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At 15:50 UTC on Nov 2, Tibo (@thsottiaux), whose X bio reads "Codex & ChatGPT @OpenAI", posted that OpenAI is working on expanding the family of frontier models that power dots, including GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Terra, with others to come. He said Terra brings speed and "a nice personality upgrade" and will help bring dots to more people. Dots are the always-on agents in ChatGPT with their own cloud computer, launched on GPT-6 Astra. This is a first-hand post by an OpenAI employee, not a formal company announcement; no timing or plan details have been published.

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Security firm Parameter published an exploit chain in which an attacker publishes a malicious conversation through ChatGPT's normal sharing feature; when a signed-in victim opens the /share/ link, the payload runs as chatgpt.com in their session, lists conversations, reads a private chat that was never shared, and sends data out. Parameter reported it through OpenAI's bug bounty on October 18; OpenAI raised it from P2 to P1, fixed it on October 26 and paid a $5,000 bounty. Parameter reports no real-world use, and users do not need to do anything.

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On October 31, Tibo (@thsottiaux), who works on Codex and ChatGPT at OpenAI, announced on X, as day 26 of his daily shipping posts, that ChatGPT mobile now supports switching between accounts, with desktop coming soon. OpenAI's updated Help Center article says users can stay signed in to up to 2 accounts with one active at a time; chats, memory, files, subscriptions, billing and workspaces stay separate, and switching never moves or merges data. The post drew about 10,000 likes and 1.36M views.

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On Oct 30 OpenAI introduced Private Intelligence, a business privacy offering that bundles Zero Data Retention, a Private Inference confidential-computing preview for the API, agent access and approval controls, encryption and compliance certifications across ChatGPT, Codex and the API, built with some of its largest customers.

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On Oct 28 Shopify shipped its 10th Edition (Fall ’26, theme Exponential, 150+ updates including 57 for developers), centered on opening its catalog, cart and checkout to any agent. Shop.dev gives one connection to Shopify Catalog (1B+ products), sign-in with Shop, cart, checkout and Shop Pay; Shop.md is a customizable skill that turns ChatGPT, Claude or other agents into personal shoppers; Shop Pay now works inside Meta’s Muse, Claude Duet and Instinct, and Claude Duet, Grok Bot and Instinct can also use it for brands not on Shopify. Every Liquid and Hydrogen storefront and checkout now exposes WebMCP tools.

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This is an X discussion, not an official launch. On Oct 28, X user Angel (@Angaisb_) posted a screenshot saying ChatGPT is unifying Chat and Work and asked how that would change usage limits; the post drew about 440,000 views. About an hour and a half later, Tibo (@thsottiaux), whose X bio reads Codex & ChatGPT @OpenAI, quoted it: the team is working on this but it is not rolling out yet, the plan is to bring the best of Chat and Work together at some point this year, and they will proceed carefully and take their time. His reply drew about 2,800 likes and more than 900 replies.

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On Oct 28 OpenAI announced through @ChatGPT that users can now text their dot, the always-on agent inside ChatGPT. You can hand it a task or something to watch using text, photos or voice notes, and it texts you proactively when there is a relevant update. Texting runs over iMessage or RCS, not plain SMS; only you can text your dot and it can only text you. It is rolling out in beta to a limited number of US Pro users and is not supported in Business or Enterprise workspaces. Texts pass through the third-party provider Linq, and OpenAI says the conversation is not end-to-end encrypted.

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On Oct 27 the official ChatGPT account announced that iCloud Mail and iCloud Calendar plugins are available in ChatGPT on all plans across web, desktop and iOS, rolling out globally. Users can ask ChatGPT to find an email, catch up on their inbox, check what is next or update a calendar event. The two plugins are installed separately, both connect with an Apple app-specific password, and both include read-only contact lookup; standalone Contacts and Reminders plugins are not part of this launch.

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On Oct 26 OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, an efficient model for visual reasoning, precise computer use and natural writing. It is rolling out today to Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex, and in the API as gpt-6.1-terra. Standard API pricing is $1 input, $0.05 cached input and $5 output per million tokens, which OpenAI says is 50% lower than GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol, with a 1,050,000-token context window. By OpenAI's figures it scores 15 points higher than GPT-5.6 Terra on Agents' Last Exam at medium effort for about a third of the cost, and solves 50.3% of Terminal-Bench 4.0 at max effort.

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