Introducing dots
OpenAI has launched Dots, an assistant positioned to proactively and continuously work on complex projects and everyday tasks. Officially, Dots helps users stay in control while work progresses.
OpenAI has launched Dots, an assistant positioned to proactively and continuously work on complex projects and everyday tasks. Officially, Dots helps users stay in control while work progresses.
llm-anthropic 0.30 is out. Beyond supporting Claude Sonnet 5.5, it adds an `llm anthropic refresh` command that pulls the model list directly from the Anthropic API, so new models are supported without releasing a new version. It also adds an `llm anthropic count` command that uses the free token counting API to count a prompt's tokens before sending it.
Hugging Face announced that the Hub now supports RL Environments, which exist as dataset repositories tagged with rl-environment, with no new repository type, registry, or registration process.
OpenAI is collecting real stories from developers, researchers, and creators who use Codex, searching for the next cohort of the Codex Originals program. Users can submit their stories and projects; selected participants will showcase creative work built with Codex.
In Basis's testing, GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook 2x faster than GPT-5.6 Sol. Its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.
Lowe’s uses OpenAI models to power Mylow and Mylow Companion, which have answered over 25 million questions. The tools help customers and employees move home improvement projects forward.
Simon Willison released commit-rewriter 0.2 on September 24, 2026. The original post is a short beat, related to git, with no further feature details provided.
Google DeepMind has launched Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, combining near-real-time video generation with speech to give Gemini's conversational AI a dynamic visual presence, with accurate lip sync, natural expressions and smooth turn-taking.
Liquid AI has released experimental DSpark draft models for the vision-language model LFM2.5-VL-3B, using speculative decoding to trade for faster inference without changing output quality — decoding speeds up to 3.13x on-device and 2.66x on H100, with end-to-end gains up to 2.62x and 2.27x respectively.
Why it matters: The article details a speculative decoding acceleration scheme for vision-language models with concrete speedups and memory overhead, plus integration guidance for llama.cpp, MLX-VLM, and SGLang.
Remedy Entertainment’s CONTROL Resonant launched day one on GeForce NOW, letting players wield Dylan Faden’s paranormal abilities in the cloud against the Hiss and other threats. Ultimate members get RTX 5080-class performance, DLSS 4, ray tracing, and streaming up to 5K HDR, with no 100GB local install needed.
Perplexity launched a portable agentic PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max series processors. The page's body consists mainly of terms and conditions for downloading AMD brand assets, with no further technical details about the product.
Google today released two Gemini text-to-speech models, gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts, offering over 2,000 voices and support for creating custom voices from a 30-second audio sample.
Google's Private AI Compute team announced adding private server-side persistent memory to the platform, giving AI assistants long-term memory across devices while maintaining privacy standards at the level of on-device processing.
OpenAI Academy marks its second anniversary. OpenAI says it will continue bringing AI skills to more communities.
On September 23, Google DeepMind released two text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, which support customizing character voices via natural-language prompts in over 100 languages, cloning voices from 30-second audio samples, directing delivery and dialect changes line by line, and natively generating two-speaker scenarios.
Why it matters: The official announcement details both TTS models' capabilities, benchmark results, and availability, so readers can judge how voice creation workflows will change.
invideo uses GPT-6 Astra to boost video editing: more precise edit planning, 3x faster color correction and grading, and up to 50 custom effects produced in a day.
Ringg uses GPT-5.6 to build multilingual AI agents supporting voice, chat, WhatsApp and web channels, resolving up to 65% of customer calls. Compared with GPT-4.1, costs are 90% lower.
Legal tech company Harvey is using GPT-6 Astra to produce more structured, contextually attuned legal documents. The model frees lawyers from document drafting so they can focus on legal strategy.
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT Ads to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, allowing eligible advertisers to reach users across more than 60 countries and regions.
OpenAI described improvements to GPT-6 prompt caching, including higher cache hit rates, new diagnostic tools, explicit breakpoints, and related control options, all aimed at reducing latency and cost.
