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Transparent backgrounds reached preview on gpt-image-2 on 20 August 2026. Image output bills at $30.00 per 1M tokens, yet the only published token table covers the older models.
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OpenAI split Daybreak into Blue and Red tiers on 7 August 2026. Red bills 3.1x Blue's input rate, carries a long-context surcharge that can never fire, and is in no regional processing list.
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OpenAI announced Ultrafast mode on 13 August 2026 as an API service tier up to 14x faster than Standard. Eleven days later the pricing page still publishes four tiers and no Ultrafast row.
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OpenAI dropped GPT-5.6 Sol list pricing 20% on input and 33% on output on 21 August 2026. Vercel rebased its 50% discount to $2/$10 the same day. Cloudflare's 19 August page still shows $2.50/$15.
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OpenAI now lets one API key target us., eu. or in.api.openai.com per request. Only the US, EU and UAE support regional inference. India, the UK and Japan are storage-only.
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OpenAI's Assistants API is removed on 26 August 2026. The migration guide claims no lost feature support, then says there will be no automated tool for moving threads to conversations.
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OpenAI released a Prompt Caching dashboard on 20 August 2026 that reports cache reads per write. On GPT-5.6 that ratio decides whether caching cuts your input bill by 78 percent or raises it by 25 percent, and Azure
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openai 3.0.0 landed on PyPI at 01:55 UTC on 12 August 2026. It replaced HTTPX with HTTPX2, stopped installing certifi, and moved certificate verification to the operating-system trust store.
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Three OpenAI developer surfaces die on 30 November 2026 after a single 40-word changelog entry. The export path for evals closes a month earlier, on 31 October, and OpenAI's own docs still disagree about where Agent
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OpenAI's 19 August 2026 Zero Data Retention post promises prompts are not retained. Its own API docs list 14 of 25 endpoints as ZDR-ineligible, keep CSAM-flagged images regardless, and price non-US residency at a 10%
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OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and Terra by 20% on 30 July 2026, and Amazon Bedrock passed both through automatically. Luna now costs $0.20 per million input tokens on both paths, which removes the pricing argument
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OpenAI removes the Assistants API on 26 August 2026. Threads become Conversations, Runs become Responses, and the tool-call loop becomes your code. Here is the mapping, the hidden cost changes, and a three-week plan.
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OpenAI's deprecations page lists six Sora 2 entries with a 24 September 2026 shutdown and an empty replacement column. Veo 3.1 Lite runs $0.05 per second, Runway Gen-4.5 $0.12, Sora 2 Pro at 1080p was $0.70. Here is
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OpenAI published ten new mathematical results on 1 August 2026, produced by an internal Astra model for roughly $2,000 in tokens. The transferable lesson is not the model: every result shipped with a machine-checkable
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OpenAI's July 30, 2026 update drops GPT-5.6 Luna to $0.20/$1.20 and Terra to $2/$12 per million tokens and folds Priority Processing into a new Fast mode. What changes for your LLM spend, and how to migrate.
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OpenAI's Codex Security CLI is Apache-2.0 open source, but it calls a gated, metered engine. How to install it, wire it into CI with exit codes and SARIF, and where it fits next to Semgrep, CodeQL and Snyk.
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Google Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, Anthropic's Claude computer-use tool and OpenAI computer-use-preview all drive real browser UIs in 2026. Compare price, OSWorld benchmarks, safety and environment support before you build.
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The price war we flagged in June arrived. On 30 July 2026 OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and Terra by 20%, and gave Sol a faster mode. Here are the new numbers, the competitive backdrop with Anthropic, and how the cut
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OpenAI launched GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe on 28 July 2026. One handles recorded files at $0.0045/min, the other streams live audio at $0.017/min. Here is how they compare on price, accuracy and latency
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GPT-Live listens and speaks at once, and since 10 September 2026 it has had a developer API. A senior engineer's read on full-duplex voice, Realtime API pricing at $32/$64 per million tokens, and what to build now.
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Agent Builder and the Evals platform leave OpenAI on November 30, 2026, and the Assistants API sunsets August 26. How to choose among the Responses API, Chat Completions, the Agents SDK and AgentKit for new agents
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OpenAI's Secure MCP Tunnel lets ChatGPT, Codex and the Responses API reach a private or on-prem MCP server over an outbound-only HTTPS path, with no inbound ports. How it works, how to set it up, and how to harden it.
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OpenAI's 22 April 2026 deprecation email listed 18 model snapshots shutting down on 23 July 2026. The public deprecations page lists 15 of them. Here is the full map, what each one migrates to, the four shutdown dates
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OpenAI Presence is a limited-availability, Forward Deployed Engineer-led product with no list price. The Realtime API is self-serve with published rates. Three numbers, and one eligibility question, decide which path
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