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🤖 OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor
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- OpenAI has launched Dots at its Dev Day event, a personal always-on assistant running on GPT-6 Astra, positioned as its answer to Meta's recently released Muse agent.
- Unlike Codex or ChatGPT, Dots work independently of any device or interface, chasing user-set goals in the background, and are available now to Pro and Business Premium users through ChatGPT in eligible markets.
- People can message Dots through Slack, Teams and similar platforms, with text support coming soon, and OpenAI is working with Microsoft to fold them into its Agent 365 security controls.
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🏠 Apple smart home hub may launch soon
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- Apple's smart home hub, nicknamed the HomePad, is expected to arrive on October 13, according to a Bloomberg report that pins down a date after earlier saying only that it would come "as soon as October."
- The device will reportedly have a 6-inch screen and borrow the look of the iMac G4, with its rounded base and floating display, and come in two forms: one for tabletops and one meant to mount on a wall.
- A built-in speaker will let the hub work as a HomePod and smart home panel, running a new operating system that mixes parts of iOS, tvOS, and watchOS, all centered on Siri AI.
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🤝 Trump releases a voluntary AI accord with tech leaders
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- Donald Trump has put out a one-page voluntary agreement with six big tech companies laying out safeguards for advanced AI systems, calling for outside audits, board oversight and internal monitoring without creating any legal duties.
- Signed by Trump plus the heads of Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia, the accord asks firms to bring in independent auditors and watch models during training for cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical threats.
- The document, which Trump called "morally binding," sets no enforcement body or penalties but suggests the measures could later become law, and the companies agreed to meet regularly to build shared safety standards.
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💸 Robinhood launches AI trading agents
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- Robinhood is adding AI trading agents to its app, letting customers build strategies and have the software research markets and place buy and sell orders on their behalf around the clock, within limits they set.
- Users name their agent, open a separate account for it, and pick an AI model from labs including OpenAI, whose GPT-Luna will be free through year's end; a coming feature called Loops repeats a strategy day and night.
- The move follows Robinhood's May launch that let people connect their own agents, which drew over 150,000 accounts; by default customers must approve each trade, an agent can only touch money in its own account, and both settings can be switched off.
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🇨🇳 DeepSeek, Huawei team on AI chip software
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- DeepSeek has partnered with Huawei to build open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, aiming to give China's homegrown hardware the software it needs to run advanced models well.
- The release centers on TileLang, an open-source programming language first made by Peking University researchers, which DeepSeek says is simpler to work with than Nvidia's CUDA while still pulling full performance from the chips.
- The tools include libraries for computation and for moving data between chips, and the two companies also tuned a "supernode" cluster of 128 Ascend 950 chips, with Huawei fully backing the effort.
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💰 GPT-6.1 Sol nears Astra performance
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- OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Sol, a midrange model that costs one-fifth as much as its top model GPT-6 Astra while coming close to Astra's performance, unveiled Tuesday at the company's developer conference.
- The release came a day after OpenAI dropped a planned GPT-6.1 Astra, saying the model too often ignored instructions, part of a wider push into safety after a run of security lapses with its agents.
- GPT-6.1 Sol arrives amid a price war with Anthropic, which passed OpenAI in second-quarter revenue at $11.6 billion versus $6.7 billion, as OpenAI's operating loss widened to $12.3 billion.
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