GPT-5.5 Arrives: The Capability Dividend Is Already Being Paid

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on 23 April 2026 with a 1-million-token API context window and $5/$30 per million token pricing. The practical shift is that complex multi-prompt workflows now collapse into a single prompt with autonomous multi-step reasoning. The operators who redesign their workflows in the next six months will capture the Capability Dividend. The operators who wait will watch that edge become standard practice by early 2027. OpenAI's "High" Preparedness classification for bio/chem and cybersecurity capabilities should be attached to every Caribbean organization's AI vendor risk register, starting now.