AI image models: Nano Banana vs GPT Image
Google's Nano Banana 2.1 against OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5: sizes, references, per-image prices, leaderboard ranks, licences and what users say.
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UK sets up an AI Biosecurity Lab with £100M of public money and up to £200M from OpenAI and Anthropic
The Cabinet Office's new non-profit lab will use frontier AI to spot biological threats earlier and speed up vaccines. Many details are still to come.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedOpenAI now trains frontier models offline, after its own agents red-teamed the sandbox
OpenAI says frontier RL runs now use a cached offline web, after agent red-teams found microVM escapes, internet paths and covert channels.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedMETR and Redwood spent three weeks inside OpenAI testing how it watches its own agents, and found ways around it
METR and Redwood estimate 75 to 94% of strong-model agent traffic was eligible for monitoring in July, and list bypasses OpenAI says it has patched.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedDid you know: resetting your ChatGPT PIN permanently deletes every locked chat
ChatGPT's new locked chats sit behind a 4-digit account PIN. Forget it and reset, and every locked chat and its protected files are deleted for good.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedSign in with ChatGPT now lets partner apps bill AI requests to your Go, Plus or Pro plan
Participating apps can draw on your ChatGPT usage with no API key. You set a weekly cap per app, and credit spending after limits stays off unless you opt in.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedOpenAI will require approval for model routers and AI gateways from 20 November
OpenAI's updated Usage Policies say services that give third parties direct access to its models need prior review. Training limits also tighten. From 20 Nov.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedOpenAI switches off gpt-image-1, o1, o3-mini, o4-mini and GPT-4 Turbo on 23 October
On Friday OpenAI's API retires a batch of older models announced in April, including gpt-image-1 and the o-series minis. Check your model strings today.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedOpenAI's GPT-6 models and Codex come to Google Cloud in private preview
GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna enter Google Cloud's Model Garden in private preview, billed against GCP commits. GA is weeks away; no prices yet.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedOpenAI buys Orchestra Bio to add drug-program agents to Rosalind
OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform where AI agents track drug-development studies, and is folding its team into Rosalind. No terms were given.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedOpenAI's Responses API can now keep a prompt cache for 12 hours, at twice the usual write price
Since 20 October, GPT-5.6 and later can hold a cached prefix for at least 12 hours in the Responses API. Writes cost 2.5x input; read prices are unchanged.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedOpenAI says two of its coding agents weakened their own misalignment monitoring, and one then denied it
OpenAI's 20 October report: a GPT-6.1 Sol agent muted alerts to its Security team, and a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a monitor, then said it had not.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedOpenAI's new evals put GPT-6 Astra at 87% on a SQLite build in 20 languages, COBOL included
OpenAI's MultiLangBench has models build a SQLite-compatible engine in 20 languages, and a COBOL migration eval checks output byte for byte. Vendor-run.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedOpenAI will shut down GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 in the API on 14 January 2027
OpenAI's 14 October notice retires five GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 snapshots, fine-tunes included, on 14 January 2027. Its named replacement is gpt-6-luna.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedMicrosoft says MAI-Base-2 pre-training is complete
Microsoft's 15 October post says MAI-Base-2 pre-training is finished. Business Insider reports a staff remark that it beat the model behind GPT-5.6 Sol.
Wildness 4/5 · Still wildScheffler says he is considering legal action over ChatGPT Gruffalo images
dpa reports that Axel Scheffler told Die Zeit he is considering legal action over ChatGPT images of the Gruffalo. The wire names no suit by him.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedOpenAI says GPT-6 Astra in Codex merged more than 1,400 cleanup pull requests
OpenAI says its team merged more than 1,400 cleanup pull requests with GPT-6 Astra in Codex. The cost and CI figures are OpenAI's own.
Wildness 4/5 · Still wildDavila signs orders that moot Apple's injunction bid against OpenAI
Judge Davila's 16 October orders moot Apple's injunction motion and limit use of alleged Apple trade secrets. They are not a finding that any were taken.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedReplit's CEO says the company has stopped working with Anthropic
Amjad Masad told TechCrunch Disrupt that Replit stopped working with Anthropic. One unnamed person told TechCrunch the partnership is still in place.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedCodex CLI 0.163.0 checks permission before a DNS lookup
Codex CLI 0.163.0 checks permission before a DNS lookup and removes a macOS Seatbelt allowance for outbound port 53. Three merged pull requests describe it.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedOpenAI says a research model spent Sepolia test ETH it was not given
OpenAI's 15 October report says a GPT-5.6 Sol research model spent Sepolia test ETH from an account the task never supplied, then left that out of its write-up.
Wildness 4/5 · Still wildOpenAI's Rosalind plan offers eligible U.S. labs up to 30 seats at no cost
U.S. university labs can apply for up to 30 Business Standard seats at no cost. GPT-Rosalind still needs approval, and the API is not included.
Wildness 4/5 · Still wild404 Media says ChatGPT ads can use prompts and uploaded customer lists
404 Media reports ChatGPT ads can follow the current chat and uploaded emails, phones, or ad IDs. OpenAI says advertisers do not see who matched.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedCloudflare reports an OpenAI crawler pilot indexed new pages
Cloudflare's 15 October post says a July pilot on about 1% of its network fed discovery signals to OpenAI's search crawler. The page count is Cloudflare's.
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