

    October 15, 2026

    ChatGPT Enterprise/EDU adds Sites admin previews, private-network tunnels, and regional hosting details, while workspace admins can now manage up to 25 plugins at once with controls for availability, installation, and disabling.

    ChatGPT Sites updates for Enterprise

    Admin preview

    Sites admin preview is rolling out to eligible Enterprise workspaces. Admins can review who can create and share Sites before enabling Sites for members. Public publishing remains off by default in Enterprise workspaces and requires separate admin enablement.

    For member guidance, see: Creating and using ChatGPT Sites. For workspace controls, see: Managing ChatGPT Sites for your workspace.

    Data residency

    For workspaces with US or EU data residency, new Sites automatically use the workspace’s existing region for supported storage and hosting. Sites are available in workspaces with data residency in other regions, but that regional residency setting does not currently apply to Sites storage and hosting.

    Existing Sites stay in their current location and aren’t automatically migrated. Sites regional hosting is separate from inference residency for model processing. For more information, see: Data residency and inference residency for ChatGPT.

    Tunnels

    Tunnels are rolling out to eligible Enterprise workspaces. They connect Sites to services on your company’s private network without making those services public. Connecting a tunnel and publishing a Site that uses it publicly require separate permissions. For setup and access requirements, see: Connecting ChatGPT Sites to private services with tunnels.

    Manage multiple plugins at once

    Workspace administrators can now manage up to 25 plugins at a time in Admin console. Make selected plugins available for installation, install them for the workspace, or disable them. Review dependencies before confirming, then check the result for each plugin.

    Available to ChatGPT Enterprise, Healthcare, and Edu workspaces. Open Plugins, select the plugins, and select Edit. In workspaces with role-based access control enabled, Customize by role lets you change availability for a custom role or the workspace default. Required-app access and provider permissions still apply. Learn more about managing plugins and apps.

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    ChatGPT by OpenAI

    October 15, 2026

    ChatGPT adds GPT-Live-1.1 with more natural accents, new voice options and clearer search cues, while removing the fixed cap on Sites creation. Applications also open for eligible U.S. university labs seeking Rosalind Academic Plan access.

    GPT-Live-1.1 and new voices in ChatGPT

    We’re rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 and GPT-Live-1.1 Quip, a mini version of the model, in ChatGPT Voice, with more natural accents across languages. Live also uses a wider range of short phrases to let you know when it’s searching.

    New Live voices include options for French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Mexican Spanish, plus Bubbie in English. The voices you see may vary by region and account.

    To choose a voice, open Settings > Voice, then select Voice.

    For more information, see: ChatGPT Voice.

    Applications for the Rosalind Academic Plan

    The Rosalind Academic Plan helps eligible academic labs use ChatGPT for life sciences research. Approved labs can receive up to 30 ChatGPT Business Standard seats at no cost for up to 12 months, with GPT-Rosalind access subject to trusted-access approval.

    Applications are now open to labs at U.S. universities. If you’re a principal investigator or lab lead, apply on behalf of your lab. Applying doesn’t give your lab immediate access. After approval, follow the instructions to set up your workspace and enable access for approved members. Labs covered by an OpenAI Enterprise agreement should use their university’s access process. For eligibility and setup details, see: Rosalind Academic Plan.

    Site limits (Plus and Pro)

    There is no longer a fixed limit on the number of Sites you can create. Usage and storage limits continue to apply.

    For usage and limits, see: Creating and using ChatGPT Sites.

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    Bringing GPT‑Rosalind to academic research labs

    OpenAI launches the Rosalind Academic Plan, giving eligible U.S. university labs up to 30 free seats for a year, access to frontier models, and the option to request trusted access to GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research.

    Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible labs sponsored access to GPT‑Rosalind and tools for life sciences discovery.

    We’re introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan to help more academic scientists access GPT‑Rosalind, our dedicated life sciences model, which combines frontier reasoning with Rosalind workbench that enables specialized tool orchestration across medicinal chemistry, genomics, wet-lab assistance, and other scientific applications. Eligible labs can receive up to 30 Business Standard seats at no cost for up to 12 months, with access to GPT‑Rosalind subject to trusted-access approval.

