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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.
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.
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
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.
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
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%
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
GPT-Live listens and speaks at once, but the developer API is not live yet. A senior engineer's read on full-duplex voice, Realtime API pricing at $32/$64 per million tokens, and what to build now.
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
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.
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
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
OpenAI's Assistants API sunsets on 26 August 2026, 36 days from now. The replacement objects do not map one to one, prompts are dashboard-only, and OpenAI will not ship a thread migration tool.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 shipped on July 9, 2026 in three tiers, Sol, Terra, and Luna, priced from $1 to $30 per million tokens. How to match each tier to coding, agent, and high-volume workloads by cost.
GPT-5.6 reached general availability on July 9, 2026 as three models: Sol at $5, Terra at $2.50 and Luna at $1 per million input tokens. How to pick the right tier for coding, agents and high-volume work.
