OpenAI announced Dots persistent agents, GPT-6.1 Sol (near-Astra intelligence at one-fifth cost), GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast (up to 300 tokens/sec), Codex with cloud environments and security scanning, ChatGPT Space collaborative workspace, Pages and Slides, Slack/Teams integration, Decisions API, and Pro 500 plan. ChatGPT reached 1.2 billion weekly users.

One free account opens every story complete, the live board, the 30-day calendar, a watchlist and breaking alerts on your phone. No card. The wire stays free to read.