OpenAI might be shipping a persistent agent called o.

2026-09-29 12:58

OpenAI might be shipping a persistent agent called o. Yep, another personal agent. One-letter name, never clocks out. You hand it a goal instead of a message. It runs in a cloud sandbox for hours or days, breaks the task down, fixes its own mistakes, then comes back to you when it's done. Close the session and it's still running. It gets its own email identity, so it can take on async work like your inbox. It's a ChatGPT Pro perk, $100/month and up. $20 Plus users probably don't get it. No word on whether it trickles down. Goes straight at xAI's Grok Bot, but with no standalone app. It just lives inside ChatGPT.

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol.

It scores 75.2% on DeepSWE v1.1, ahead of flagship GPT-6 Astra at 74.8%, for a fifth the price: $2/$10 per million tokens, $0.10 cached input. One task costs $1.50 against Astra's $7.70. Computer use on OSWorld 2.0: 71.4%, 2.1 points behind Astra, roughly a seventh of the cost. GPT-6 Sol held the flagship spot for 7 days. https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol

2026-09-30

DeepSeek-harness got a desktop app

. Did not see that coming.macOS and Windows both. Beyond the official key, it now takes a DeepSeek account login, so they're going mainstream. My bet: account subscriptions ship soon. API key access stays open either way, you can still point it at third parties.

2026-09-29

I stuffed an agent into an Android phone.

You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika

2026-11-01

My product went profitable, and something in me broke.

Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.

2026-11-01