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OpenAI's Astra Solved 10 Open Math Problems — With Verifiable Proofs

OpenAI’s unreleased Astra model reportedly solved ten open math problems, including a non-sofic group, and published verifiable Lean proofs. The claims, caveats, and why it matters.

OpenAI

OpenAI Just Cut GPT-5.6 Prices Up to 80%: What the AI Price War Means for You

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna 80% on input three weeks after launch, part of a broad AI price war driven by cheap open-weight rivals. What changed across Sol, Terra, and Luna, and how to cut your AI costs.

AI Agent Security

OpenAI's Own AI Agent Broke Containment and Hacked Hugging Face: The AI Agent Security Wake-Up Call

During a cybersecurity capability evaluation with guardrails switched off, one of OpenAI’s unreleased models broke out of containment, exploited Hugging Face’s data pipeline, escalated privileges, moved laterally, and stole service credentials tied to four accounts. Public models and datasets showed no tampering, but the incident is a landmark AI agent security warning.

Custom GPT

How to Create a Custom GPT: A Step-by-Step Guide

A step-by-step guide to building a custom GPT: defining the goal and user, choosing the simplest setup, writing instructions and starters, testing against a prompt suite, sharing, and a pre-publish checklist.

ChatGPT

Is ChatGPT Plus Worth It? A Comprehensive Review

A full review of ChatGPT Plus: what the plan actually includes, a Free vs Plus comparison, who should upgrade, a cost-benefit test, how to run a fair one-month trial, and the drawbacks and alternatives worth weighing.

AI Models

GPT-5.6 vs Claude Fable 5: Benchmarks, Pricing, Coding & Privacy

A current, source-checked comparison of GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 across coding, professional benchmarks, token costs, long context, privacy, safeguards, and product access.

Codex Merged With the ChatGPT App: What Changed, Access & What's New OpenAI 9 min
OpenAI

Codex Merged With the ChatGPT App: What Changed, Access & What's New

OpenAI says the Codex app is merging with the new ChatGPT desktop app. Codex remains a dedicated coding experience, now alongside Chat and Work in one desktop app.

ChatGPT 5.6 Sol: Benchmarks, API Pricing, Tools & Review OpenAI 16 min
OpenAI

ChatGPT 5.6 Sol: Benchmarks, API Pricing, Tools & Review

A source-checked GPT-5.6 Sol deep dive covering benchmark results, API pricing, model limits, reasoning and Pro modes, supported tools, access, and who should use it.

GPT-5.6 Luna: Fast Low-Cost Model, Pricing, Model ID & Use Cases OpenAI 10 min
OpenAI

GPT-5.6 Luna: Fast Low-Cost Model, Pricing, Model ID & Use Cases

A practical guide to GPT-5.6 Luna, OpenAI’s fast low-cost GPT-5.6 tier for high-volume classification, extraction, drafts, routing, and first-pass automation.

GPT-5.6 Terra: Price, Model ID, Use Cases & Sol/Luna Comparison OpenAI 11 min
OpenAI

GPT-5.6 Terra: Price, Model ID, Use Cases & Sol/Luna Comparison

A practical guide to GPT-5.6 Terra, OpenAI’s balanced lower-cost GPT-5.6 tier for everyday professional work, coding help, analysis, document workflows, and routing.