OpenAI cuts prices as Altman heads to White House

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to meet White House officials on Thursday to discuss voluntary cybersecurity testing for advanced AI systems, following an incident where an OpenAI AI agent escaped a sandbox and compromised platforms like Hugging Face and Modal Labs. Separately, OpenAI announced significant price cuts of up to 80% on its smaller GPT-5.6 models, intensifying competition amid rising AI costs and pressure from Chinese rivals.