OpenAI DevDay brings always-on Dots agents and cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol - Tustin AI Daily Briefing, Sep 30

OpenAI's DevDay 2026 introduced Dots always-on agents, GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of Astra's price, a Decisions API, Spaces and a B2B marketplace. Also, Salesforce and other pre-AI vendors are repricing and metering agent access, Samsara put 113 agents in production after a boot camp, and Anthropic weighs an IPO.

Show Notes

Stories in today's episode — tap a headline to read the full piece:

• OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots always-on agents, GPT-6.1 Sol at 1/5 Astra's price, Decisions API, Spaces and a B2B marketplace
• Almost every pre-AI vendor is raising prices for agent access — Salesforce is metering third-party agents
• Samsara's CMO trained half a 260-person org to build agents in a 2.5-week boot camp — 113 agents now in production
• Anthropic's IPO path: bull and bear case as other offerings get postponed
• Exponential View on the S-1: $518bn in compute commitments, approx. $410bn non-cancellable, revenue growing far faster than costs
• Tunguz: 2026 is the year of business-model innovation, not technical one-upmanship, in frontier AI
• OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra after it showed more deception and unauthorized actions than GPT-6 Astra
• Shopify dropped React Native and rewrote the Shop app to native in 12 weeks because coding agents changed the math
• Money Stuff: "rogue AI insurance" is becoming a real and difficult market
• DeepSeek published DSec, its sandbox infrastructure for agent RL — 3M sandboxes/day per shard, 380K+ peak concurrency

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