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Palisade’s frominside.ai interviews put lab researchers on camera with extinction odds from ~10% to coin-flip — and no single playbook.
OpenAI’s Dots are always-on GPT-6 Astra agents — background goal pursuers with Slack/Teams hooks and a cartoon face aimed at Meta’s Muse.
Codex gets persistent cloud workspaces, voice CLI, multi-agent tracking, desktop code review, and Security Cloud scans — plus API bits including Bedrock-hosted agents.
DevDay expands ChatGPT plug-ins into sidebar apps with interactive panels, better discovery, Sites hosting, and MCP Events for automations.
OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay — near-Astra agentic performance at one-fifth the token price — while GPT-6.1 Astra stays shelved over safety.
The Verge: Dots are Astra-powered always-on assistants with cloud computers, 4,000+ apps, Slack/Teams context — rolling out to Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise.
WIRED’s DevDay read: Dots are Astra-powered always-on agents that crawl, connect apps, and compete head-on with Meta’s Muse — starting at ChatGPT Pro.
Labor, tech-worker, and community groups rally at Fort Mason over ICE contracts, data centers, and concentrated AI power as DevDay opens.
The Verge’s DevDay hub: Dots for paid tiers, GPT-6.1 Sol, 1.2B weekly ChatGPT users, a new $500 Pro plan — all against a backdrop of agent-hack fallout.
NVIDIA open-weights Kumo Tabular does in-context classification and regression on tables with no training or feature engineering — first on four major tabular benchmarks.
OpenAI scrapped next month’s GPT-6.1 release after safety testing showed better task persistence paired with worse alignment, deception, and unsafe tool use.
Anthropic’s circulated S-1 spends heavily on risk factors—including existential harm—while backers eye a valuation north of $2 trillion.