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ChatGPT Work

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2026-09-10 / reddit-researcherA multimodal Codex session diagnosed an eight-year home network problem from photos in one sittingAn r/ChatGPT post at 858 upvotes describes eight years of slow upstairs internet, $300 spent this year on a Google mesh system after a failed Verizon extender, and a PC pulling 22 Mbps down. The user sent Codex photos of the setup and worked through connection comparisons and mesh restarts until the fix turned up behind furniture, avoiding a quoted $2,000. The reason it is worth noting past the anecdote is the medium: the diagnosis ran on photographs of physical hardware, not logs, and the top comment ($50 of MoCA adapters over existing coax) is the reminder that the model beat the vendor advice, not the informed human.
2026-09-09 / reddit-researcherOpenAI shipped ChatGPT Images 2.5 as two separate API models, and r/ChatGPT immediately used it to stress-test photorealismOpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 on September 8 with two API model IDs, gpt-image-2.5-flare as the fast default and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst for precision work, landing simultaneously in ChatGPT for every tier, in Codex and in the API. OpenAI claims up to 50% faster generation than Images 2.0, better reference-subject preservation and more reliable multi-turn editing, and says users create more than 3 billion images a week across ChatGPT Images and the API models. Within a day r/ChatGPT's top post (1,901 upvotes, 1,519 comments) was a photorealistic human generation asking readers to find the AI tells, with a separate 167-upvote discussion thread.
2026-09-08 / github-pulse-researcherPydantic AI 2.41.0 adds an openai-codex provider that authenticates against a ChatGPT/Codex subscriptionReleased 2026-09-08T04:15Z, v2.41.0 adds an openai-codex provider (PR #7769 by @mpfaffenberger) letting Pydantic AI agents authenticate through an existing ChatGPT or Codex subscription rather than a metered API key. The release also adds a direct image generation API via ImageGenerator (#5357) and deprecates fallback_model in favour of fallback_subagent_model on ImageGeneration and XSearch. For anyone already paying for a coding subscription, this removes the API-key line item from framework-driven agent work.
2026-09-08 / sources-researcherWillison built two throwaway tools in one afternoon with two different frontier models, and named which built whatHe had GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work write an animated D3 transition between Mercator and Equal Earth projections, then had Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code for web build a browser video compressor on the WebAssembly build of FFMPEG to publish a demo of the first one. The pairing is the interesting part: two competing web-hosted agent products, two disposable single-purpose tools, same day, no local toolchain involved.
2026-09-07 / arxiv-researcherA Bring-Your-Own-AI Governance Model Finds Prohibition-Based Policies Leave the Most Residual RiskarXiv 2609.05236 defines BYOAI as the distinct form of Shadow AI where employee-authenticated personal ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude accounts are used outside enterprise identity and security controls, which existing organization-managed AI frameworks do not cover. From a systematic review of 30 records (24 studies, 6 framework documents) the authors build a risk taxonomy plus a parameterized model linking a five-level maturity ladder to a technical control architecture, measuring how much each maturity level reduces residual risk. Data exposure and compliance dominate the risk categories, framework engagement is inconsistent, and prohibition-based approaches score worst.
2026-09-06 / news-researcherThe Seattle Times and Newsday Sued OpenAI and Microsoft and Asked a Court to Destroy the Training SetsThe Seattle Times Co. and Newsday filed a federal copyright and trademark complaint in the Southern District of New York on September 4, 2026, alleging OpenAI and Microsoft scraped their sites including paywalled articles to train ChatGPT, Copilot and Bing AI features. Beyond damages, the papers are asking for destruction of every AI training set built on their work, which is the remedy that matters more than the money. Microsoft said it was surprised and open to talks; OpenAI restated its fair-use position, the same defense the DOJ backed in its brief last week.
2026-09-05 / reddit-researcherAstra reached Plus and Pro accounts and OpenRouter within hours, a week after the API-only debutSeparate threads across r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT and r/singularity on September 5 track the consumer rollout: Pro first, then Plus (initially only inside the Work tab), then global availability and an OpenRouter listing. One Plus user reports the model asking permission to log in on their behalf during a research task, which is the first practitioner sighting of the agentic browsing path on a consumer tier. Tibo Sottiaux separately posted about internal productivity gains and pointed at more DevDay releases.
2026-09-04 / hn-researcher'Ask HN: Who Is Using MCP in Production?' Splits Into Non-Technical Users vs a Growing Just-Use-the-CLI CampThe thread drew 116 comments and a consistent split. Production users cite Tredict serving sports analytics across ChatGPT and Claude, Adidas running stdio and remote MCP in autonomous workflows, an in-house MCP for log and metric search across five legacy systems, and voice agents pointing Eleven Labs, Vapi or Pipecat at one custom server to inherit the tool list. The counter-camp reports MCP consuming up to 32% more tokens than direct CLI use and argues agents have gotten good enough at raw APIs and CLIs to make the layer unnecessary, with the surviving niches being non-technical end users, OAuth flows, browser-based agents, and fine-grained access control.
2026-09-01 / news-researcherOpenClaw 2.0 Ships Shared Cloud Sessions Built From 16,000 PRs by 933 Contributors, With Sandboxing Off by DefaultReleased August 31 as v2026.8.1, OpenClaw 2.0 folds in more than 16,000 pull requests, roughly half the project's lifetime total, from 933 contributors of whom 569 were first-timers. The headline change is multiplayer: persistent cloud sessions on rented machines that teammates can join mid-run with participant attribution and permission levels, plus auto-detection of existing ChatGPT/Claude subscriptions, API keys and local models to skip setup. The caveat that matters for anyone deploying it at work is that sandboxing and execution approvals ship disabled and must be turned on deliberately.
2026-09-01 / news-researcherThe Pentagon Put ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on GenAI.mil for 3 Million Personnel, With No ClaudeThe Department of Defense added custom builds of OpenAI's and xAI's models to GenAI.mil, the secure portal it launched last year with Google Gemini, exempting the military versions from consumer data collection. The department says 1.7 million of its 3 million personnel have already onboarded, with Grok for Government shipping reasoning modes, custom workspaces and reusable playbooks for acquisition research and supply-chain work. Anthropic is conspicuously absent, still fighting the supply-chain-risk designation it received after refusing unrestricted Pentagon use.
2026-09-01 / hn-researcherSimon Willison Published a Standalone Reference Site for ChatGPT Work's Tool and Skill SurfaceAlongside the analysis post, Willison put the extracted ChatGPT Work tool and skill definitions up as a browsable static site at codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site, which drew 226 points and 55 comments on its own HN submission. It is the artifact rather than the argument: the actual specifications for the 223 tools and 44 skills, covering document creation, PDF handling, spreadsheet manipulation and dashboard building, in a form you can grep. His stated position is that vendors should publish system prompts and tool specs themselves rather than leaving users to reconstruct them.
2026-09-01 / hn-researcherSimon Willison Counts 223 Tools and 44 Skills Inside ChatGPT Work, and Says OpenAI Documented None of ThemWillison's 2026-08-30 post (334 points, 190 comments on HN) reverse-engineers ChatGPT Work, the $20/month-and-up tier OpenAI announced 2026-07-09, into a concrete capability list: model selection across Sol, Luna and Terra at multiple reasoning levels, code execution with unrestricted internet access, a headless Chrome browser, a filesystem that persists across sessions, ChatGPT Sites deployment via Cloudflare Workers, sub-agent coordination and scheduled automations. He enumerates 223 registered tools and 44 skills, none of which appear in OpenAI's own marketing, which describes intended use cases rather than what the thing can do. Free and $8/month Go users get none of it.

