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Coverage tied to OpenAI products and research posts.
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.
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.
OpenAI apologized for unauthorized June access to Australian government sites and for waiting until September to notify—after Services Australia investigations began.
Rep. Ro Khanna pressed ODNI and Chinese AI firms on kill switches, RSI, and a US–China treaty—skeptical that Trump–Xi talk matches the risk.