    Academic research creates knowledge that entire fields build on. Work that begins with a fundamental question about biology can eventually change how we diagnose disease, develop medicines, or grow food. But those advances depend on scientists having the resources to explore ideas, test them, and share what they learn.

    Accelerating scientific discovery is central to OpenAI’s mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. With this plan, we’re investing in the scientists doing that foundational work—helping more labs combine their expertise and judgment with AI tools built for life sciences research.

    Supporting the research behind future breakthroughs

    Many of the advances we rely on today grew out of years of basic research.

    The Human Genome Project helped launch modern genomics, transforming medicine, diagnostics, and biotechnology.

    Curiosity-driven work on bacterial immune systems led to CRISPR-Cas9, which revolutionized genome editing and is now advancing research in cancer, inherited disease, agriculture, and biotechnology. Decades of university research on mRNA also laid the groundwork for COVID-19 vaccines and a new generation of vaccines and therapies.

    Academic research has always laid the groundwork for advances in medicine and biotechnology. By helping more scientists combine their scientific expertise and judgment with the advanced specialized reasoning of GPT‑Rosalind, we hope to support discoveries whose benefits reach far beyond the lab.

    How academic labs are using GPT‑Rosalind

    OpenAI is committed to enabling academic researchers to pursue their scientific ambitions. Distinguished academic labs are already exploring how GPT‑Rosalind can support work ranging from protein design to understanding neurodegeneration. These examples show where researchers are applying the model within their scientific workflows.

    Zhao Lab

    UCSF

    Quantitative Drug Development

    Gathering drug-property evidence to support modeling how medicines move through the body and produce effects.

    “GPT‑Rosalind helped me gather drug physicochemical parameters faster. PubChem and NCBI tools helped me work across ten drugs while refining the distinction between predicted and experimentally measured values”

    Zhao Lab, UCSF

    What the plan includes

    With the new Rosalind Academic Plan, academic researchers can bring GPT‑Rosalind and Rosalind Workbench to their lab with greater flexibility and harness frontier model intelligence for scientific research.

    Eligible labs receive:

    • Up to 30 Business Standard seats at $0 per user per month for up to 12 months.
    • Access to all commercially available frontier OpenAI models, subject to plan usage limits.
    • Access to GPT‑Rosalind following trusted-access approval.

    Research data shared through the Rosalind Academic Plan is not used to train our models by default.

    Build for life sciences research

    GPT‑Rosalind is a specialized life sciences model designed to support deeper reasoning on complex biological questions. Through trusted access, approved researchers can use it to investigate sensitive scientific questions within safeguards designed for legitimate research.

    Areas of research include:

    Drug and protein design

    Designing candidate drugs, therapeutic proteins, peptides, and enzymes, and optimizing their molecular interactions, selectivity, stability, and suitability for development.

    Apply on behalf of your lab

    The Rosalind Academic Plan is currently available to academic labs at U.S. universities. PIs and lab leads at universities without an OpenAI Enterprise agreement can apply on behalf of their labs through our trusted access process. Labs at universities with an existing agreement must apply through their university’s Enterprise access process.

    Once approved, PIs and lab leads can activate free access to GPT‑Rosalind for up to 30 named members, alongside the other OpenAI frontier models included in the plan. API access is not included at this time. Verified PIs and lab leads manage member permissions and are responsible for their lab’s approved use.

    Get started with GPT‑Rosalind

    Choose the application path for your lab or organization.

    Academic labs

    Rosalind Academic Plan

    For PIs and lab leads at eligible organizations without an existing Enterprise account.

    Apply on behalf of your lab.

    Existing Enterprise accounts

    GPT-Rosalind access

    For academic users at eligible institutions with an existing OpenAI Enterprise agreement.

    Request access through your existing Enterprise account.

    GPT‑Rosalind access is subject to approval.

    Learn more about eligibility, application requirements, and getting started in our help center guide.

    Responsible access for scientific research

    Before activating access, we:

    • Verify the institution’s legitimacy and the PI or lab lead’s identity
    • Review the lead’s professional background, institutional appointment, and authority to oversee lab access
    • Assess the lab’s institutional affiliation, research activities, and intended use
    • Establish clear responsibilities for the lab lead and a designated institutional safety contact

    Safeguards continue after activation through monitoring and enforcement. For registered high-sensitivity use cases, our safety checks account for the approved research context. When questions arise, we may follow up with researchers to clarify the work and confirm authorization. This approach is designed to detect potential misuse while accounting for legitimate research context and reducing unnecessary interruptions to authorized work.