Simon Willison released version 0.36 of the open-source CLI tool llm on September 22. The original post contains only the release announcement and does not describe specific updates.
Simon Willison released llm-anthropic 0.29 on September 22, 2026. The original post provides no further version details or feature notes.
Simon Willison released llm-typesafe 0.1a0, an LLM plugin supporting TypeSafe AI's newly launched Jev model. It can be installed with `llm install llm-typesafe` and used by setting a typesafe API key.
At ROSCon in Toronto, Canada, NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0, a suite of GPU-accelerated open source packages built on ROS, adding agentic workflows to help developers and AI agents collaborate on building robotics applications.
OpenAI's GPT‑6 Astra helps Parallel's agents research and synthesize labor market data, cutting both time and cost in half compared with previous models.
Hugging Face has announced that transformers can load GGUF models — passing a gguf_file to from_pretrained lets you run quantized checkpoints from the Hub on your local machine.
Why it matters: Hugging Face provides official usage of GGUF in transformers plus benchmarks against llama.cpp, helping readers pick a viable local inference path.
Cloudflare announced that Python Workers are now generally available, making Python a first-class supported language on the Cloudflare Developer Platform after two years in preview.
NVIDIA explains that deploying Physical AI (autonomous vehicles, humanoids, and industrial robots) at scale requires a safety framework spanning hardware, software, AI behavior, and operating environments. ABI Research projects 49 million L3-L5 autonomous vehicles by 2035, and Omdia estimates about 60 million industrial robots will be deployed from 2026 to 2035.
OpenAI expanded OpenAI Academy with new learning paths for employees, developers, managers, educators and students. Learners can use these paths to build and demonstrate practical AI skills.
Anthropic launched Projects in Claude Code, letting a single conversation spin up parallel cloud threads that keep running after the user leaves; Google updated its Gemini managed agents with a new Credentials API and Files API, claiming 30% lower costs and 22% more cache hits.
Google Research launched a new research experiment where teachers can use generative UI (GenUI) to dynamically generate customized, guided interactive learning simulations based on their teaching goals and curriculum. Built on active learning principles from the LearnLM education model family, the release includes over 30 AI-generated, teacher-reviewed English STEM learning interactives covering physics, chemistry, biology and math for middle and high school.
Pawprint Studio's free-to-play open-world creature-catching RPG Aniimo launched on GeForce NOW at release, letting players stream it across devices without waiting for a 45GB download.
Law firm Cooley built GO Public on ChatGPT Work, bringing AI capabilities into the IPO process. The tool helps lawyers surface issues earlier and focus expert judgment where it matters most.
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, built for the legal industry. It offers frontier intelligence, customized law firm workflows, connectable legal data sources, and high-grade security controls for confidential client work.
OpenAI is launching AI-powered advertising experiences, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.
Hex's data agent, powered by GPT-6 Astra, turns analysis results into interactive visual reports that employees love to share, presenting complex analysis in visual form.
Mistral announced a partnership with Mozilla: the Firefox Smart Window (beta) AI browsing assistant is now powered by Mistral models, serving users in France and North America, with the UK and Germany expected to follow later this year. The feature helps users understand complex searches, recover important content clicked away, and organize information based on browser tabs. Conversations are not stored on Mozilla servers by default, and Mistral pledges zero data retention.
ChatGPT Work and Codex analytics features help teams understand AI usage and spending, identify training needs, and link AI adoption to business outcomes. With these analytics tools, companies can more clearly measure the actual business value of their AI investments.
The University of Manchester, working with the NVIDIA Earth-2 team, repurposed the Earth-2 CorrDiff generative downscaling model for air pollution forecasting and added Earth-2 StormCast, which can directly leverage air quality observations.
Fyxer built its AI executive assistant on OpenAI models, combining fine-tuning, memory, and real user feedback. It organizes inboxes and drafts emails in each user's own voice, which has earned user trust.