Hi guys! Big day yesterday, with OpenAI launching all kinds of things at DevDay. I’ve grouped the full list below so you can see what’s new. These are announcements, with a mixture of releases, previews and things still coming. Access depends on your plan, location and workspace settings. 1. Assistants, models and privacy • Dots: an always-on personal assistant with a cloud computer. Rolling out to eligible Pro and Business Premium users; the Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare beta needs an admin to enable it. • GPT-6.1 Sol: stronger coding, computer use and professional work in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API. Not ordinary Chat yet. Standard API token prices are one-fifth of Astra's, which is separate from subscription pricing. • Ultrafast: up to eight times faster Astra token generation in Codex, using more allowance. Pro 500 and eligible Enterprise access; Sol's version is coming soon. • Private Intelligence: stronger enterprise data protections, with Private Inference previewing this autumn. 2. Building and maintaining software • Codex in the cloud: tasks continue while your laptop sleeps, using reusable development environments. • Refreshed Codex CLI: voice, clearer multi-agent management and improved session workflows in the terminal. • Code Review: a unified review experience plus automatic cloud reviews. GitLab support is in preview. • Codex Security Cloud: repository scans, ongoing commit checks and proposed vulnerability fixes for review. • Decisions API: Luna handles bounded classification and routing decisions. Limited preview. • Agents API with computer use: developers can build agents that operate software through a hosted browser. • AWS Bedrock Managed Agents: OpenAI agent capabilities running within AWS. Preview. 3. Plugins and connected workflows • Plugin extensions: interactive panels, sidebar tools and file viewers inside ChatGPT. • Improved plugin creation, submission and discovery: easier building, clearer submission feedback and better discovery. • Sites can host plugins: shared apps use each person's connected data and permissions.

ChatGPT has had two useful changes this week, especially if you want it to do more than answer questions. OpenAI has added GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to ChatGPT Work and Codex. Sol is intended for more demanding professional work, while Luna brings lower-cost access for work you can supervise and check. Astra remains the model for the most important jobs. At the same time, Voice in Work now works on web and mobile for eligible accounts. That means you can talk through a task while you are away from your desk, then have ChatGPT create a document, presentation or spreadsheet, use a connected app or work in a browser. If you stop the voice conversation before the task is done, it can keep going in text. The sensible first test is not "run my business from my phone." Try one contained job. After a client call, say: "Turn these notes into a follow-up email, a list of agreed actions and a one-page brief. Mark anything you are not certain about. Do not send anything." You still review any action that needs approval on screen, but voice makes it easier to get the job moving before you forget the details. Which job would you rather explain out loud than type from scratch? Sources: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/ and https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes

Ever asked ChatGPT to change one thing in an image, only for something else to mysteriously change too? The background looks lovely, but your product now appears to have a new logo. Cheers for that. 😂 OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, with improvements aimed at making image creation and editing more useful for everyday work. Here's what stands out: • More precise edits, with better preservation of the details you want to keep. • Better consistency across several rounds of changes. • Sharper detail, more natural lighting and improved layouts. • Faster generation, with OpenAI reporting up to 50% lower latency compared with Images 2.0. There are also three handy additions: Sketch lets you draw a rough idea directly in ChatGPT, templates help you start with a format such as a poster, and prompt sharing lets other people adapt your creations. For business owners, I'd start with a small, real job: a promotional graphic, a product image or a thumbnail. Try uploading a product photo and asking: “Create a square social media graphic using this product photo. Keep the product, packaging and logo unchanged. Use a clean cream background, leave space at the top for a headline, and add the exact words: ‘Meet your new favourite’.” Then ask for one change: “Change only the background to pale blue. Keep everything else the same.” Check the logo, wording and product details yourself. That's a much better test than whether the first image looks impressive! OpenAI says Images 2.5 is rolling out across all ChatGPT tiers on web, mobile and desktop. Full announcement: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-5/ What would you try first: product photos, thumbnails, social posts or something completely different?

A daily AI news brief can be useful, but only if it saves you from another inbox-shaped rabbit hole. Pick one topic your customers or audience actually care about. Then ask ChatGPT to find the latest credible news, articles and videos from the last 24 hours. Have it return the headline, date, source, direct link, a short summary, why it matters to your audience, and three possible content angles. Try this prompt: "Search the web for the most important new developments about [TOPIC] from the last 24 hours. Prioritise primary sources and credible reporting. Give me a table with the headline, publication date, source, direct link, two-sentence summary, why it matters to [AUDIENCE], and three useful video or post angles. Flag anything uncertain or based on secondary reporting. If nothing material has changed, say so. Do not invent sources." If you use ChatGPT's recurring task features, you could run that prompt as a daily brief. Otherwise, keep it as a quick morning routine in a normal chat. The important part is what happens next. Open the links, decide whether there is a real angle, then make one useful piece of content. You do not need to cover every update. You need to notice the few that are worth your audience's time. What topic would you most like a daily brief to keep an eye on?

Alright, we've got a new ChatGPT model to play with. It's called GPT-6 Astra. I know, another model name to remember! But this one does look like a pretty big step forward. The interesting bit isn't all the benchmark scores. It's that Astra is meant to be much better at actually getting on with a job, rather than just telling you how to do it. OpenAI says it can handle multi-step tasks across browsers and everyday business tools. That includes online research, filling in forms, updating records, organising a calendar, and creating documents, spreadsheets, presentations and websites. What it can do will depend on which ChatGPT tools you have access to, of course. It should also be better at knowing when to make a sensible assumption and when it genuinely needs to ask you something. Hopefully that means less babysitting, without it charging off like an unsupervised intern with admin access. One important thing to know is that ordinary ChatGPT customers can't use it just yet. Right now, access is limited to approved organisations that apply for it. OpenAI says Astra should start rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users over the next few days. So don't waste half an hour hunting through your settings or repeatedly refreshing the model picker. It isn't hiding from you. We just need to wait for the wider rollout. When it arrives, let's give it something more interesting than a trivia question. Give it a real job, the information it needs, and a clear idea of what "done" looks like. Then come back and tell us how it got on. What are you going to try first? Official announcement: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/