29 September 2026

OpenAI unveils dots at DevDay, agents that work around the clock on their own cloud computer

On September 29, at its DevDay conference in San Francisco, OpenAI presented more than 20 new features, including dots - ChatGPT agents built on GPT-6 Astra that have their own computer and browser in the cloud, connect to more than 4,000 apps and work for the user around the clock. Dots are rolling out first to Pro and Business Premium subscribers. The company also released GPT-6.1 Sol, a model that according to OpenAI nearly matches GPT-6 Astra in coding and computer use at one fifth of the price.

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SpaceX strikes deal to buy 800 MHz spectrum licenses and wants to become a major US mobile carrier

SpaceX announced a deal to buy nationwide 800 MHz spectrum licenses (up to 14 MHz of paired spectrum). This band is meant to let the Starlink Mobile network reach inside buildings. Once the FCC approves, the company wants to combine satellites that connect directly to phones with a terrestrial network and compete with T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon. The same week, the FCC approved the Gen2 constellation: 15,000 V2 Starlink Mobile satellites, which according to SpaceX will provide more than 100 times the capacity of the current generation.

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GPT-6 comes to ChatGPT with an "intelligent interface" - answers with charts, buttons and tools

OpenAI brought GPT-6 to regular ChatGPT chat along with Intelligent UI: the model decides on its own whether to answer with text or with a diagram, chart, form or interactive tool, such as a savings calculator or a bill-splitting tool. GPT-6 interleaves reasoning with answering, and for questions that require a web search, GPT-6 Instant starts answering 44 percent faster on average than GPT-5.6 Instant. Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users get GPT-6 Sol starting October 7, and Free and Go users get the lighter GPT-6 Luna starting October 8; the models in ChatGPT Work and Codex are unchanged.

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ElevenLabs releases Eleven v4 speech model - more than 90 languages and voice cloning from 10 seconds of audio

ElevenLabs released Eleven v4, a new text-to-speech model, along with a faster v4 Turbo variant for voice agents, whose time to first audio is about 150 milliseconds (median), according to the company. Both models support more than 90 languages, up from 70 in the previous version, and 10 seconds of audio is enough to clone a voice. The models are already available in ElevenLabs services and via the API.

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