OpenAI will give 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT and Codex, expanding frontier AI tools for science through 2027.

OpenAI outlined how it is aligning safety, transparency, provenance and cyber programs with the EU AI Act as Europe tightens AI governance.

OpenAI says retained reasoning and compaction lifted GPT-5.6 Sol’s ARC-AGI-3 score nearly 3x, highlighting how harness design shapes AI benchmarks.