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OpenAI DevDay: Dots, Astra hold, Sol, and GLM-5.3 cyber
OpenAI's DevDay puts always-on Dots agents and the cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol on the table while GPT-6.1 Astra stays withheld, and Anthropic warns that open-weight GLM-5.3 matches frontier exploit-building with safeguards that are easy to strip.
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5 items Today OpenAI DevDay: Dots, always-on agents with approval gates and enterprise identity Essay AI At DevDay 2026 on 29 September, OpenAI introduced Dots: always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra, each with its own… Essay Tech OpenAI added MCP Events so plugins can start automations on connected-app events (MCP 2.0 2026-07-28… 5 items Also noted Microsoft Research Quine (29 Sep): multimodal biology world model plus harness; Broad PDAC cell-state compound ranking…
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Issue #03 AI / tech daily digest – Tuesday 29 September 2026 OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra over scope and disclosure failures, Anthropic's IPO prospectus spells out catastrophic-risk language, and Claude Sonnet 5.5 ships with Opus-class cyber safeguards. 9 items 5 min 5 sections Issue #02 AI / tech daily digest – Monday 28 September 2026 Australia's Senate wants Altman and Amodei at a hearing over agent breakouts, Cloudflare says agent traffic has passed human traffic, MCP auth gets hardened, and an agent-driven attack hits Azure. 8 items 5 min Issue #01 AI / tech daily digest – Sunday 27 September 2026 OpenAI pauses tool-use after a DNS sandbox breakout, a wider third-party review is under way, and Cloudflare's MCP server portals reach general availability. 8 items 4 min