OpenAI logs 3.1 agent-workdays of effort for every human workday

OpenAI logs 3.1 agent-workdays of effort for every human workday

6 September 2026 · L4 Models · 3.1 to 1 · Confirmed

For every day a person works there, AI agents do about three days of work alongside them. It is the first time a lab has published its own number for this, rather than someone estimating it from outside.

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OpenAI

OpenAI's median researcher uses over $600 a day of inference at API prices

6 September 2026 · L4 Models · $600/day · Confirmed

Running an AI model costs money each time you use it. A typical OpenAI researcher gets through more than $600 a day of that, valued at the prices outside customers pay. The busiest tenth get through more than $7,000 a day.

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OpenAI

Astra GPU allocation fell a further 59.2 percent after a safety restriction

6 September 2026 · L4 Models · further -59.2% · Confirmed

OpenAI found early signs that its newest model might be capable of serious cyber attacks, so it locked the model into more secure conditions. In the week that followed, the share of its computers running that model dropped by another 59 percent.

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OpenAI

OpenAI's chief scientist argues in public for voluntary slowdowns

6 September 2026 · L4 Models · No figure · Confirmed

OpenAI's most senior researcher wrote publicly that no lab has solved safety well enough to keep speeding up, and that companies should slow down by choice until agreed safety limits exist. He published it three days after his own company released a new frontier model.

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OpenAI

Other model classes offset about 85 percent of that drop, leaving total compute largely unchanged

6 September 2026 · L4 Models · ~85% offset · Confirmed

The work did not stop, it moved. OpenAI says the rise in other model classes offset about 85 percent of the decline, leaving total allocation in the workloads it analysed largely unchanged. Largely is not entirely: about a seventh of the reduction stayed reduced. The safety measure redirected most of the work rather than reducing it.

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OpenAI

A national poll puts 69 percent of Americans against a local data centre

6 September 2026 · Band Rules and society · 69% · Confirmed

Nearly seven in ten Americans do not want a data centre built near them, and it is one of the few things both parties agree on. Fifty seven percent of Republicans oppose it, and eighty one percent of Democrats. Data centres are the buildings that house the machines AI runs on.

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Anthropic is reported to have leased 14.8 gigawatts of compute in eleven months

6 September 2026 · Band Money · 14.8 GW · Reported

One gigawatt powers roughly 750,000 homes, so this is enough electricity for about eleven million households. Anthropic has agreed to rent that much computing power over the coming years. The figure comes from a reporter adding up public announcements, not from the company.

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Anthropic