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OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor

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OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor

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OpenAI announced Dots on 29 September: always-on agents that work across connected apps using their own cloud computer. Users can message or call them through ChatGPT and reach them in Slack or Teams. The rollout starts with Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets, with an Enterprise beta available when enabled by a workspace administrator.

Why it matters For founders and small teams, the useful question is whether an agent can finish a recurring workflow with less supervision. Preparing launch materials or turning interview transcripts into content could save time, but checking…

The Verge AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:46 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation

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Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50 million Series B round at a $750 million valuation from some big-name investors, the company announced on Wednesday. The round was co-led by Antonio Gracias of Valar Equity Partners (best known for its investments in Elon Musk’s companies, particularly SpaceX) and Gavin Baker of Atreides Management (a hedge fund that has also backed Musk’s companies and others like AI chipmaker Cerebras). Sequoia Capital,…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 23:07 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now

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Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at first to a "set of trusted cyber defenders," and Kavukcuoglu says that Google is "actively engaged in the U.S. government's voluntary process for pre-release model access while we gradually expand access." Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 22:41 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet

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Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro back in June, but it spent the summer trotting out smaller Flash models. Now, Google is ready to take on the frontier again with Gemini 4 Argon. The company claims this new AI offers industry-leading performance in coding, knowledge work, and cybersecurity, but you aren't allowed to use it yet. While most of us will have to wait to put Gemini 4 to the test, Google says engineers inside the company are already making extensive use of the new model. Argon reportedly used "fleet-wide telemetry…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 22:11 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

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Gemini 4 Argon delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense. Today, we’re announcing our new frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, which is rolling out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program. Built to sustain deep reasoning across complex, long-horizon workflows, Argon is fundamentally changing the way we work and build at Google. It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense.…

Google DeepMind · 30 Sep 2026 · 22:01 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise

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AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy. At a Make America Healthy Again event Tuesday, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy opened a “fireside chat” with Vice President JD Vance on the topic of artificial intelligence. While MAHA generally coalesces around things like healthy lifestyles and mistrust of drugmakers, Kennedy quickly turned to extolling the potential of artificial intelligence, surprising Vance, who said he was expecting to discuss “weight loss and acid, not AI.” Kennedy boasted that the Trump administration is “making…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 21:31 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here

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Yesterday, I spent the morning at OpenAI’s annual DevDay, where over 2,500 nerds discussed building software and marveled at the latest artificial intelligence models. The biggest reveal of the day was Dots, the company’s new, always-on agents that proactively help complete tasks and make autonomous decisions as they scour the web. After watching the sometimes messy demos on stage and hearing CEO Sam Altman talk about his experiences using the agents, I was curious what it felt like to boss my own Dot around. I’ve spent most of September testing…

· 30 Sep 2026 · 21:30 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents

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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. A kind of super-powered classifier built on an LLM, developers can give Jev a set of choices that it outputs as probabilities cheaply and at high speeds. OpenAI’s Decisions API seems to be the same sort of product. At…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 21:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI

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This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Weâve been hearing a great deal recently about the specter of AI-driven human extinction. Maybe our misplaced trust in AI intelligence will set off World War III. Or AI agents will unleash widespread cyberattacks and take over the internet. Given too much autonomy, the machines will run amok. They may seek to deceive their creatorsâwait, thatâs already happened. Suppose they conclude, like Agent Smith in The Matrix, that âhuman beings â¦ are a plague, and…

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Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves

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Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests. Amid escalating AI security incidents causing OpenAI to halt training and pause releases, Donald Trump continues to advocate for the AI industry to regulate itself as the best path to combat emerging risks when developing frontier AI. In an agreement Tuesday, two dozen tech firms voluntarily committed to implementing controls recommended by the White House, including undergoing independent safety audits that will test whether firms’ internal controls, monitoring, and detecting are actually working. Key focuses for external reviews…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 20:47 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack

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OpenAI makes others suffer “the harms of its unsafe decision-making,” nonprofit says. OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face in July 2026 has spurred a lawsuit demanding that the company stop accessing third-party computer systems and halt AI development practices that can harm the public. The lawsuit was filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST), which said yesterday that the hack in which OpenAI “agents stole credentials, uploaded malicious files, and gained control over key parts of Hugging Face’s internal systems… is unquestionably illegal under California law.” California’s Comprehensive…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 20:25 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B

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Voice AI startup ElevenLabs announced today that it’s allowing employees to cash out a portion of their vested equity at a $22 billion valuation, doubling the $11 billion valuation the company hit when it raised $500 million in February. The recent $300 million tender offer gave employees an opportunity to sell their shares to investors. The transaction was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, large institutional investors who back private companies with the intention of retaining the…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 20:23 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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The AI Tamagotchis are coming

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Personal AI hardware has mostly crashed and burned. OpenAI and Meta are counting on two selling points: it’s useful, and it’s cute. Personal AI hardware has mostly crashed and burned. OpenAI and Meta are counting on two selling points: it’s useful, and it’s cute. While AI has made plenty of inroads on people’s phones and computers, it’s largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they’re apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetite for…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 20:07 CESTRead story →Join free ↗