DeepSeek pushes V4-Flash-0731 to public beta with Responses API, Codex adaptation, 82.7 on Terminal Bench 2.1 and 54.4 on DeepSWE. The vendor lock runtime decreases by one level.
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The rate limit holiday ends. OpenAI turns the 5-hour caps back on 29 July after patching a GPT-5.6 Sol overconsumption bug that had been running since 12 July - with a claimed 18% net capacity uplift.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 11 11
ads.openai.com is live. After the ChatGPT = Codex pivot and the 10M Codex/ChatGPT Work users, OpenAI is now branching into ad monetization. The super-app transition is almost complete.
Jul 22, 2026 at 12:42 17 10
Stratechery describes a major product pivot at OpenAI: the new ChatGPT is no longer an evolution of the chat, it's Codex. A super app that is agent-first, even if it means liquidating the category that OpenAI itself invented.
Jul 14, 2026 at 15:44 15 7
The OpenAI Codex coding tool has started to encrypt prompts and use the ciphertext directly for inference. The change raises questions about the reproducibility, observability, and privacy of developers' inputs.
Jul 14, 2026 at 15:44 6 8
OpenAI ships GPT-5.6, folds Codex into ChatGPT Work for apps and files, and cuts the top-tier price in half. Anthropic responds the same day by wiping Claude's usage limits. The frontier war is now billed by the meter.
Jul 11, 2026 at 11:41 32 9
