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SoftBank Turns to Global Bond Market Ahead of $10B OpenAI Investment
SoftBank Group is tapping global bond markets for $10 billion and €1 billion just days before another $10 billion investment in OpenAI is scheduled to close. The Japanese investment group has launched dollar- and euro-denominated senior unsecured notes across five maturities, according to a term sheet. The dollar offering is divided into 3.5-year, 5.5-year and […]
OpenAI Says AI Agents Now Do 3.1x More Research Work Than Humans
At the start of 2026, coding agents were still operating in the background of OpenAI’s research organization, helping researchers write code, troubleshoot experiments and move technical work forward. Within months, that balance shifted dramatically. Before June, total agent runtime was still below human labor. By mid-August, OpenAI says researchers were consuming 3.1 agent-workdays for every […]
OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API Pricing as Frontier AI Enters a Cost Race
OpenAI is making its most capable GPT-5.6 model cheaper at a moment when developers are starting to judge frontier AI on more than intelligence alone. GPT-5.6 Sol will temporarily cost $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, reducing the price of running complex reasoning, coding and agentic workloads through OpenAI’s flagship […]
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Cyber Turns Access Into a Security Feature
Cybersecurity is starting to challenge that assumption. As advanced models become better at finding vulnerabilities and assisting with complex security research, the question is increasingly about capability and control: who should be allowed to use the most powerful cyber models, under what conditions, and with what safeguards? OpenAI is addressing that problem with GPT-5.6-Cyber, a […]
OpenAI Pauses Some Astra Work Over Critical Cyber Risk
OpenAI has run into a rare problem with its next-generation model: Astra may be advancing faster than the security controls built around it. Internal evaluations showed significant gains in agentic coding and cybersecurity, pushing OpenAI to pause some work involving the unreleased model while stronger safeguards are put in place. The key concern is unusually […]
OpenAI Acquires NextSlide to Bring AI Presentation Creation Into ChatGPT
AI can already help write a presentation. The harder part is turning research, notes, and ideas into something structured, visual, and ready to present. OpenAI has acquired the AI presentation startup, with the NextSlide team now working on ChatGPT. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founder Ahmed Beshry said the acquisition took place earlier in 2026, […]
OpenAI Astra solves10 Advances in Longstanding Math Problems
AI models have performed well on mathematics benchmarks before. OpenAI’s latest claim goes further, placing an unreleased model inside active research problems where the answers were not already known. OpenAI says an internal version of Astra produced 10 advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The company carefully describes the results as either resolving a […]