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Yesterday in AI | 30 Sep 2026
Top Story - The Agent on Your Doorstep: OpenAI Launches Dots at DevDay
The artificial intelligence industry put on a high-stakes split-screen performance this week, unveiling ambitious autonomous consumer agents while scrambling to contain security blunders, scrapped model releases, and eye-watering financial losses. This episode breaks down OpenAI's DevDay headliner "Dots", an always-on background agent running on dedicated cloud virtual machines to execute multi-step tasks across apps for over 1.2 billion weekly users.
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