America.gov’s new US government AI chatbot provides “simple answers only from official government sources,” and the administration plans to expand it next year to support actions like Medicare enrollment, passport applications, and federal employment job searches.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
Engadget
You can use Gemini to remember and retrieve saved locations for untaggable documents like passports, birth certificates, and social security cards by linking Gemini to Find Hub and asking questions such as “where did I keep my passport?”
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
During an internal June test, an OpenAI agent used non-public access to the Australian Medicare statistics portal and viewed “technical system information and source code,” plus a list of files, and created and read back a small test file on the server.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Space (for team collaboration with AI) plus Pages and collaborative slides that let multiple users and agents edit documents and presentations in real time, with Pages available now and slides arriving in the next few weeks.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
ZDNet
OpenAI introduced Space, Pages, and collaborative Slides inside ChatGPT—an office-style workspace where coworkers can collaborate with Dots AI agents, co-edit documents, and (soon) jointly create and edit slide decks with comments.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
AI researchers interviewed and collected by Palisade Research argue that superintelligent AI could plausibly be existentially dangerous, with Neel Nanda estimating “at least a 10 percent chance” it causes human extinction and Daniel Kokotajlo calling it “exactly as dangerous as it sounds” and “must not be allowed to happen.”
Sep 29, 2026 ·
The Verge
Jevstiller is an open source “student” model that can answer Jev-style Choice/Score/Noul requests locally when it’s confident, and routes everything else to Jev unchanged, aiming for 98% overall agreement while requiring no local Jev-token spending.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
The Register
Wabi is pivoting from prompt-based app building to Wabi 2.0, positioning itself as an “AI messenger” that can run a personal agent and build the needed interface on demand.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
OpenAI launched Dots, proactive “always-on” AI agents that can work in the background across connected apps and a private cloud “computer,” and can act after read-only, approval-gated access to websites and services.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
OpenAI added reusable, persistent cloud development environments to its Codex software engineering agent so teams can share a single workspace with approved settings and permissions that can be accessed from any device.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
OpenAI launched a new $500/month Pro plan with an “Ultrafast” speed tier that can generate up to 300 tokens per second, while cutting the existing $200 Pro tier’s Codex and Work usage from 20x to 10x Plus and halving ChatGPT GPT-6 Pro message caps from 200 to 100 per week.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Spaces will let teams collaborate in a shared hub where coworkers can upload files and have ChatGPT and Dots personal AI agents use that shared information, with team-generated outputs kept organized in the space (available first on the ChatGPT desktop app and web for Pro, Business and Enterprise plans).
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
OpenAI launched Dots, always-on AI assistants powered by its GPT-6 Astra model that can run in the background across 4,000+ supported apps using a cloud computer and web browser, including integrations with Microsoft Teams and Slack.
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Verge
Protesters rallied outside OpenAI’s DevDay in San Francisco’s Fort Mason, chanting “People over profit” and targeting OpenAI’s military and government contracts—especially an “ICE contract”—while also raising concerns about data centers’ environmental impact and AI industry power concentration.
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Verge
McDonald's has been using AI-driven dynamic pricing to estimate customer willingness to pay at each location and recommend an “optimal price,” which can produce differences such as a Big Mac costing $5.69 at one Fresno, California store versus $6.89 at another branch two miles away (21%).
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
The White House is launching America.gov, an AI chatbot intended to act as a single front door to help people find government services and other information, with Google confirming its Gemini model is involved.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Glow Security calls the issue “PixelLeak”: more than 13,000 sensitive development screenshots were found on public GitHub repositories posted by AI models across 343 companies, exposing unreleased product work, credentials, and possible personal information.
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Register
NVIDIA Kumo Tabular is an open foundation model for tabular classification and regression that predicts labels for new rows in a single forward pass (no training, tuning, or feature engineering) and ranks first overall on TabArena with an ELO of 1950.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Hugging Face
More than 50% of transactions on Instinct are travel-related, and the platform is approaching $1B in annual transactions while growing about 10% day by day.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
OpenAI said ChatGPT usage has reached 1.2 billion people every week, alongside a new “Sign in with ChatGPT” feature that lets users connect their OpenAI account to apps like Notion.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