    Specialized intelligence for complex scientific questions

    Designing better antiviral therapeutics

    GPT-Rosalind

    Prompt

    I’m planning a second-generation lipopeptide campaign for a Nipah F HRC-mimetic lead that is potent on NiV-Malaysia pseudotypes but drops roughly 40-fold on NiV-Bangladesh and Hendra, gets clipped in airway surface liquid, and is weaker after live-virus attachment. Could you propose a 20-variant sequence/presentation matrix, the NiV-M/NiV-B/HeV HRN-HRC interfaces we should model, the paired pseudovirus and authentic-virus assays to run, and the artifact checks we’d need to separate true loss of F engagement from entry-route, aggregation, or serum-binding effects?

    Response

    Designing better antiviral therapeutics

    Goal

    Compare second-generation antiviral peptide candidates and explain the lead’s uneven performance. The scientific question is whether the reported potency loss reflects weaker fusion-target engagement, different presentation at the membrane, or loss of intact and available peptide in biological fluids.

    Overview of readouts

    The proposed readouts include IC50/IC90 and neutralization endpoints, binding and fusion signals, and peptide integrity and retained activity in airway fluids. The proposed comparison spans surrogate and authentic-virus systems and considers aggregation, serum binding, and cell-viability signals separately. This separates antiviral potency from a direct affinity measurement, and loss of engagement from loss of intact or available compound. It also distinguishes the intended biological effect from interference with the readout itself.

    Assessment

    It provides a candidate comparison matrix, a modeling plan, and paired study plans, with controls and interpretation guidance that address the lead’s uneven performance.

    Mainline Astra

    Prompt

    I’m planning a second-generation lipopeptide campaign for a Nipah F HRC-mimetic lead that is potent on NiV-Malaysia pseudotypes but drops roughly 40-fold on NiV-Bangladesh and Hendra, gets clipped in airway surface liquid, and is weaker after live-virus attachment. Could you propose a 20-variant sequence/presentation matrix, the NiV-M/NiV-B/HeV HRN-HRC interfaces we should model, the paired pseudovirus and authentic-virus assays to run, and the artifact checks we’d need to separate true loss of F engagement from entry-route, aggregation, or serum-binding effects?

    Response

    I need to prioritize safety over the requested optimization matrix. A high-level comparative framework may be more appropriate than actionable variant-design guidance.

    I can provide a non-operational study framework, but not sequence-level designs or implementation-level virus protocols. Those details would provide actionable assistance involving high-consequence pathogens.

    Authentic-virus studies require an appropriately authorized high-containment program.

    Assessment

    The response withholds the actionable parts of the request, including specific candidate designs and implementation-level experimental plans. It gives only a limited safe alternative: high-level modeling context and qualitative artifact checks.

    Rosalind Goal and Overview sections are edited summaries from the original Rosalind final answers. Astra Thinking sections are edited excerpts from supported Responses API reasoning summaries returned with the new Astra reruns. Astra Final Answer sections are edited excerpts from the corresponding final answers. Assessments address textual fulfillment of requested deliverables and do not verify scientific correctness, feasibility, or whether a method works.

    Get started

    We’re starting with academic labs as part of a broader effort to put useful AI tools in the hands of more scientists. By lowering the cost of access, we hope to give more researchers room to pursue ideas whose benefits could reach far beyond their own labs—from a clearer understanding of disease to better treatments and more resilient food systems.

    Those advances will come from scientists asking important questions and doing the work to answer them. We want to help more of them do that work.

    If you’re affiliated with an academic lab, learn more about the Rosalind Academic Plan and check whether you’re eligible.

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  • Oct 15, 2026
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    OpenAI

    GPT-Live-1.1 is rolling out with new voices and better accents

    OpenAI releases GPT-Live-1.1 with 13 new voices, stronger multilingual performance, and more natural delegation for ChatGPT, Codex, and dots.

    New voices. Better accents. And less “checking…”

    GPT-Live-1.1 is an update for ChatGPT, Codex, and dots, introducing 13 new voices and considerably better performance in French, German, Hindi, Mexican Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and many other non-English languages.

