OpenAI's Private Intelligence page now labels Private Inference an API preview for eligible workflows, combining confidential computing with access controls intended to protect prompts and responses during processing. Zero Data Retention with Private Safety Processing remains the documented available control.
Why it matters: The page moves Private Inference from a future promise to a named preview state, but the public material still does not provide implementation, attestation, pricing or enrollment detail sufficient for a regulated production decision.
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law, a legal-specialist configuration of GPT-6 Astra with legal-analysis instructions and a search index spanning U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, court rules and administrative decisions across more than 230 million URLs. Selected firms can use it through Trusted Access in ChatGPT and Codex; API access is forthcoming.
Why it matters: Legal research, drafting, firm knowledge and partner tools now meet at one model and authorization boundary. The dedicated index may improve source retrieval, but it also increases the consequence of stale authority, missed adverse law, matter-data leakage…
OpenAI let eligible API customers create new Europe-region projects with in-region processing and zero data retention, while new ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu workspaces could store customer content at rest in Europe.
Why it matters: European organizations gained a concrete regional-control option, but residency applied only to eligible data paths and newly created projects or workspaces.