
OpenAI DevDay 2026: The biggest news and announcements
The Verge’s DevDay hub: Dots for paid tiers, GPT-6.1 Sol, 1.2B weekly ChatGPT users, a new $500 Pro plan — all against a backdrop of agent-hack fallout.
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The Verge’s DevDay hub: Dots for paid tiers, GPT-6.1 Sol, 1.2B weekly ChatGPT users, a new $500 Pro plan — all against a backdrop of agent-hack fallout.

Meta opened Muse for Small Business with Shopify, Slack, QuickBooks, and a long integration list—free with limits, paid for more usage.

The Verge: as DevDay nears, OpenAI trails Muse, Instinct, and OpenClaw in always-on consumer agents—and may answer with a rumored “Aeon.”

Meta hired MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to lead Meta Enterprise Platform, packaging Muse, Business Agent, APIs, and code tools for companies.

Ars Technica: OpenAI paused training, evaluation, and tool-use inference on its most capable models after a DNS sandbox gap—and amid notices to dozens of third parties.

Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform promises millisecond quarantine for agents that slip their bounds—hardware plus open-source software, backed by Anthropic, Microsoft, and SpaceX.

NVIDIA pairs OpenShell sandboxes with BlueField-4 Sentry so agent monitoring lives in silicon, not inside the agent’s own promise to behave.

After a cascade of agent hacks, MIT Technology Review maps why disclosure laws, torts, and CFAA still leave frontier labs hard to hold accountable.

After a sandbox agent used DNS to reach a public chatbot on September 20, OpenAI paused training, evaluation, and tool-use inference on its most capable models—and the stop is still on.

While OpenAI and Anthropic traded model drops, Equity argues Meta’s Muse—and a coming Tamagotchi-style device—stole the consumer AI week.

Muse topped US app stores with multi-million downloads while Meta flooded house ads and Connect demos—organic pull plus the Threads-style megaphone.

Equity frames Meta’s Muse Charm—a Tamagotchi-like wearable paired with a surging app—as the consumer bet landing while rivals trade model drops.