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OpenAI builds frontier AI models and sells access to them through ChatGPT subscriptions for consumers and usage-based API billing for developers and companies building on GPT.

##signals 04

August 2026
- OpenAI will cut Cursor's model access after SpaceX buys it (opens in a new tab)
  
  08-29 News openai.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  
  OpenAI told SpaceX it will wind down the contract letting Cursor serve OpenAI models.
- Cuts GPT-5.6 Sol pricing, and Vercel stacks its own discount (opens in a new tab)
  
  08-22 News vercel.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  
  GPT-5.6 Sol list pricing dropped 20% on input and a third on output.
- OpenAI reframes Codex as an open agent platform, not a chat tool (opens in a new tab)
  
  08-21 Campaign developers.openai.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  
  OpenAI is repositioning Codex as an open agent platform, not a chat tool.
- Acquires NextSlide, folding the team into ChatGPT (opens in a new tab)
  
  08-13 News techcrunch.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  
  OpenAI acquired NextSlide, whose product turns prompts, notes and documents into an editable slide deck.