OpenAI DevDay 2026: The biggest news and announcements – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2026-09-29T17:46:32+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/1001681 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Emma Roth <![CDATA[OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=1002033 2026-09-29T13:46:32-04:00 2026-09-29T13:15:00-04:00 An illustration showing Dot avatars
Like Muse, OpenAI’s Dots are represented by cute, customizable avatars. | Image: OpenAI

OpenAI is responding to Meta's buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can "do nearly anything" across connected apps in the background while learning your preferences over time.

The company's capable GPT-6 Astra model powers Dots, which use their own cloud computer to access a web browser and more than 4,000 supported apps. You can interact with a Dot through a text-message-like interface that's similar to the one offered by Muse, as well as hop on a voice call with it from ChatGPT on the web, desktop, or mobile. Dots ca …

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]]> Hayden Field <![CDATA[Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=1002201 2026-09-29T13:30:57-04:00 2026-09-29T13:12:27-04:00 Protesters holding signs with messages like “People over AI” congregating outside an event venue.

On Tuesday, OpenAI's annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. "Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit," said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spelled out "PEOPLE OVER PROFIT."

More than a dozen organizations came together to sponsor a rally outside the entrance to the event venue at San Francisco's Fort Mason, including Bay Resistance, Tech Workers Coalition, Service Employees International Union, San Francisco Rising, and the San Francisco Labor Council. A large orange sign read "Drop the ICE contract." Multiple people dressed in cardboard robot costumes waved cardbo …

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]]> Hayden Field <![CDATA[OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=1001590 2026-09-28T14:40:24-04:00 2026-09-28T14:45:00-04:00 Graphic collage of Greg Brockman.

OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race. Rumors abound that OpenAI will release its own AI agent, dubbed Aeon - its answer to Meta's Muse, SpaceX's Grok Bot, OpenClaw, and many more.

Aeon could have a shot at success, but to beat the competition, it would need to pull together the best features of several different agent platforms. The ideal system would be as useful as the open-source OpenClaw, as cheap and easy …

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