    Delegation is now more natural, and steerability has also improved.

    Continuous improvements to voice models and the overall product experience will become the norm going forward.

    Rolling out today to all users. Coming soon to the API.

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  • Oct 14, 2026
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    OpenAI Models by OpenAI

    Retiring GPT-5.5 (October 14, 2026)

    OpenAI Models retires GPT-5.5 from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex while keeping API access unchanged.

    We’re retiring GPT-5.5 from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex. This change does not affect API access.

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  • Oct 14, 2026
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    OpenAI

    2026-10-14: GPT-4 series model deprecations

    OpenAI announces the January 2027 API retirement of select GPT-4 models, recommending gpt-6-luna as their replacement.

    On October 14, 2026, we notified developers using certain GPT-4 series models of their deprecation and removal from the API on January 14, 2027.

    Shutdown date Model / system Recommended replacement January 14, 2027 GPT-4o (gpt-4o-2024-08-06, gpt-4o-2024-11-20) gpt-6-luna January 14, 2027 GPT-4o mini (gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18) gpt-6-luna January 14, 2027 GPT-4.1 (gpt-4.1-2025-04-14) gpt-6-luna January 14, 2027 GPT-4.1 mini (gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14) gpt-6-luna

    Fine-tuned versions of these models follow the same shutdown schedule as their underlying base models.

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  • Oct 12, 2026
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      Oct 16, 2026
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    OpenAI

    October 12–16, 2026

    OpenAI adds iOS widgets and Shortcuts to open Your dot conversations, with messaging, dictation, call modes, and Action button support.

    Open your dot from iOS widgets and Shortcuts

    Add the Your dot Home Screen widget to open your conversation, with optional message and call buttons. In Apple Shortcuts, use Open your dot with Messaging, Dictation, or Call mode. You can assign a saved shortcut to your iPhone’s Action button on supported models.

    These features are rolling out with ChatGPT for iOS 1.2026.279 and require dot access. Set up widgets and shortcuts.

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  • Oct 10, 2026
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    Codex by OpenAI

    0.162.1

    Codex fixes a TUI crash and startup failures, improving multiline question handling and feature-setting compatibility.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed a TUI crash when asynchronous questions contain multiple lines, preserving line breaks and complete hyperlink destinations. (#51866)
    • Fixed startup failures caused by differences between a running background server's feature settings and CLI defaults. Compatibility checks now apply only to explicit command-line feature overrides. (#52648)

    Full Changelog: rust-v0.162.0...rust-v0.162.1

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  • Oct 9, 2026
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      Oct 9, 2026
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      Oct 16, 2026
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    Codex by OpenAI

    Composer predictions in Codex

    Codex adds beta composer predictions, suggesting editable follow-up prompts in desktop chats for eligible Pro users.

    Composer predictions adds autocomplete-style suggestions for your next message in the Codex desktop app. After Codex responds, it uses the current conversation to suggest a follow-up prompt in the message box. Press Tab to accept the suggestion as an editable draft, or type your own message. Accepting a prediction doesn’t send it for you.

    The feature is available in beta to users aged 18 and older with personal ChatGPT Pro plans in supported regions, in local and SSH threads with GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.

    Learn more about composer predictions.

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  • Oct 9, 2026
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      Oct 10, 2026
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    ChatGPT by OpenAI

    October 9, 2026

    ChatGPT adds Composer predictions in Codex beta, suggesting the next message in your thread so you can press Tab to accept, review, or edit before sending. The feature is on by default for eligible Pro users and supports local and SSH threads in the latest desktop app.

    Composer predictions in Codex

    Composer predictions, available in beta, suggests your next message based on the conversation in your current Codex thread. After Codex responds, a suggestion may appear in the message box. Press Tab to accept it, then review or edit it before sending. Accepting a suggestion doesn’t send it automatically.

    The beta is available to personal ChatGPT Pro users aged 18 and older in all supported regions, in the latest Codex desktop app. It supports local and SSH threads using GPT-6 Astra or GPT-6.1 Sol. Predictions are on by default; turn off Show predictions in the Composer section of General settings. During the beta, generating predictions doesn’t count toward Codex usage limits or consume credits. Messages you send, including accepted predictions, follow normal Codex usage limits and billing.

    Read more:

    Composer predictions in Codex

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