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.

OpenAI says custom GPTs are scheduled to retire across ChatGPT plans on December 11, 2026, with a migration path to plugins. Qualified Enterprise workspaces with an approved deferral may continue until February 11, 2027.

OpenAI will remove gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and the chatgpt-image-latest alias from the API on December 1, 2026. The recommended replacements are GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst or Flare.

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.

SpaceXAI will retire the grok-imagine-image-quality alias on November 2, 2026. The alias will continue to resolve to grok-imagine-image-2.0 with quality set to low, at a lower per-image price.

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 says the 64GB DGX Spark configuration will become available from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI on October 23, 2026, starting at $4,999.

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.

Google DeepMind reported that four cooperating Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated Minecraft's Ender Dragon from a random spawn in 27 hours 14 minutes, writing 2,783 programs and coordinating through in-game chat and shared memory.

OpenEvidence's enterprise site reported that 65% of U.S. doctors use the platform.

OpenEvidence reported supporting more than 200 million AI-powered clinical consultations from U.S. doctors and other frontline clinicians to date.

OpenEvidence reported adoption across more than 500 healthcare institutions and provider groups.

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.