OpenAI shipped Astra for Law (Sept 17): GPT-6 Astra plus a U.S. legal search index (230M+ URLs, with Free Law Project case law) and legal-writing instructions, initially for selected firms via Trusted Access in ChatGPT and Codex, with API access coming for builders like Harvey and Legora. On Vals AI’s Legal Research Bench it scored 54.0% overall correctness vs 38.7% for Astra with web search alone.
Anthropic's Addy Osmani says two sentences were added to Claude Code's Opus 5.5 prompt telling it not to build "a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is renamed or called original," while original games, genre games and games from your own designs and assets should keep working. Users report there's no way to turn the rule off, and XDA found it can also be pushed to other models through a remote config flag (XDA)…
Greg Kurtzer says one persistent Codex task on GPT 5.6 Sol wrote about 139,000 retained lines across 1,037 commits while he set the architecture, milestones and acceptance checks, producing an independent x86 64 kernel (not a Linux fork) that boots Rocky Linux 10 with systemd. It's an Apache 2.0 research prototype that runs only in QEMU, with partial compatibility and no independent audit (repo, report)…
Shown on HN Oct 28 under Apache 2.0, the single Go binary runs a local ergo IRC server where long running sessions (say a planner and a builder) tell each other when work lands and ask you when they need a call, while you read every line in any IRC client and only your registered nick carries authority. A breaker stops waking the sessions after a burst of posts or a long stretch without you, and it's only been used live on macOS; Claude Code launches need dangerously load development channels server:parley because its channel isn't on Anthropic's allowlist…
Released Nov 2 with about 48B active parameters and a 1M token context, it's trained on long agent runs and real agent failures, and Meituan reports 88.4 on Terminal Bench v2.1 and 38.5 on v4.0 (its own numbers). It's API and online chat only for now at a limited time $0.30/$1.20 per million tokens (pricing), with GitHub and Hugging Face weights promised later…
OpenAI's updated help article says Codex, Work and other agentic ChatGPT use will draw from one combined allowance measured in tokens, so heavier models and longer tasks burn more of it, while Instant chat stays free of the meter. There's no exact December date or per plan amount yet; combined remaining usage and reset times will show in Settings Usage, with credits on sale when you run out…
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