OpenAI Fixes GPT-6 Image Understanding Bug
After OpenAI fixed an image-encoding bug in GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Luna's visual grounding score rose from 28.8% to 60.0%. OpenAI advised developers who use image inputs to rerun their evaluations.
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After OpenAI fixed an image-encoding bug in GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Luna's visual grounding score rose from 28.8% to 60.0%. OpenAI advised developers who use image inputs to rerun their evaluations.
Codex web, the API, the CLI and the VS Code extension all went down at once in a full outage. OpenAI restored usage limits for every paid user 13 minutes after recovery, but the cause has not been disclosed.
OpenAI's developer account posted a 90-second video on September 22 showing Brian Pridgen, a hand and microsurgeon, using Codex. A doctor who is not a programmer built his own MCP server that pulls papers from PubMed.
Since September 18, most plugins in ChatGPT accept more than one connected account. Developers have nothing to change, but labeling those accounts correctly means adding a profile tool and a stable identifier.
OpenAI's developer account posted a compilation video of 3D creations made with GPT-6 Astra. The ten entries submitted over 24 hours include an assembly scene built from 33,302 parts and a golf course designed on real terrain data.
OpenAI has opened Appshots in the ChatGPT desktop app to Windows. Press both Alt keys and the app window you are looking at is attached to the chat as an image plus its text, including text you would have to scroll to see.
The official ChatGPT account said on September 15 that GPT-5.5 will be pulled from every ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex plan on October 14. OpenAI's developer account quickly drew a line, saying the model stays available through the API and Codex sessions authenticated with an API key.
The OpenAI Developers account posted a one-minute video of Cognition co-founder Walden Yan on September 15. Inside Devin, GPT-6 Astra backs up the claim that code works with tests, cutting the amount of code people have to read themselves.
OpenAI's developer account posted a 68-second video of Perplexity co-founder Johnny Ho on September 14. He has GPT-6 Astra in Codex build test harnesses and mock third-party API responses so he can check that a system runs from start to finish.
OpenAI has taken GPT-Rosalind, its life sciences model, out of research preview and opened it through the API and Codex. In a public demo, narrated as running with biosafety restrictions lifted, the model drew up a plan a lab could pin to the bench as it stands.
The Agents API hands OpenAI the runtime that drives Codex, and it is now in public beta. Sessions and context management become OpenAI's job while your application only picks tools and an execution environment, though the data still sits in the United States alone.
Nearly 47,000 people from 186 countries submitted more than 8,000 projects, and on August 25 OpenAI announced eight category winners. Two of the four first-place teams were a veterinarian and a cardiologist with no coding background.