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- RuntimeWire is now on iPhone and iPad.
RuntimeWire product news: our free app is available on iPhone and iPad.
- Reddit will restrict Old Reddit to users active within six months
The coming rule exempts logged-in moderators and follows July's login gate as Reddit tightens access to curb scraping.
- Inworld acquires Ultravox to add a voice-agent platform to its speech stack
Ultravox co-founder Zach Koch says the team will keep developing the product; built-in Inworld voices have already moved to Realtime TTS-2 at no extra cost.
- Google gives Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders before public release
Sundar Pichai says the model is already in internal use and will reach developers, enterprises and consumers after a controlled security rollout.
- FTC widens probe into Anthropic and OpenAI over AI agent safety
The agency plans to demand information and seek executive testimony as Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei's safety-focused mission meets scrutiny over autonomous systems.
- Startup Spotlight: Roark turns failed voice calls into regression tests
James Zammit and Daniel Gauci Mizzi built a QA layer for voice agents; YC says Roark processed more than 10 million call minutes in a six-month period.
- TechCrunch's America.gov Minecraft report omits RuntimeWire's earlier scoop
TechCrunch published its account after RuntimeWire's report, without crediting the outlet or explaining how it found the poem. The record supports scrutiny of that omission, but does not establish copying.
- Galileo Space launches an orbital-intelligence venture to fuse radio and optical data
CEO Kazi Farabi says the system is aimed at defense users; the company's stated first satellite launch window is late 2027 or early 2028.
- OpenClaw makes its agent control plane free for enterprise deployment
The self-hosted platform is available for internal pilots, with Red Hat and NVIDIA helping develop it after OpenAI donated the project to the OpenClaw Foundation.
- The best free AI models you can use right now
OpenAI's Sol pricing changes put AI costs back in focus. These six options let you start without a subscription, with different limits on chat, coding and API access.
- OpenAI adds a shared ChatGPT workspace and an AI meeting note-taker
ChatGPT Space lets teams build interactive pages with AI; a Meetings feature saves personalized summaries and next steps in the workspace.
- Inception launches Mercury Voice for faster AI phone agents
The diffusion model posts a company-reported 320-millisecond median time to first answer token; enterprise customers can access it at launch pricing of $0.20 per million input tokens.
- Baseten puts Carbon agent sandboxes into preview with NVIDIA OpenShell
The fourth-generation Blaxel runtime adds microVM isolation, dedicated IPv6 addresses, snapshots and forks; access is rolling out in a private preview.
- America.gov chatbot story retracted after screenshot was admitted to be a joke
The screenshot did not establish which model powers the federal site's chatbot.
- Quartermaster AI raises ~$170M in equity sales across two offerings, SEC filings spill the beans
The filings record $122.6M sold in September and $48.6M in April, while recent reporting put its Series B at $140M including debt.
- Everything OpenAI announced at the DevDay 2026 keynote
OpenAI introduced dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, new agent APIs and a $500 Pro subscription, while opening more of ChatGPT to developers and their businesses.
- OpenAI launches 'Login with ChatGPT' and routes plan usage into third-party AI apps
Plus and Pro users can authorize eligible requests in tools including Notion, Vercel and Devin, with per-app caps drawing from their shared weekly allowance.
- OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents that work across connected apps
The agents run on cloud computers, connect to more than 4,000 apps by OpenAI's count and are rolling out to paid ChatGPT users.
- OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth Astra's token price
Sam Altman says the model pairs near-flagship performance with cheaper cached inputs; OpenAI's own tests show gains in coding, computer use and business workflows.
- OpenAI says its agents have reached the research-intern milestone
A September 29th DevDay slide repeated a claim OpenAI had published on September 6th: its system handles defined research tasks under human direction.
- OpenAI says Responses API usage grew 100x in a year
At DevDay, a presenter paired the growth claim with reliability above 99%, without defining either the usage measure or reliability metric.
- OpenAI says Ultra Fast runs at eight times standard speed
At DevDay, a presenter said the service would reach API, ChatGPT and Codex; OpenAI's public materials describe earlier speed tiers with different multipliers.
- DevDay 2026 Live Updates
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- InstaCloud says it raised $8M to put AI agents in charge of cloud ops
CEO Hang Huang's September 29th post pitches serverless compute and isolated environment branches; the service lists a free tier and a $20 monthly minimum for Pro.