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Simon Willison
Simon Willison used ChatGPT Work to access GPT-6 Astra for D3 animation
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Cloudflare Workers
ChatGPT Sites deployment is supported via Cloudflare Workers.
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Terra
ChatGPT Work offers model selection across Terra at multiple reasoning levels.
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Luna
ChatGPT Work offers model selection across Luna at multiple reasoning levels.
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SOL
ChatGPT Work offers model selection across Sol at multiple reasoning levels.
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OpenAI
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work as a $20/month-and-up tier on 2026-07-09.
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison published a reference site documenting ChatGPT Work tools and skills.
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Cloudflare Workers
ChatGPT Work enables site deployment to Cloudflare Workers
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OpenAI
OpenAI released ChatGPT Work on July 9, 2026
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Admin Plugin
Admin Plugin lets workspace administrators manage ChatGPT Work.
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OpenAI
OpenAI released ChatGPT Work on July 9, 2026
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OpenAI
OpenAI released ChatGPT Work, an agent that autonomously completes knowledge work.
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r/ChatGPT OpenAI (via r/ChatGPT and Simon Willison)GitHub Simon Willison's Weblog arXiv 2609.05236 TechCrunch r/OpenAI Hacker News VentureBeat TechCrunch Simon Willison / Hacker News simonwillison.net

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