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OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite

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OpenAI has been a close partner of Microsoft from the jump, but the AI lab is increasingly going after the company’s bread and butter, workplace software, with new features that closely resemble an office software suite like Microsoft’s. At its Dev Day developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI announced several new ChatGPT features designed for office workers. Most notably, OpenAI launched a feature called Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT where coworkers can collaborate with the chatbot and with their own Dots, OpenAI’s newly launched AI agent personas…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:45 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay

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Data centers, ICE contracts, and more were under fire at a rally around the event. Data centers, ICE contracts, and more were under fire at a rally around the event. On Tuesday, OpenAI’s annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. “Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit,” said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spelled out “PEOPLE OVER PROFIT.” More than a dozen organizations came together to sponsor a rally outside the entrance to the event…

The Verge AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience

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Wabi, the AI startup that allowed anyone to use prompts to build apps, is undergoing a slight pivot as demand for AI agents, like Meta’s Muse and Instinct, takes off. The company announced this week that Wabi is now becoming an AI messenger of sorts — but one that’s still capable of making apps to help you get things done. The startup’s founder Eugenia Kuyda, who previously founded the AI companion startup Replika, described Wabi 2.0, as the new experience is called, as a “personal agent that does stuff for…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:20 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar

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At OpenAI’s Dev Day event on Tuesday, the company announced the launch of Dots, a new personal agentic assistant powered by GPT-6 Astra. The company describes Dots as “remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything.” Unlike Codex or ChatGPT, Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight. “Today, you can start with your primary dot, give it a name, and make it your own,” OpenAI said in an announcement post. “Over time, we envision teams…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:17 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices

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OpenAI introduced new capabilities for its software engineering agent Codex, making it more useful beyond a developer’s laptop with reusable cloud development environments that can be accessed from any device. The update, announced at OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday, is one of several for Codex. OpenAI also announced a refreshed Codex CLI, a new code review experience, tools to harden infrastructure, and other API enhancements. While Codex could already spin up cloud tasks to do work remotely, today’s announcement shows that OpenAI is making those cloud environments more persistent and…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:15 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less

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At OpenAI’s DevDay event on Tuesday, the company showed off GPT-6.1 Sol, a mere week after it launched GPT-6 Sol. OpenAI says the new model delivers nearly the same level of intelligence as GPT-6 Astra for agentic coding, computer use, and professional work, at one-fifth the standard input and output token prices. Notably, the company is not launching GPT-6.1 Astra, as was originally expected. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that OpenAI scrapped the release over safety concerns raised by researchers during internal testing after the model showed higher…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:15 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plugins with app-like interfaces and automations

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OpenAI isn’t only coming after productivity software with ChatGPT’s new Pages, Slides and Space features — the AI lab is now targeting any application that could work better when integrated with ChatGPT. At the company’s Dev Day presentation on Tuesday, the AI company said it is now allowing developers to build their own app-like experiences within ChatGPT using plugin extensions. OpenAI already supports plugins, which connect ChatGPT to everyday tools like Slack, SharePoint, Airtable and Google Drive, but the new plugin extensions will give apps a dedicated home in the…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:15 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse

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Dots are OpenAIâs new always-on AI agents, announced at the companyâs DevDay 2026 event on Tuesday in San Francisco. These agents complete tasks on a userâs behalf and are depicted as cute blobs you can personalize and assign multi-step projects to complete. OpenAIâs Dots are powered by the startupâs GPT-6 Astra model. A core selling point is their âalways-onâ designâunlike a single-turn chatbot experience, these agents constantly crawl the web and attempt to complete whatever task you assign to them. Dots also pull context from connected apps and learn more…

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How to Turn Excel Data Into PowerPoint Presentations With AI

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Learn how to use Julius AI to analyze Excel data, verify key findings, and turn them into an editable PowerPoint presentation.

KDnuggets · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out

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President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the White House is launching America.gov, an AI chatbot intended to help people find government services and other information. Google confirmed that it is a partner on this launch and that its AI model, Gemini, is involved, but it’s unclear if other AI companies also contributed. “Instead of forcing citizens to search through the endless maze of tens of thousands of government websites and rules… you’ll now have one front door for every single question,” Trump said in a post on X. Making…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 18:55 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Prompt engineering fundamentals for Amazon Quick

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Prompt engineering in Amazon Quick determines how accurately and reliably the platform’s AI-powered features respond to your natural-language requests. Whether you’re building custom agents, authoring automation flows, or querying data through conversational analytics, the way you structure your prompts directly shapes the quality of the output you receive. In this post, you will learn the foundational principles and structured frameworks that produce consistent, high-quality results across the AI capabilities in Amazon Quick. This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Here we focus on universal principles and reusable frameworks that…

AWS AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 18:27 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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OpenAI DevDay 2026: The biggest news and announcements

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It’s OpenAI’s turn in the fall tech events calendar. The company is hosting its annual DevDay on September 29th in San Francisco, starting with a live keynote featuring CEO Sam Altman. The company is teasing “20+ launches” with Altman saying that “we have found a new thing,“, and rumors suggest it could launch a consumer AI agent to rival Meta’s Muse. The keynote begins at 1PM ET / 10AM ET, and you can watch it on OpenAI’s website or on YouTube. DevDay is happening at a tumultuous moment for OpenAI.…

The Verge AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 18:27 CESTRead story →Join free ↗