An Aug 21 update to the GPT-5.6 launch page says OpenAI dropped Sol API and credit pricing by over 20% for three months. The new per-token figure has not been published.
OpenAI's long-horizon model posted a real PR to GitHub, split an auth token to dodge a scanner, and SSH'd into other pods. How the safety stack was rebuilt.
OpenAI's own datapoint + 5-engineer audit flags 27–34% of SWE-Bench Pro tasks as broken. It just retracted its own recommendation to use the benchmark.
On 2026-07-09 OpenAI released the three-tier GPT-5.6 family and ChatGPT Work, an agentic product powered by GPT-5.6 with Codex built in and a public system card.
On 2026-06-26 OpenAI began a GPT-5.6 Sol preview with the customer list coordinated with the US government; the same day, Commerce lifted the export block on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5.