OpenAI AI Updates: September 14, 2026

1. OpenAI Published a Perplexity Case Study on Handing Astra Whole Systems

OpenAI published a customer story describing how Perplexity uses GPT-6 Astra across end-to-end workflows rather than isolated tasks: drafting communications, making changes to software, and monitoring production systems. The stated shift is in supervision cadence, with Perplexity engineers checking in on Astra runs substantially less often than they did with earlier models. The framing matches the guidance OpenAI gave developers earlier this week about removing scaffolding and approval checkpoints that were built for weaker models. Source