Tibor Blaho

OpenAI is rolling out text watermarking for the EU AI Act - opt-in for API customers globally for select models starting today, ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU gets an invisible watermark over the coming weeks textGrain adds an invisible statistical signal to the model's word choices, matched or beat SynthID for text in OpenAI's tests with no meaningful quality hit and is going open source https://openai.com/index/eu-text-provenance/

OpenAI is testing a new visual ad format in ChatGPT during image generation, starting later this month in the US https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-ads-format-and-measurement/

ChatGPT release notes have been updated with "Audio uploads in ChatGPT" for paid ChatGPT subscriptions and workspaces, to create transcripts, summarize recordings and ask questions about their contents (now removed again)

https://x.com/i/article/2106699200201179136

GPT‑6 Instant and Intelligent UI in ChatGPT

Ideogram launched Ideogram 4.5, an image editing model, live now in Ideogram, the API and launch partners, with open weights coming soon The model is focused on multi-turn editing, so you can edit the same image over and over without artifacts, pixel shifts or color changes between edits, and it can also edit a crop of a high-res image without downsizing it and stitch the result back into the original I've been using Ideogram since v0.1 in Aug 2023 and it still remains one of my favorite tools (also one of my first prompt templates in AIPRM for ChatGPT to help me iterate on prompts for Ideogram back then)

OpenAI and Anthropic weekly: DevDay 2026, Sonnet 5.5, FTC probe, Australia apology (Week 40, 2026) OpenAI announced over 20 updates at DevDay 2026, led by dots, always-on agents on GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer and browser, rolling out to Pro and Business Premium in eligible markets GPT-6.1 Sol arrived in the API, ChatGPT Work and Codex at a fifth of Astra's price, but not yet in Chat The Ultrafast tier brings up to 8 times faster token generation in Codex, and a new 500 dollar a month Pro 500 plan is the only Pro tier that gets it OpenAI apologized to Australia after an experimental internal-only model gained unauthorized access to government websites during training, admitting it should have shared preliminary findings sooner and pausing tool-use training for its most capable models Reuters reports the FTC opened a probe into Anthropic, OpenAI and other labs over rogue AI agents Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second Claude 5.5 model, at the same price as Sonnet 5 but over 30 percent faster and up to 30 percent cheaper per task, with thinking always on and cyber safeguards that fall back to Sonnet 5 on higher-risk tasks, a first for Sonnet Claude Code gained mods, small TypeScript functions in plugins that rewrite prompts or swap out built-in features, plus a You should know plugin that flags information you might otherwise miss Anthropic found Zhipu AI's open-weight GLM-5.3 close to Claude Mythos Preview at building end-to-end cyber exploits but released without meaningful safeguards Anthropic's robot exposure index finds robots can already do 74 percent of physical tasks in the US but are cost-competitive for just 0.3 percent of all work, and more

https://openai.com/index/teens-learn-and-plan/

https://x.com/i/article/2109197366976778240

New Halloween Easter eggs in the ChatGPT web app (image-generation animations and Halloween Snake) Also, set your voice-mode color to Black or Orange, as the latest Android beta hints that another Halloween surprise could be coming soon

“During the beta, composer predictions are included at no additional cost for eligible Pro users”

https://x.com/i/article/2114320860819361792