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OpenAI raises its Security Bug Bounty rewards and adds bonuses for report quality and loyalty
OpenAI says it is raising rewards in its Security Bug Bounty program, "more than quadrupling" the midpoint of the reward ranges for medium, high and critical findings on average.Researchers say GPT-6 Astra edited a small Qwen model's weights to improve its math, without training
A post on X from the account rikiyatakehi says its authors asked GPT-6 Astra to edit the weights of Qwen3.5-0.8B to improve its math. They say the model directly changed only 0.016% of the weights, fixing the small model's reasoning loops, improving math up to 6x and instruction following 3x, with no gradients or training. They call the approach Weight-Space Programming.OpenAI introduces LifeVal, a benchmark of everyday personal-assistant tasks
OpenAI says it built LifeVal, a new benchmark shaped by feedback from thousands of ChatGPT users on where they most want help from a personal assistant. The tasks range from finding childcare to accessing government services and managing personal finances.OpenAI describes Pando, a Git-compatible backend built for Codex-scale development
OpenAI's engineers say the load on the company's monorepo grew so fast with Codex (more branches, pushes, merges, fetches and clones from development environments, research jobs and CI) that, from around the end of 2025, fetches and pushes were slow and merges failed, with reliability at times below 90%. In response they built Pando, a new backend for Git repositories, which OpenAI says now powers all development in its monorepo.OpenAI help page says ChatGPT and Codex limits will be shared from December
An X post by TokenGremlin, with about 190 likes and 60 replies on X by October 31, says OpenAI's help page "Understanding ChatGPT and Codex usage limits" now states that from December, the Plus, Pro and Business allowance will be shared across ChatGPT and Codex. OpenAI has not announced the change in a post of its own that we have seen.Researchers say a public ChatGPT share link could run code in a victim's session; OpenAI fixed it on October 26
The security firm Parameter published a write-up on October 28 saying its researchers found a way to run attacker-controlled JavaScript inside the signed-in ChatGPT session of anyone who opened a public conversation share. OpenAI fixed the issue on October 26 and classified the report as P1, according to the write-up.