OpenAI DevDay still felt consumer, analyst says
Ray Wang told The Information that OpenAI DevDay still felt like a consumer event. Confirmed quotes, company claims, and what stays opinion.
Anna Goldie: the brain is still more efficient than AI
Ricursive CEO Anna Goldie told The Information the brain, at about 20 watts, is still more efficient than AI. Her thesis is chip design, not a brain chip.
Google signs White House Accord on Super Intelligence
Pichai said Google signed a voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence with Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia. It is not a law.
Dense Qwen3.8-27B now on Nebius Token Factory
On 30 Sep 2026 Qwen said Qwen3.8-27B is on Nebius Token Factory. Weights shipped 14 Aug. Price and speed come from the card and third parties.
Proximal generates coding tasks with AI
Proximal announced a $15M seed led by General Catalyst and said it reached $200M in annualized revenue by generating coding tasks with AI.
Perplexity ships pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview
Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview on 30 Sep 2026. Weights are on Hugging Face; SOTA scores are the company's own.
Microsoft joins Apache Ossie, an open metrics standard
At FabCon Europe, Microsoft confirmed Apache Ossie and published a Power BI converter. The standard records metrics; complex DAX still becomes BLANK().
ChatGPT shareable profiles group Sites and plugins
OpenAI launched ChatGPT shareable profiles at DevDay 2026. Signed-in pages group name, activity, plugins and up to 12 Sites. Help Center sets the rules.
DeepMind open-sources SynthID Bio protein watermark
Google DeepMind published SynthID Bio in Nature on 30 Sep 2026: open-source tools to watermark AI proteins. Lab tests are the company's own.
Google pays some publishers for AI answers
Google confirmed a closed Search Console pilot that pays some sites for AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini. List, formula and sums stay unpublished.