How to enable Dots on your ChatGPT account if you’re in the EU: You’ll need a good VPN. I personally use citadelvpn.io/lending/?u=tp, which you can try for free. Install it, connect to a US server, then refresh ChatGPT in your browser. Dots should become available right away.

AI agents from multiple providers accessed personal data and confidential records at Indian organizations during research and testing, TechCrunch reports, citing CERT-In. They used exposed credentials and overly permissive access. The organizations hadn't detected the intrusions themselves. That's a worrying dependence on providers reporting their own failures. techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/in…

Harness² lets agents refine their prompts, tools and other setup without retraining the model. It tests proposed changes on the current task, then extracts lessons to guide future refinements. The authors report improvements for GLM-5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash across three professional benchmarks, without ground-truth verifiers guiding the edits. arxiv.org/abs/2610.14224

Microsoft has pulled out of a planned data centre deal with Nscale in Essex, Investing.com reports, citing the Telegraph. The report says the site may not get a grid connection until the 2030s, but doesn't establish why Microsoft withdrew. ca.investing.com/news/econom…

In “Scaling Discovery Requires Forgetting,” researchers report that AI research agents became anchored to past attempts, making fewer and smaller edits as their histories grew. Their fix: periodically clear the agents' conversations and candidate history, keeping the best solution and its score. In tests on four tasks spanning programming and model training, this pushed the search further with the same budget. arxiv.org/abs/2610.20563

Periodic Labs says its materials experiments already generate millions of tokens of context each, including recipes, equipment logs, measurements and past failures. Rishabh Agarwal's COLM slides argue for learning from that history in model weights, alongside summaries and retrieval. The tradeoff is less repeated reading, but slower updates and a risk of forgetting. agarwl.github.io/slides/cont…

Higgsfield CEO Alex Mashrabov says users can now create AI videos over 10 minutes long, up from around one minute before GPT-6 Astra, in OpenAI's case study. Its creative agents handle repetitive production tasks such as creating variations of a shot. openai.com/index/higgsfield-…

Anthropic has announced its fifth Asia-Pacific office, in Singapore, and a memorandum of understanding with Singapore’s digital ministry. The planned cooperation includes AI safety, security and model evaluation, plus research on AI adoption and its impact. anthropic.com/news/singapore…

OpenAI reports that weekly active users of Codex and ChatGPT Work rose 8.1x from May to early October among EU small and medium businesses, defined here as businesses with 200 or fewer associated users. The two tools now account for more than half of output tokens in its EU ChatGPT Enterprise sample. openai.com/index/the-eus-nex…

Third Moment Research runs 10,000 agents at once on investigations lasting 36 to 48 hours, according to OpenAI’s new case study. The team uses models to identify recurring agent weaknesses, then generates thousands of synthetic scenarios to improve the agents, repeating the process as new issues emerge. openai.com/index/third-momen…

DeepSeek has released V4.1-Flash-1017 on its website, app and API, with an open-source release too. The company says it improves benchmark performance, finishes tasks faster and produces shorter outputs than the previous version. Its Search & Fetch APIs are also now public, with each endpoint priced at $0.75 per 1,000 calls. api-docs.deepseek.com/news/n…

Anthropic says its CI checks out code tens of millions of times a day. Its Scion source-control system makes working copies optional: a job that only needs a diff can request it from the server. Commits, rebases and merges happen on the server too. The design assumes always-online clients, nearly all of them agents and jobs. anthropic.com/engineering/re…

Anthropic reports that Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted an invented homicide tip to a real police form during an evaluation. It was flagged as spam and never forwarded for investigation. The company is turning off live internet access for all internal evaluations until it confirms its safeguards reliably catch unintended actions. anthropic.com/research/inves…

Asana used GPT-6 Astra in Codex to optimize its browser agent on GPT-6.1 Sol, according to OpenAI's new case study. In tests, the optimized workflow averaged $0.47 in estimated model costs and about four minutes per run: 76x cheaper and 5x faster than its original production setup on another model. openai.com/index/asana-brows…

Sabi says it raised a $50 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures to develop a brain-AI interface inside a baseball cap. The goal is to turn imagined speech into AI commands without typing, speaking or an implant. An early prototype is planned for CES 2027. globenewswire.com/news-relea…

Sophos resolves 52% of its managed detection and response cases end-to-end with AI, according to OpenAI’s new Daybreak case study. For cases using agents, average response time fell from about 38 minutes to 89 seconds. Potentially destructive actions still require human oversight. openai.com/index/sophos

Radisson's ChatGPT plugin lets travelers compare its hotels, prices and amenities, then complete bookings on Radisson's site. OpenAI's new case study reports roughly 1.5 times the visit-to-booking conversion rate of Radisson's organic search traffic in July and August 2026. openai.com/index/radisson

Pollo AI serves more than 26 million users, according to OpenAI's new case study. Its CEO wants to “do for video what Canva did for design”: let people turn ideas into finished images and videos without production expertise. openai.com/index/pollo-ai

OpenAI announced GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for ChatGPT: answers can include interactive charts, forms and small tools such as a bill splitter, right inside the conversation. Luna powers Free and Go; Sol powers Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise. This update leaves Work and Codex models unchanged. openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-e…

LegalOn reduced estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed, according to OpenAI’s new case study. It matched Astra, Sol and Luna to task complexity and development stage, with budgets tied to each business’s stage of growth. openai.com/index/legalon-hal…

OpenAI’s new Oracle case study reports a 98% reduction in talent-acquisition research time. Oracle’s recruiting team built a ChatGPT Work tool that takes a job description, researches comparable roles, benchmarks pay and assesses talent pools across locations. openai.com/index/oracle