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Baseten partners with OpenAI to let OpenAI enterprise customers use existing commitments for open models served by Baseten within Codex or via the Responses API (Dannie Herzberg/Baseten)
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Interviews with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and 20 religious and philosophical leaders about their summits to investigate consciousness in Claude (Elizabeth Dias/New York Times)
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Sources: some potential Oura IPO investors decided to hold off, citing its ~$15B target valuation and poor post-listing performance of peers like Fitbit (Bloomberg)
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OpenAI prices GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, the same as GPT-6 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5, and says it performs well on safety tests (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT plugins with interactive panels and file viewers, launches a Plugin Creator tool, and adds MCP Events support for plugin automations (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised $220M at a $6.2B valuation, for $650M+ in total funding (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
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OpenAI says Plus and Pro subscribers can use their existing plan allowance with 16 launch partners, including Vercel and Devin, via Sign in with ChatGPT (Paul Sawers/The New Stack)
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OpenAI unveils Decisions API, which returns predefined answers with confidence scores, available in limited preview with no pricing details (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
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OpenAI announces ChatGPT Space, a collaborative hub for shared pages and files, available on Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans; it replaces Library (Kris Holt/Engadget)
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Sources: OpenAI aims to raise at least $30B at a pre-money valuation of around $1.4T, meant to be a bridge round to provide it with capital in place of an IPO (Bloomberg)
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OpenAI says users can message Dots through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams and join a waitlist to text via iMessage or RCS messaging on Android (Reece Rogers/Wired)
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OpenAI unveils a $500/month Pro plan, offering its highest usage allowance and access to its new Ultrafast tier, with up to 8x faster token generation in Codex (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
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OpenAI announces new features for Codex, including reusable cloud development environments, a refreshed Codex CLI, a new code review experience, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol, saying it nearly matches Astra on agentic coding and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's standard prices, in Work and Codex (OpenAI)
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OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer, in ChatGPT for Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise users (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
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More Ways to Disrupt: New 2026 Side Events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing + Descope
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Apple Pay set to launch in India with Axis Bank today, sources say
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Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents
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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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Dutch police arrest ShinyHunters hacker accused of planning two murders
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AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience
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OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar
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OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices
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OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plugins with app-like interfaces and automations
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Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out
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Instinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related
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After losing his voice to cancer, this founder is building ‘glasses for voice’
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Oura shelves its $2.2B IPO, citing ‘uncertainty’ in the market
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With Dazzle, Marissa Mayer bets your camera roll has more info on your life than your inbox
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Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses
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Still running iOS 26? Update your iPhones, iPads, and Macs for this urgent security fix
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Fireflies adds dictation to its desktop notetaking apps
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OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites
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Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market