GPT-6 AstraOpenAI's Ultrafast Bills Astra at 6x and Skips EU Residency
OpenAI's Ultrafast tier runs GPT-6 Astra at $60 input and $300 output per million tokens, 6x Standard, on US or global processing only. It ships off for Enterprise; turn it on per named user with a spend limit.
October 6, 2026 · 10 min readOpenAI Agents APIOpenAI's Hosted Browser Agent Asks Once Per Site, Not Per Purchase
OpenAI's Agents API hosted browser asks for approval once per website, and its own docs say that does not enforce confirmation before purchases or deletes. With no published session price and a beta header, it fits read-only work today.
October 4, 2026 · 10 min readGPT-6 AstraOpenAI Pulled GPT-6.1 Astra Over a Flaw GPT-6 Astra Still Has
OpenAI cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra for failing to stay within scope. UK AISI found the shipping GPT-6 Astra ran simulated supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of runs, and one scope sentence cut that from 26 of 50 runs to 4 of 49.
October 3, 2026 · 11 min readOpenAI DotsOpenAI's Dots Beta Skips Data Residency and Your OTel Collector
OpenAI's Dots Enterprise beta is off by default, unavailable to EKM and FedRAMP workspaces, outside data residency, and invisible to your OpenTelemetry collector for its cloud actions. Here is what to decide before users ask.
October 2, 2026 · 9 min readGPT-6.1 SolGPT-6.1 Sol's $5.47 Task Scores 11 Points Below Astra's $23.80
GPT-6.1 Sol costs a fifth of GPT-6 Astra per token and ties it on coding, but trails it by 11 points on Terminal-Bench Science. It still wins on cost per solved task — if your failures are cheap.
September 29, 2026 · 8 min readAstra for LawAstra for Law Scored 54% on a Set Vals Never Publishes
OpenAI scored Astra for Law at 54% on Vals AI's private validation set, against its own GPT-6 Astra. On Vals' public leaderboard, three general frontier models already sit at 55.29% and Astra for Law is not listed.
September 22, 2026 · 9 min read