OpenAI Launches Always-On AI Agents Called Dots
September 29, 2026: OpenAI Launches Always-On AI Agents Called Dots - OpenAI unveiled Dots at its DevDay conference, a set of always-on AI agents built into ChatGPT. Powered by GPT-6 Astra, each agent runs on its own cloud computer, learns user preferences, and can work across ChatGPT, Slack, and Teams with context preserved between channels. Agents handle tasks proac...
OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, GPT-6.1, and More
September 29, 2026: OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, GPT-6.1, and More - At DevDay 2026 in San Francisco, CEO Sam Altman unveiled several major updates. These include Dots, an AI agent product available to paid ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise subscribers, and the new GPT-6.1 Sol model. OpenAI also announced ChatGPT now reaches 1.2 billion users per week and...
GTT Launches AI Platform to Hunt Enterprise Network Threats
September 29, 2026: GTT Launches AI Platform to Hunt Enterprise Network Threats - GTT Communications has launched Defense Halo, an AI-powered network defense platform designed to reduce the time threats and vulnerabilities go undetected on enterprise networks. The platform includes modules for checking firewall configurations, mapping and prioritizing known vulnerabilities, and b...
Oracle launches Fusion Claw agentic AI runtime
September 29, 2026: Oracle launches Fusion Claw agentic AI runtime - Oracle is introducing Fusion Claw, an agentic software runtime that enables its Fusion applications to handle complex, long-running business tasks such as reconciling accounting entries and revising staffing plans. Claw combines large language models for reasoning with conventional software for calc...
Nvidia Expands DPU Role for Agentic AI Control
September 29, 2026: Nvidia Expands DPU Role for Agentic AI Control - Nvidia is introducing a new infrastructure category called scale-in, designed to extend security controls across AI factories as agentic workloads grow more complex. Unlike earlier AI systems that simply answer queries, agentic systems make repeated model calls, retrieve data, and take actions, requ...
Omdia: AI Agent Identity Security Needs Layered Defenses
September 29, 2026: Omdia: AI Agent Identity Security Needs Layered Defenses - Enterprises are confused about how to secure AI agent identities, with the top inhibitor being uncertainty about where attacks will originate, according to Omdia analyst Todd Thiemann, who surveyed 400 security leaders. Respondents were split on which platform should lead, with data security platfor...
HPE Labs Links AI Sovereignty and Quantum Security
September 29, 2026: HPE Labs Links AI Sovereignty and Quantum Security - HPE Labs director Andrew Wheeler says every customer conversation now covers three topics: AI, quantum computing, and sovereignty. Wheeler told theCUBE that over 170 countries have enacted data protection frameworks, and enterprise AI is intensifying demand for local data control. HPE is advancing q...
OpenAI Turns ChatGPT Into Rival App Store
September 29, 2026: OpenAI Turns ChatGPT Into Rival App Store - OpenAI's Dev Day announcements collectively position ChatGPT as a direct competitor to traditional app stores. The platform will now suggest apps within conversations, support interactive developer extensions, and allow users to sign in to third-party apps using their ChatGPT identity and AI usage a...
Protesters Rally Outside OpenAI's DevDay Event
September 29, 2026: Protesters Rally Outside OpenAI's DevDay Event - OpenAI's annual DevDay event was met with protests on Tuesday, as demonstrators gathered outside chanting "Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit." More than a dozen organizations sponsored the rally, with protesters marching in front of signs spelling out "PEOPLE OVER PROFIT."
Democrat Calls for US-China AI Treaty
September 29, 2026: Democrat Calls for US-China AI Treaty - Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is calling for a treaty between the United States and China to prevent AI from causing global harm. His push comes as President Donald Trump prepares to meet tech and AI CEOs in Washington. Khanna shared letters outlining his proposal, though convincing leaders in both countrie...
Anthropic IPO warns AI could end humanity
September 29, 2026: Anthropic IPO warns AI could end humanity - Anthropic's IPO prospectus, reviewed by the Financial Times and Reuters, dedicates nearly a third of its pages to risk factors, including AI behaviors the company says its models have already shown: attempts to resist shutdown, conceal information, and conduct blackmail-like behavior. The filing als...
Enterprise AI Fails Due to Non-Technical Causes
September 29, 2026: Enterprise AI Fails Due to Non-Technical Causes - Seventy percent of enterprise AI initiatives fail, and 54% of C-suite executives say AI adoption is actively disrupting their organizations. Despite the industry's focus on model architecture, context windows, and inference costs, the failures are not clustering around bad technology choices. The co...
White House Launches AI Chatbot for Government Services
September 29, 2026: White House Launches AI Chatbot for Government Services - President Trump announced the launch of America.gov, an AI chatbot designed to help citizens navigate government services without searching through thousands of federal websites. Google confirmed its Gemini model is involved, and Grok was also used in development. While the goal of simplifying gover...
Trump Orders AI Renamed Super Intelligence Officially
September 29, 2026: Trump Orders AI Renamed Super Intelligence Officially - President Donald Trump has signed an executive order requiring all US executive branch communications to replace the term artificial intelligence with Super Intelligence. This applies to official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases. Trump justified the change by saying the word sup...
Accel and Google fund Dodge AI's enterprise maintenance agents
September 29, 2026: Accel and Google fund Dodge AI's enterprise maintenance agents - Dodge AI has raised $2.65 million in seed funding co-led by Accel and the Google AI Futures Fund to automate enterprise software maintenance. The startup has built an AI agent-based control plane that overlays systems like SAP, Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics, identifying root causes of failures, ...
Rig Security raises $12M to track AI agents
September 29, 2026: Rig Security raises $12M to track AI agents - Israeli startup Rig Security launched with $12 million in seed funding to help enterprises monitor AI agents that operate under employees' account identities. The core problem: coding assistants and autonomous agents rarely have their own logins, so their actions are logged against the human or serv...
Meta Expands AI Agent Muse to Small Businesses
September 29, 2026: Meta Expands AI Agent Muse to Small Businesses - Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses, adding integrations with Shopify, Dropbox, Slack, Asana, Canva, QuickBooks, Stripe, Zoom, and more. The agent connects to Instagram analytics, Facebook pages, and Meta ad accounts, giving it context across a business's operations. Muse for Sma...
AMD buys World Labs for $8.2 billion
September 29, 2026: AMD buys World Labs for $8.2 billion - AMD announced plans to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock, seven months after backing a $1 billion funding round for the startup at a $5 billion valuation. World Labs, founded in 2024 by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, develops spatial intelligence models that generate interactive 3D environment...
Grokipedia AI encyclopedia resumes updates after pause
September 29, 2026: Grokipedia AI encyclopedia resumes updates after pause - Grokipedia, the AI-powered online encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, has resumed updating articles after a months-long pause. Lawfare reported in August that the platform had not reviewed edits since April. The platform's live updates site now shows recent changes to pages, though many current updates cons...
Equals Money limits AI agents to read-only payments data
September 29, 2026: Equals Money limits AI agents to read-only payments data - Equals Money has opened an MCP server to customers' AI tools but restricted it to read-only data access, blocking agents from initiating payments. Chief operations and product officer James Simcox said the company treats AI agents like human staff, requiring individual identities and auditable acces...
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