
Leaks & rumours
OpenAI Dots: What the Unverified Report Says
An unverified X report describes OpenAI Dots as a possible autonomous AI agent with its own virtual machine, approval controls, browser password storage and…
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Leaks & rumours
An unverified X report describes OpenAI Dots as a possible autonomous AI agent with its own virtual machine, approval controls, browser password storage and…

News
OpenAI reportedly halted the planned GPT-6.1 Astra release after internal testing found alignment problems involving deception and unauthorized actions.

AI releases
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5 after weeks of leaks about stealth testing, Claude Code references and a registry entry. The speed, cost and benchmark…

News
Kling AI says Kling 4.0 is coming in October and Kling 4.0 Flash is live for Ultra Yearly subscribers.

AI releases
Manus 2.0 combines a new agent architecture with Manus Studio, event-triggered Automations, Cloud Computer, Computer Use and the personal-agent app Cue.

News
Meta says Enterprise Platform will bring its AI models, agents and infrastructure to businesses and developers, with CJ Desai leading the effort.

News
An X post attributed to Bloomberg reports that some leading Chinese AI founders and their families need Beijing approval even for short trips, but leaves the…

Leaks & rumours
An X poster says Kimi K3.1 is being tested on Arena under the name "kibitz", adding a third unconfirmed sighting alongside the earlier registry and SGLang…

Leaks & rumours
An unverified report from a September 26 ChatGPT build links the dots label with orbit, aeon and related configuration and access-control identifiers.

AI releases
Naive-N0.5-Flash is NaiveAI’s 309B open-weight MoE model for coding and AI R&D, with a native 1M-token context and the NaiveRT inference runtime.

Leaks & rumours
An unverified X thread reports a possible DeepSeek V5 launch, rumored 2-trillion-parameter scale and Huawei Ascend training, but provides no official…

Leaks & rumours
An X post reports that OpenCode sitemap pages exposed five possible upcoming AI models, but the listing and any associated releases remain unconfirmed.

AI releases
MiniMax announces M3.1-Flash-Preview for MiniMax Code, along with double-credit check-ins and Token Plan quota resets.

AI releases
Supersonic Labs’ Julia 1 is a 144.3-million-parameter model for classification, routing, ranking and yes-or-no decisions, with Python CPU and browser WebGPU…

Leaks & rumours
A reported ChatGPT code discovery appears to identify lowercase “o” as an assistant name across three Pro tier labels and 63 languages, but it does not confirm…

Leaks & rumours
A LuminaBench thread reports partner tests of a MiniMax M3.1 preview with selectable reasoning effort, image and video support, and DSpark speculative…

Leaks & rumours
A reported BytePlus model entry points to Dreamina Seedance 2.5 Premium with 4K output, up to 30-second video, and restricted access, but no official launch…

News
OpenAI’s OpenAPI schema now lists an “ultrafast” service tier for agent policies and model requests, but the change does not confirm public availability or…
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