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Thursday 1 October
VideoFireship
The one OpenAI announcement that can actually make you money...
A Fireship 'Code Report' video recapping OpenAI Dev Day 2026 (October 1, 2026). Key announcements: Dots, a $100/month personal agent powered by GPT-6 Astra, positioned against Meta's Muse; a new Pro 500 tier at $500/month offering 25x ChatGPT usage and an 'ultrafast' tier running Astra at 300 tokens/sec (API ultrafast priced at $60 per million input tokens); the $200 plan having its usage cut in half; GPT-6.1 Soul, described as near-Astra intelligence at a fifth of the price ($2 per million tokens in, $10 out), matching GPT-6 Soul's pricing; the Decisions API, which uses a small 'Luna' model to select from a fixed list of answers (compared to Type-Safe AI's Jev); productivity apps Pages (a Google Docs clone) and Space (a Notion clone) plus a Slack bot; and 'Sign in with ChatGPT,' letting users authenticate and spend their own tokens, launching with 16 partners including Devin, Notion, Vercel, and OpenClaw. The sponsor segment promotes Fastly Labs' (fastino.ai) open-weight decision models Gliner 2.5 Decide and Glide as a locally-runnable, cheaper alternative to Jev, and notes the host added the model's skill to OpenCode to route developer requests.
VideoWes Roth
GEMINI 4 is nuts...
A news-style video by Wes Roth covering recent AI product announcements. Google is reportedly readying a comeback with Gemini 4 Argon, and the video discusses what the early results tell us. OpenAI's DevDay 2026 is covered for its reveal of Dots (always-on AI assistants) and developer tools intended to move AI beyond chat into getting work done. The video also references GPT-6.1 Sol and includes a sponsor segment for CodeRabbit's Change Stack.
Wednesday 30 September
VideoMatthew Berman
OpenAI COOKED
A recap of OpenAI Dev Day 2026 by Matthew Berman covering several announcements. DOTS is OpenAI's always-on personal AI assistant competing with Grok, Muse, and Instinct and inspired by OpenClaw; it lives within ChatGPT, controls ChatGPT and Codex threads, connects to personal accounts (Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar), and its conversations don't count toward usage unless they control threads. Ultrafast is GPT-6 Astra powered by Cerebras chips, running eight times faster but at six times the cost; a new Pro 500 plan ($500/month) offers 25x usage limits. GPT-6.1 is described as affordable, fast, and near GPT-6 Astra quality at a fraction of the price ($2 per million input, $10 per million output). Codex updates include Codex in the Cloud, a refreshed Codex CLI with voice control, Codex code review, a Decisions API, a plugins relaunch, 'Sign in with ChatGPT + bring your tokens,' and ChatGPT Space Links.