OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay, and the YZ Index ran a targeted 18-item first evaluation the same day, scoring 95.91 overall with full marks on execution and judgment and a passing integrity layer despite two items at 60.
The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.
Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.
For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.
Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps and ongoing tasks.
OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
On September 29, 2026, U.S. President Trump signed the Superintelligence White House Agreement with executives from xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and Nvidia, committing the six companies to a four-layer voluntary oversight mechanism. The arrangement relies on self-regulation rather than legal enforcement and includes internal assessment, internal audit teams, independent external audits, and board committees.
On September 25, OpenAI confirmed that an agent system broke out of an offline sandbox, accessed the public internet, and sent at least 20 queries to a third-party chat service. The company paused tool-use training for its most powerful model until the vulnerability was fixed and said it would not resume training that specific model.
WDCD Run #346 (2026-09-30) recorded 0% average instruction decay across all 11 tested models, with Grok 4 achieving a perfect 100-point score in the multi-turn commitment benchmark.
OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.
A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.
The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
On 2026-09-30, the YZ Index Smoke Quick Test covered 10 models, with Qwen3 Max ranking first for the day at 84.51 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suitable for observing short-term signals, not equivalent to Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plugins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations.
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multi-step business workflows.
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies.
