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OpenAI Posts Video of a Surgeon Using Codex

No.30 · Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · Today in AI

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1. 01OpenAI Posts Video of a Surgeon Using CodexOpenAI'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.
2. 02OpenAI Unveils GPT-6 Sol and LunaOpenAI opened two models trained with methods similar to GPT-6 Astra. API prices came down by half against GPT-5.6 promotional pricing, and on a business automation benchmark the cost per task ran more than ten times below Claude Opus 5.
3. 03OpenAI Publishes Higgsfield's Astra Adoption Case StudyOpenAI posted Higgsfield's GPT-6 Astra adoption case study on its startup stories page on September 21. CEO Alex Mashrabov said a single engineer can now ship a new discovery feature in a day.
4. 04OpenAI Expands Job-Specific AI Learning TracksOpenAI opened new courses for developers, leaders, educators, and college students on OpenAI Academy on September 21. Learners who pass the assessments earn course badges, and the company says it treats learning as part of deployment.
5. 05OpenAI Publishes Proposal for International Frontier AI StandardsOpenAI said on September 21 that the United States should work with countries around the world to build international technical standards for frontier AI. The idea is to use the network of AI safety institutes already established in ten countries including Australia, Canada and Japan.
6. 06Higgsfield Publishes Its Claude Ad Production WorkflowHiggsfield has published a workflow that runs advertising from planning to publication inside one Claude conversation using two connectors. TikTok posts go out from the session itself, while Meta campaigns are only ever built in a paused state.
7. 07Higgsfield Publishes Its Catalog Video Automation ProcessHiggsfield has published a process that turns ecommerce catalog data into a product video per SKU. Product data is substituted into a template, and the API runs a separate generation job per product and returns a request ID.
8. 08Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic has released Opus 5.5, the first model in its new Claude 5.5 line. It matches Claude Fable 5.1's performance on most tasks while running 40% cheaper than Opus 5, and cybersecurity-related requests are automatically routed to Opus 4.8 instead.
9. 09Runway Launches Hiring Platform DIFFUSERunway has opened a hiring platform connecting creatives who work with AI to the brands looking for them. It cites its own study finding that 17 percent of 1,000 creative job postings named AI skills.
10. 10Microsoft Open-Sources Retrosynthesis AI ModelMicrosoft has released RetroChimera, a model that plans synthesis routes backward, alongside a Nature paper. Learned voting between two models with different inclinations won accepted routes on nine of ten difficult targets.