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At 00:43 UTC on Nov 1, Tibo (@thsottiaux), who works on Codex and ChatGPT at OpenAI, posted "Banked 1/2" on X; the post has about 6,860 likes and 660K views. In his day 26 post the day before he had teased that "next two days will be resets… banked…", so this is day 27 of his 28-day run: the first of two Codex usage resets you can save and use when you choose. According to OpenAI's Help Center, a banked reset does not refresh usage on arrival; you redeem it in desktop Settings > Usage & billing, web Usage settings, or /usage in the CLI. Eligible plans and the expiry for this particular offer have not been published.

On Oct 31, OpenAI's Help Center added a page titled "Understanding ChatGPT and Codex usage limits": starting in December, the usage allowance on Plus, Pro, and Business plans will be shared across ChatGPT and Codex as OpenAI brings the agentic capabilities of Work into the main ChatGPT experience. Usage will be measured in tokens, so stronger models and more complex tasks use more; Instant chat will not draw from the allowance. Users will see combined remaining usage and reset times in Settings > Usage, and can wait for a reset, upgrade, or buy credits when they run out. OpenAI says it expects most users will not need to wait for resets more often than they do now, but it has not given an exact start date or per-plan allowances. The news drew strong concern from Plus users on X.

On October 30, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic each published posts committing to one shared robots.txt training-preference signal: a site writes a single Disallow group for the policy token __usage_ai-training to tell every participating provider not to use its content for generative AI training. The mechanism comes from an IETF individual Internet-Draft filed that day by Anthropic standards lead Kevin Kelley and is not yet a formal standard. Timelines differ: The Verge and CNA report Anthropic has already started implementing it, OpenAI says "in the coming months", Microsoft honors it from February 1, 2027, and Google plans support during 2027.

The OpenAI Developers account shared a post by Steve (@stevendcoffey), who works on the API at OpenAI, listing five Agents API updates this week: Codex-style Auto Review of commands before execution, compaction that runs in the background, an experimental time-awareness feature, updating a session's tools at any time, and automatic caching of system prompts across all sessions. As of writing, the official API changelog does not list these items yet.

OpenAI's "Data controls in ChatGPT" Help Center page now has a "Trusted Access on personal accounts" section: during sessions in Trusted Access programs such as Daybreak Blue, OpenAI may use interaction content to improve its models even when "Improve the model for everyone" is off, to strengthen safeguards against cyber misuse, while other activity still follows the user's setting. Emails that several users shared on X say the change takes effect November 29, and researchers including Sean Heelan criticized it for pulling unreported vulnerabilities and research into training data.

In its October 30 ChatGPT Business release notes, OpenAI said GPT-6 Rosalind Research is rolling out to a limited set of customers with Research approval. It shows up in the model picker in ChatGPT Work and Codex, not in the Chat tab, and separately approved organizations can call it through the API as gpt-6-rosalind. OpenAI's token-based Enterprise rate card lists it at $15 per million input tokens, $1.50 cached input and $75 output, three times the price of GPT-5.5 Rosalind Research.

OpenAI published the stable Codex CLI release rust-v0.166.0 on GitHub at 19:47 UTC on Oct 29. It adds keyboard-driven transcript selection by word, line and page with built-in search, adds GPT-6.1 Terra to the bundled, Vertex AI and Amazon Bedrock model catalogs, introduces codex queue --resume and codex doctor --network-only, and shows clearer safety-block explanations with selectable safer follow-up prompts in the TUI.

On Oct 30, AWS announced that Daybreak Red (GPT-5.6 Cyber, model ID openai.gpt-5.6-cyber), the OpenAI security model built for vulnerability research, is now on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-East), after previously being offered only in US East (Ohio). Access still requires passing OpenAI Daybreak eligibility. GovCloud short-context pricing is $16.875 input and $101.25 output per 1M tokens, about 23% above Ohio at $13.75 and $82.50.