Three months ago Dwarkesh, who has been posting incredible blogs and episodes about RL, posted a framing question for his video essay on RLVR which upset a lot of Computer Use folks: We are no strangers to learning in public and are no strangers to the stress of getting things wrong when you have a big platform.
Grokipedia, SpaceXAI’s AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks as part of a v0.3 update, including a new logo and refreshes to its homepage and live edits page. SpaceXAI head of design Benji Taylor calls it a “newly refreshed Grokipedia.”
One of the more intriguing announcements at OpenAI’s Dev Day event on Tuesday came in an aside from CEO Sam Altman, who revealed the company’s new “Decisions API.” The API apparently provides similar functionality to Jev, a model released by TypeSafe AI earlier this month that’s explicitly designed for software automation.
Google has launched Skills globally in Gemini chat, replacing Gems with detailed prompts tailored to specific tasks. Users can invoke a Skill by typing a slash followed by its name. The format originated at Anthropic and is available as an open standard, with text, PDFs and images supported as reference material. Gemini can also generate Skills from past conversations, run them automatically when they match, and chain multiple Skills together.
AI agent Instinct launched Instinct Selections, a product recommendation feature working with local chefs, designers, architects and travel guides to offer human-curated dining, travel and shopping suggestions.
Simon Willison used GPT-6 Astra to build Photo Scrubber, an experimental tool that automatically detects and blurs faces. It is based on Google's MediaPipe C++ library, compiled to WebAssembly through @mediapipe/tasks-vision, and uses the BlazeFace face detection model. All processing runs locally.
Instagram announced an AI 'creative assistant' for its standalone Edits app. It can access account data on likes, views, retention and shares, answer creators' questions about content trends, differences in video performance and audience preferences, and suggest topics, openings, copy, trending audio and scripts. The feature is free for creators, but Meta says 'heavy users' can buy a Meta One subscription for higher usage allowances.
Meta launched the Muse AI agent, saying it could help users send emails and shop online, but requiring them to trust Meta and provide credit card information. After the launch, Meta also announced the Tamagotchi-like Muse Charm device, followed by tools for small businesses, the Muse Enterprise Platform, a Mac app and plans to bring it to Meta smart glasses.
Airbnb introduced AI search in its autumn product update. Users can find properties through text or voice prompts, with the interface dynamically generating filters based on preferences: entering 'baby', for example, automatically brings up options such as cots and playgrounds. The platform also uses AI to summarise property highlights, supports comparisons of wishlisted properties, and adds social features including maps based on friends' trips and community pages. CEO Brian Chesky says this is Airbnb's first move into AI search, with rapid iteration planned over the coming months.
OpenAI announced persistent Dots agents, GPT-6.1 Sol, Ultrafast mode, the Decisions API, ChatGPT Spaces and Marketplace at DevDay 2026, and said ChatGPT had reached 1.2 billion weekly active users.
Amazon Bedrock has introduced Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 in India, using geographic cross-region inference to process data within the country.
Amazon Bedrock now supports in-region inference for Anthropic Claude models in Seoul and Singapore. Seoul supports Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5, while Singapore supports Claude Sonnet 5, all invoked through the bedrock-runtime endpoint.
The US government launched the America.gov AI chatbot this Tuesday, with Google and SpaceXAI participating in its development. It is currently difficult to jailbreak. Asked about Minecraft, it produces a monologue of around 1,800 words, an Easter egg adapting Julian Gough's End Poem shown after completing the game, rather than a model hallucination. Trump said 20-year-old programmer Edward Coristine was one of its lead engineers.
SpaceXAI's AI encyclopaedia Grokipedia has resumed article updates after several months of inactivity. Its live update page shows multiple recent changes, though many entries merely state that all references and sources have been rechecked.
GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, offering stronger reasoning for agentic coding, computer use and everyday professional workloads. OpenAI says it matches GPT-6 Astra on DeepSWE v1.1 at roughly one-fifth the cost per task, and exceeds GPT-6 Sol’s best result by 6.4 percentage points.
At its Dev Day developer conference in San Francisco, OpenAI unveiled several new ChatGPT features for office work. The most prominent was Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT where colleagues can work with the chatbot and new AI agent persona Dots. CEO Sam Altman said pages and files all live in Space, describing it as like cloud storage but more alive.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform, combining software and hardware to add an independent safety layer around AI agents and prevent them escaping testing environments.
