Summary: ChatGPT Images 2.5 in 30 Seconds OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on 8 September 2026. Sharper detail, more precise editing, faster generation. Generation latency is down by up to 50% compared with Images 2.0. Sketch is new: draw inside ChatGPT and use the drawing as the reference for the final image. Type @Sketch to open it. Also new: templates for popular formats, comments placed on the image itself for focused edits, and the option to share the prompt alongside the image. Rolling out to all ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex users, on every plan, across desktop, mobile and web. Two new API models: GPT-Image-2.5 Flare (the fast default) and GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst (slower, more precise). OpenAI says more than 3 billion images a week are already created across ChatGPT Images and the GPT-Image models in the API. Whatever else Images 2.5 is, it is an update to one of the most heavily used products the company ships. ...

Summary: Five Days of Receipts Finished Portal on its own. 3,336 tool calls, roughly 21 hours, a $571.18 token bill. Launched a rocket in Factorio Space Age 2.1. No model had ever pushed past blue science before. Beat Pokémon in 18h 12m. GPT-5.6 Sol needed 96h 35m for the same run. Scored 19 out of 20 on a robot arm, at $0.94 per attempt. Produced 3,295 editable objects in Blender from a single prompt. What ties them together: every one of these has a price tag, and it is not small. The launch write-up covered the benchmark table, the pricing and the access rules. Five days on, the picture has changed: instead of OpenAI’s slides, we can now look at what people actually got the model to do. ...

Summary: Grok 4.7 in 30 Seconds Grok 4.7 is not out. As of 5 September 2026 there is no SpaceXAI announcement, model card, API model id or price for it. The newest model in production is still Grok 4.6 (12 August 2026). The only date signal is Musk’s 2 September post, which points to mid September. That is an inference, not a date SpaceXAI committed to. The parameter counts and benchmark tables you will find online are invented. None of them trace back to SpaceXAI. Has Grok 4.7 Been Released? No. As of 5 September 2026, Grok 4.7 has not shipped. ...

Summary: Where to Find Astra Not free. Free and Go plans do not include Astra; their default model stays GPT-5.6 Luna. On Plus, Astra does not appear in regular Chat. Access arrives through ChatGPT Work and Codex. On Pro, Business and Enterprise, it shows up in the model picker under the Pro option, labelled GPT-6 Pro. The model underneath is Astra. Enterprise workspaces get it off by default at launch. An admin has to enable it. Codex CLI 0.153.0 or newer is required, and the desktop app needs updating too. In the API the model id is gpt-6-astra: 1.05M token context, 128K output, $10 in / $50 out per million tokens. Our GPT-6 Astra launch write-up covered what the model is, the benchmark table and the price tag. Two days later the question landing in the inbox is a different one: “I pay for Plus, there is no Astra anywhere in my model picker, where is it?” ...

The CYD in 30 seconds The Cheap Yellow Display is the ESP32-2432S028R: an ESP32-WROOM-32 soldered onto a yellow PCB with a 2.8" 240x320 touch screen, microSD slot, RGB LED and light sensor, for roughly the price of a bare dev board plus a screen. Two revisions ship under the same model number. The 1x USB board uses an ILI9341, the 2x USB (CYD2USB) board uses an ST7789 and needs its colours inverted. The screen, the touch panel and the SD card each take their own SPI pins, so almost every GPIO is already spoken for. You get four usable pins: IO22, IO27, input-only IO35, and IO21 if you are willing to give up backlight control. Board setting in Arduino IDE is plain ESP32 Dev Module. The whole setup lives in User_Setup.h, not in your sketch. A white screen almost always means the wrong driver define, not a dead board. Buying an ESP32, a 2.8" TFT, a touch controller and an SD slot separately costs more than this entire board, and you still have to wire it. That is the whole reason the Cheap Yellow Display became the default “I want a screen on my ESP32” answer. ...