Tops GPTs 
OpenAI introduced GPT-6.1 Sol as an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol that narrows the gap with GPT-6 Astra on coding, professional workflows and computer-use tasks while reducing several token prices. Cached input is priced at $0.10 per million tokens.
OpenAI will train about 150 America’s SBDC advisors and run hands-on workshops aiming to reach at least 1,000 small businesses. OpenAI’s report Small Businesses, Bigger Capabilities found roughly 4 million small-firm employees used its tools Sept 9–15.
OpenAI said it disrupted a coordinated adversarial distillation campaign that began July 1 and spiked on July 24–25 with about 16,000 requests. A core cluster was attributed to individuals linked to Moonshot AI, developer of Kimi, and mitigations were deployed.
The Open TTS Leaderboard (published Sep 30, 2026) introduces an objective, scalable framework to benchmark open-source multilingual TTS and voice cloning. Metrics include WER/CER via Qwen3 ASR, inference speed (RTFx, TTFA) and speaker SIM with WavLM embeddings.
At Dev Day, Sam Altman introduced the Decisions API, which he said narrows a model to a fixed set of options to make it faster while preserving image understanding and safety. Observers compare it to TypeSafe AI’s Jev; developers are testing similar decision-focused models.
The launch team says RemoteConsole is a mobile SSH terminal designed for developers on the go. It lets users reattach to persistent tmux sessions running Claude Code, Codex, Aider or Gemini CLI and includes an SFTP browser and NAT traversal without a VPN.
Holo4 ships in 27B and 35B-A3B sizes and Holotron4 Nano updates a Nano agentic stack. The authors say the models operate across GUIs, code, MCP and APIs and report competitive scores on OSWorld 2.0 and AutomationBench at lower cost per task.
Arc has released Arc AI Screen Assistant, a floating overlay that reads any screen and offers one-tap AI actions like summaries, read-aloud and Smart Extract. Arc says the tool is available on Android and Mac and is free to start.
After a deepfake call scammed her grandfather, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI to detect AI-generated voices locally on phones. The company offers an SDK for OEMs and reports early revenue and a platform handling over 100,000 calls monthly in India.
invideo says GPT‑6 Astra can plan edits with frame‑level accuracy, improve color‑grading and correction success about threefold, and produce roughly 50 custom effects in a single day. Sanket Shah, CEO of invideo, highlighted fewer reasoning steps and stronger task retention.