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OpenAI launched Dots. Meanwhile, xAI already owns Dot.com, and the domain redirects straight to Grok Bot. This troll feels almost too perfect to be accidental.
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OpenAI used DevDay 2026 to push ChatGPT much further into always-on agents, cheaper frontier-level models, and managed agent infrastructure. Main announcements:
Dots: always-on agents inside ChatGPT that can work across connected apps and use cloud computers to handle ongoing tasks.
GPT-6.1 Sol: OpenAI says it gets close to GPT-6 Astra on coding, computer use, and professional work at roughly one-fifth of Astra’s token pricing.
Agents API: a managed runtime for building agents with persistent sessions, orchestration, tools, browsers, MCP connections, and subagents.
Ultrafast: a premium speed tier for faster frontier-model performance.
ChatGPT Space: shared environments where people and agents can collaborate.
New Pro 500 plan: priced at $500/month, with significantly higher usage and access to faster compute.
Codex in the cloud: run Codex remotely from your phone or another device, with reusable cloud development environments.
And OpenAI drops Dots. Elon’s xAI already owns Dot.com… and redirects it straight to Grok Bot. This level of trolling is diabolical… How did OpenAI launch Dots without owning Dots .com?
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AI HIGHLIGHTS
📝 Sonnet or Opus? Anthropic just published its own answer. The new guide explains where Sonnet 5.5 makes more sense. Save this if you switch between them often.
🤝 Ex-DeepMind lead Shivani opened sign-ups for Fo, a personal agent that calls in human assistants when AI gets stuck. Watch how this hybrid setup actually works.
🛍️ Meta is expanding Muse to small businesses, with integrations for Shopify, Slack, Dropbox, Stripe, Notion, Canva,... It now works across sales, marketing & operations.
🚀 OpenAI is discussing a massive $30B funding round at a roughly $1.4T valuation ahead of its delayed IPO. And investors still seem eager to pile in this mega-round.
🧠 AI leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI,... are warning about a possible “intelligence explosion,” where self-improving systems could accelerate progress dramatically.
😅 Anthropic basically gave GLM-5.3 free advertising: 50 successful ExploitBench runs versus Mythos Preview’s 56. It still says its safeguards were far easier to bypass.
💰 Big AI Fundraising: Instinct raised $1B at a $10B valuation just one month after being valued at $2.5B. The viral AI agent can book trips, make calls, pay bills, and handle daily tasks.
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🤖 Dots gives you always-on AI agents that keep working on tasks for you, even when you’re away, so work keeps moving forward.
🧠 GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra-level intelligence to ChatGPT and the API, while offering lower API costs for developers.
🎙️ Codex CLI adds voice control, multi-agent management with
/agents, worktrees, better session resumes, and a redesigned terminal UI.
AI BREAKTHROUGH
Liquid AI announced d1, its first decision model, designed for fast, structured choices inside software systems rather than long-form chatbot responses. Liquid says d1 is the first model to outperform Jev on Hugging Face’s Decision Index.
It performs strongly on multilingual decision tasks.
Liquid says it is more resistant to prompt injection, an important property when models are making software or agent decisions from untrusted inputs.
It handles longer context more effectively.
d1 is optimized for outputs software can consume directly, such as choosing an action, ranking options, routing requests, or deciding whether a condition is satisfied.
It is available through the Liquid API, with OpenRouter support coming soon.
Jev itself has been evaluated on more than 150,000 scoreable requests in the current Decision Index suite. So beating Jev there does not mean d1 is generally smarter than frontier LLMs. The benchmark measures capabilities such as decision selection, reading, inference, composition, and transfer.
→ d1 targets a different AI bottleneck: instead of using an expensive reasoning model every time software needs to make a small choice, developers can use a specialized model built specifically to make those decisions quickly and reliably.
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