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[AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU

In any case, you have any number of recaps coming at you today, and we’ll be shipping our DevDay pod soon, so you can either watch the full 1 hour livestream or this 15 minute supercut:

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Key points

  • OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Ultrafast and Platform Changes
  • Dots (always-on agents): OpenAI’s headline launch is dots.
  • Companion launches include ChatGPT Space and Pages, shared human/agent workspaces.
  • In this video, I break down a lot of what was announced at the OpenAI DevDay on September 29.

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Independently evaluated2 independent looks since

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  2. Evaluation · Oct 2, 2026openqodex/openqodex: Open source AI code review for Claude Code and Codex, before you push. Scanners (SAST, secrets, dependencies, lint) on the lines you changed
  3. Follow-up · Sep 30, 2026Claude’s new auto eval tool
  4. Follow-up · Sep 30, 2026Helping small businesses put AI to work
  5. Follow-up · Sep 30, 2026Last Week in AI #345 - 5 new models, 9 misalignment incidents, some Dots
  6. Follow-up · Sep 30, 2026justxor/claude-code-pro-course: Claude Code PRO — полный курс и гайд на русском: CLAUDE.md, settings, skills, subagents, hooks, MCP, плагины, CI. 8 лабораторных, библиотека

Before this

  1. Sep 29, 2026Astra 6.1 Pulled As Insufficiently Aligned
  2. Sep 29, 2026Sonnet 5.5 is worth a try
  3. Sep 29, 2026[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more
  4. Sep 29, 2026[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
  5. Sep 28, 2026Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents
  6. Sep 23, 2026Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator

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