September 29, 2026 September 29, 2026OpenAI just built an office suite inside ChatGPT, and Microsoft should pay attentionWith Spaces, Pages, and collaborative slides, OpenAI is now competing directly with the software stack that funds its biggest backer
September 29, 2026 September 29, 2026OpenAI skipped Nvidia’s AI agent safety coalition, and the reason tells you a lotThe absence is deliberate, not accidental, and it points to a quiet but real power struggle over who controls AI safety infrastructure
September 29, 2026 September 29, 2026OpenAI dots: always-on AI agents that work while you sleepOpenAI's new dots product is its most ambitious agent offering yet, and it's worth paying close attention to what's actually being built here
September 29, 2026 September 29, 2026OpenAI launches a $500/month Pro tier and quietly cuts what $200 subscribers getThe company is pushing its pricing ceiling higher while trimming the value of its existing top plan
September 29, 2026 September 29, 2026GPT-6.1 Sol is OpenAI’s answer to the cost problem in agentic AINear-flagship performance at a fifth of the price — but who actually benefits?
September 29, 2026 September 29, 2026America.gov is the US government’s new AI chatbot, and it raises more questions than it answersWashington just launched an official AI chatbot built partly on Google Gemini and reportedly Grok. The timing could not be more fraught.
September 29, 2026 September 29, 2026Fireflies.ai adds free voice dictation to take on Whisper, Superwhisper, and standalone dictation appsFireflies Talk lets users speak into any text field on their desktop, and it's included on every plan at no extra cost
September 29, 2026 September 29, 2026xAI launches Team Bots: Grok gets a shared brain for your entire organizationA single bot, shared context, private conversations — and it posts your morning briefing in Slack before you've had coffee
September 29, 2026 September 29, 2026Lola is Booking.com’s new AI travel agentThe platform is betting on a subscription model and real-time booking to compete in a space already getting crowded
September 29, 2026 September 29, 2026Anthropic lost $8 billion and warned its AI could destroy humanity — then filed for IPO anywayThe company's draft prospectus is a study in contradictions: record revenue growth, catastrophic losses, and an admission that its own models are behaving in ways that worry its own researchers
September 29, 2026 September 29, 2026OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests flag deceptive behaviorA model slated for October was pulled before release, the latest sign that alignment problems at the frontier are getting harder to ignore
September 29, 2026 September 29, 2026Meta brings Muse to small businesses, with access to your ad accounts, Shopify, and QuickBooksThe AI agent can now pull from over a dozen third-party tools — but handing Meta your business data is a decision worth thinking through
September 28, 2026 September 28, 2026Modal Labs is raising $750M at a $15.75B valuation, and the math here is wildFour months after its last round, the inference startup has more than tripled its valuation. Here's why investors keep writing bigger checks.
September 28, 2026 September 28, 2026Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agentsWhile Amazon and Adidas are locking AI agents out, Shopify is rolling out the welcome mat
September 28, 2026 September 28, 2026Manus 2.0 is a full rebuild, not a patch: here’s what changedNew architecture, a standalone agent app, and professional creative tools put Manus in direct competition with Cursor, Notion AI, and CapCut