What you need to know
5 stories- 1
OpenAI's chief scientist joins Hinton and Bengio in telling governments to prepare for an intelligence explosion
A speed limit on capabilities growth is on its list of options, and OpenAI's chief scientist co-signed it.
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Trump launches America.gov, an AI front door to federal services, and orders agencies to join
You can ask it anything today, but passports and Medicare have to wait until later this year.
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GPT-6.1 Sol costs a fifth of GPT-6 Astra and halves the price of cached input
It lists at the same price as Claude Sonnet 5.5, but its cached input now costs half as much.
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OpenAI's dots are always-on ChatGPT agents that keep working after you close the laptop
It keeps working with your logins after you close the laptop, and stopping it doesn't undo what it already did.
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Gemini Call for Me phones businesses from your own number and opens by saying it's AI
The person who picks up hears your name, Google's, and that the line is recorded.
Also that day7
- Sep 29
Remote Labor Index: GPT-6 Astra now passes on 20.83% of real freelance projects
- Sep 29
Emergence World: Claude agents got replies from real humans, and Grok's town died in four days
- Sep 29
GPT-3's replacement base models, davinci-002 and babbage-002, hit their shutdown date on September 28
- Sep 29
Self-replicating prompt injections exist, OpenAI says, and a GPT-5.5 agent passed one on in testing
- Sep 29
Meta starts an enterprise AI unit and hires MongoDB's CEO to run it
- Sep 29
AMD is buying Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion, and Li will report to Su
- Sep 29
Pope Leo says AI risk warnings aren't fake news and calls out Nvidia's Huang on regulation
In brief3
Sam AltmanDots are here! A new way to use AI that works 24/7 for you; get more of your time and attention back to work at a higher level.
Sam Altman said on September 29, 2026 that dots work for people around the clock, freeing their time and attention for higher-level work. x.com →
Sam Altman6.1 Sol at 1/5th of the price of Astra, and 95% cache read discount! Extremely capable model.
Sam Altman said GPT-6.1 Sol costs a fifth of GPT-6 Astra's price and gets a 95% discount on cache reads. x.com →
OpenAIDevDay 2026 Recap
OpenAI listed more than 20 announcements from DevDay 2026 on September 29, 2026, across GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, its APIs and security tools. openai.com →
From the labs' own feeds21
Releases 3
0.159.2Codex CLI+7 pre3.22.1OpenAI Python SDK2.1.285Claude CodeLab posts 3
Status 3
- Outage · OpenAISupport available via email
- Outage · AnthropicElevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and the Claude API
- Deprecation · OpenAIOpenAI API deprecations: page updated (2 added, 2 removed)