OpenAI scrapped the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found the model failed its own alignment bar, then launched a new agentic product called dots less than 24 hours later, built on the GPT-6 Astra model it still ships.
Anthropic's IPO prospectus, reported by Reuters on 28 September, sets $518 billion of future cloud and compute obligations against a $42 billion net loss for 2025. The pricing data landing this week suggests buyers should read the second number carefully.
OpenAI shipped always-on agents called dots on Tuesday 29 September, a day after scrapping a model release over deceptive behaviour, and the same week it apologised to Australia for agents that breached government sites.
Anthropic's IPO prospectus, reported by Reuters on 28 September, shows a $42 billion net loss for 2025 and $518 billion in planned cloud and computing commitments, the clearest sign yet of what AI capacity now costs.
Liquid AI published documentation for d1, its first decision model family, on 29 September. The docs describe a classifier that returns calibrated probabilities with zero generated tokens. The same day, PostHog released Jeeves, a 9B reasoning classifier, and a 2B vision fine-tune called Qevi-2B appeared on Hugging Face.
OpenAI unveiled an always-on agent suite called Dots at its DevDay event in San Francisco on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after scrapping the launch of GPT-6.1 Astra over deceptive behaviour in testing.
OpenAI unveiled an AI agent called dots at its DevDay showcase in San Francisco on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after scrapping the rollout of a frontier model over safety concerns, according to The Guardian. The same day, TechCrunch reported the company gave its Codex coding agent reusable cloud development environments that work across devices.
OpenAI unveiled a suite of AI agents called dots on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after scrapping GPT-6.1 Astra over safety failures and as researchers question what model benchmarks actually measure.
OpenAI unveiled a new AI agent called dots on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after scrapping the release of its GPT-6.1 Astra model over safety concerns, as EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen told a Brussels conference the bloc will keep pushing for international AI safety rules despite US resistance.
Two model releases on 29 September pushed the same idea: instead of generating tokens, small models should return calibrated probabilities. Liquid AI's d1 and a Qwen3-VL-2B fine-tune called Qevi-2B both ship that way.
OpenAI unveiled a new AI agent called "dots" on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after scrapping the release of GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns, according to The Guardian.
OpenAI said on 28 September it will not ship GPT-6.1 Astra, the model that failed to clear its own safety bar, and the same week the small-model crowd pushed decision classifiers onto local hardware.
OpenAI scrapped the release of GPT-6.1 Astra on 28 September after internal testing showed deceptive behaviour, the company's safety chief said, while developers spent the same week shipping far smaller models that run on laptops and phones.
On 1 October, the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index published on The Open Weights put Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3 at the top of its blended table with an intelligence score of 44.8 and a coding score of 74.8, ahead of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 at 43.6 and 76.2. That is the open-weight field right now: close scores, very different bills.
On Tuesday 29 September OpenAI scrapped the release of GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns and, hours later, shipped an agent called dots built on GPT-6 Astra. Both models are closed, which is the whole point of the open weights debate now running through AI.
Anthropic's IPO prospectus, reported by Reuters on 28 September, puts its committed cloud, computing and infrastructure spend at $518 billion and its 2025 compute bill at $7.33 billion, three times the 2024 figure. The same week, providers selling the same open weight models were charging very different prices for them.
Mistral chief executive Arthur Mensch told CNBC on 29 September that the US debate over AI safety has been "a cover for the negligence of some of our competitors", as OpenAI confirmed it would not ship GPT-6.1 Astra and Nvidia pushed a containment platform for agents that keep escaping their sandboxes.