Releases

OpenAI will remove tts-1, tts-1-hd and two GPT-4o mini TTS snapshots from the API on January 6, 2027. The recommended replacement is gpt-realtime-2.1-mini.

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OpenAI is scheduled to shut down the v1/prompts API and reusable prompt objects on November 30, 2026. The migration path is to keep prompt content in application code.

OpenAI is scheduled to shut down the Evals dashboard and API on November 30, 2026, after making existing evals read-only on October 31.

AWS re:Invent 2026 is scheduled for November 30 through December 4 in Las Vegas, featuring cloud and AI announcements, keynotes and technical sessions.

Microsoft Ignite 2026 is scheduled for November 17–20 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, with an online digital experience focused on AI, cloud and enterprise technology.

Grok Imagine model family

Mistral will retire the third-party zai-glm-5-2 model from its API on October 31, 2026. Mistral directs integrations to zai-glm-5-3 at the same price.

OpenAI says existing content on the deprecated Evals platform becomes read-only on October 31, 2026, ahead of the platform shutdown on November 30.

Microsoft scheduled publication of its fiscal 2027 first-quarter financial results for October 28, 2026 after market close, followed by a live earnings webcast at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

Oracle AI World 2026 is scheduled for October 25–28 at The Venetian Convention and Expo Center in Las Vegas. Oracle's flagship conference will feature executive keynotes, product announcements and demonstrations, customer case studies, technical sessions, hands-on labs, and training focused on Oracle's AI, cloud infrastructure, database, and applications portfolio.

OpenAI will remove gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 and gpt-4-0613 snapshot aliases from the API on October 23, 2026. The documented replacements are GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Sol respectively.

NVIDIA DGX Spark

NVIDIA's GTC conference comes to Berlin on Oct 20–22, 2026, with a keynote. Bloomberg reported Jensen Huang plans about $2B in European AI deals around the trip.

Anthropic's first Claude Corps cohort begins Foundations training on October 19, 2026. The fully funded fellowship places about 100 early-career fellows with mission-driven nonprofits for 12 months.

Politico reported that Anthropic is circulating draft federal legislation that would let the Commerce Department seek a court order to halt a frontier model posing imminent risk of over $1B in damages or 50+ deaths or serious injuries, with 72-hour incident reporting.

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Open Source AI Week runs October 16–25 across the Bay Area, kicked off with Prime Intellect, with contributors from Hugging Face, Mistral, GitHub and others.

Reuters reported that prospective backers discussed a roughly $1.5 trillion valuation for Anthropic's planned November share sale, down from about $2 trillion, after Q3 revenue growth slowed to 45% quarter on quarter. Figures come from anonymous sources and are not a completed valuation.

Google rolled out Universal Cart in the US, letting shoppers save items from multiple retailers in one cart and check out via its Universal Commerce Protocol in Search and the Gemini app. Partners include Ulta Beauty, Walmart, Wayfair, Newegg and select Shopify merchants.

Perplexity released SPACE, its Firecracker-based VM sandbox for running AI agents, on GitHub under Apache 2.0. It reports ~60 ms median sandbox creation and no successful escapes in a September red-team exercise; CoreWeave, Akamai and Crusoe plan to offer it to customers.

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Hivemind

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Mercor, Harvey, Cognition and Ramp reported that small targeted datasets improved NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super on held-out legal, software-engineering and accounting work.

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Krea said Krea 3 was available to its 30 million users.

Axios reports the FTC sent Anthropic (and OpenAI) a 50-page civil investigative demand covering security incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy; the probe cites an Anthropic model that submitted a false murder tip to Philadelphia police.

Axios reports the FTC sent OpenAI (and Anthropic) a 50-page civil investigative demand covering security incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy policies, as part of its consumer-safety probe into frontier AI labs.

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CNN signed a multi-year, paid partnership granting Google enhanced rights to CNN content to test experimental generative AI news features in Google products.

Mistral AI and CERN signed a non-binding statement of intent for a long-term partnership on foundation models for science, starting with a Large Physics Model for collider physics trained on billions of simulated LHC proton-proton collisions.

Cohere signed a letter of intent to acquire Prague-based AI security startup AISLE, whose autonomous scanners have found 500+ CVEs. AISLE CEO Ondrej Vlcek will lead a new Cohere Cyber unit, Jaya Baloo becomes Cohere's global CISO and Stanislav Fort leads AI security research. Terms were not disclosed; the deal has not closed.

GitHub made AI Scan for pull requests generally available, adding AI-driven advisory security scanning for languages CodeQL does not cover, along with Agentic Autofix, which drafts fixes for code-scanning alerts in batches of up to 25. Both are billed through AI Credits.

Claude Opus 5.5 · claude-opus-5-5

GPT-Live · GPT-Live-1.1

FLUX 3 · FLUX 3 Image Klein

MAI · MAI-Base-2

NVIDIA Nemotron · 3.5

Muse · Muse Spark Open

Grok Voice model family · 3.0