Shopify announced that browser-based AI agents can now complete purchases on merchant sites, extending their capabilities from product searches and adding items to carts to checkout. Built on WebMCP and covering Shop Pay, agents can read and update checkout pages and submit transactions with buyer authorisation, without relying on screenshots or web scraping.
At Tuesday's Dev Day, OpenAI announced an expansion of ChatGPT plugins. Developers can build app-like experiences, with dedicated sidebar entries for plugins and support for interactive panels and file viewers.
OpenAI introduced reusable cloud development environments for its software engineering agent Codex at Dev Day. Accessible from computers, phones or the cloud, they speed up task starts and allow teams to share approved settings and permissions.
OpenAI launched Dots, a personal agent assistant powered by GPT-6 Astra, at Tuesday’s Dev Day. It can continuously pursue user-defined goals in the background without being tied to particular hardware or interfaces.
OpenAI announced a range of ChatGPT updates at DevDay, including the open Plugin Extensions system, shared workspace Space, collaborative documents Pages and Slides, Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations, automated workflows and an enterprise marketplace.
AI start-up Wabi, which previously let users build apps with prompts, has pivoted to messaging with Wabi 2.0, positioned as a personal agent that does things for users and instantly builds the interfaces they need. Users can generate apps such as calorie trackers and weightlifting logs within conversations. Access is currently offered only through invitation codes distributed on X.
OpenAI is responding to Meta’s buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can “do nearly anything” across connected apps in the background while learning your preferences over time.
At DevDay 2026, OpenAI unveiled the always-on agent Dots, which can independently take on tasks such as fixing bugs reported in Slack or sending forgotten invoices. It also launched the cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol, while the flagship GPT-6.1 Astra was held back over safety issues.
OpenAI announced extensions to Codex and its API at DevDay 2026 in San Francisco. Codex adds reusable cloud environments, repository security scanning through Codex Security Cloud, a desktop code-review view and a redesigned CLI, while the Agents API gains Computer Use, Tool Search and Context Compaction.
At its San Francisco DevDay keynote on 29 September, OpenAI unveiled the AI agent product Dots, competing with Meta's recently launched Muse. Dots initially opens only to paying ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium and Enterprise subscribers.
Condé Nast partnered with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) to build multimodal video retrieval on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Service, using the TwelveLabs Marengo embedding model to jointly encode visuals, audio and transcripts.
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer launched personal AI assistant Dazzle. It does not read emails or calendars, instead analysing only a phone's camera roll to understand hobbies, dietary preferences and style choices.
Meta announced it was expanding its Muse AI agent to small businesses and adding integrations including Shopify, Dropbox and Slack.
OpenAI has published a DevDay 2026 recap rounding up more than 20 announcements spanning GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, the API, safety and new tools for developers. The original gives only an overview and does not detail each update.
Manus released version 2.0, expanding its AI agents into a platform with video editing, multiplayer game hosting, and personal agents that run through a phone number and can be controlled remotely from a phone. In the test configuration, the new Cascade agent framework used 23.2% fewer tokens than the previous system and reduced operating costs by 32%.
OpenAI has released dots, a proactive assistant that keeps work moving on complex projects and everyday tasks. The company says dots lets users stay in control as work progresses.
GPT-6 Astra processes a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol. Its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.
OpenAI launched the next phase of Codex Originals, seeking real stories and projects from developers, researchers and creators using Codex. Interested participants can submit their experiences and project descriptions through the form below.
Simon Willison used Opus 5.5 to build a tool analysing any Bluesky account for automated reply-bot signals. These include replying within seconds, never posting original content or image links and replying only to high-follower accounts, and using question marks in replies. Bluesky's free API makes such investigations more feasible than on Twitter.
Proaction used Codex, GPT-Live-1 and GPT-6 Astra to build, operate and sell a modern fleet-management service, increasing sales by 60% and saving over 75 hours.
Datacor embedded Amazon Quick Sight in TrackAbout to provide industrial gas and welding distributors with interactive dashboards and natural-language search, allowing business users to query rental data without raising IT tickets.
Simon Willison released commit-rewriter 0.2. The tool relates to git, but the original text does not explain its specific functionality or update details.
GitHub Security Lab released Fuzzing Taskflow, an autonomous fuzzing pipeline for C/C++ projects. Given a GitHub repository, it identifies entry points, analyses build systems, writes harnesses, runs AFL++, reads coverage reports and improves harnesses, then classifies every crash and generates vulnerability reports.