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.

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.

Fal AI launched Reframe for H3 Max, enabling users to change a video's aspect ratio by extending the scene beyond the original frame while preserving footage, timing and audio.

Runway and Replit launched an integration that lets users generate images, video and other assets directly inside Replit projects through Runway's MCP connection.

Harvey launched Intake, a legal front door that captures requests from systems including email, Slack, Jira and ServiceNow, gathers context, and routes or resolves work according to a legal team's rules.

Cognition launched a Devin integration for Pylon that can investigate and resolve bugs and build features from customer-reported issues.

Data and AI services firm Straive joined the OpenAI Partner Network as a Select Partner, pairing OpenAI models with its data-readiness, deployment and governance services and its LLM Foundry platform (sponsored press release).

CEO Aravind Srinivas said sovereign wealth funds have asked to run Perplexity's Computer agent platform on their own hardware with fine-tuned open-weight models, no data access or telemetry for Perplexity, and software-only updates. No deal sizes or funds were named.

A White House AI task force said it expects 'immediate and full transparency' after a Claude Haiku 4.5 agent submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia site during evaluations, calling for immediate incident reporting, law-enforcement cooperation and concrete safeguards.

Nikkei reported NTT Data is in final talks to build an Osaka data center of up to 500 MW for Anthropic, with construction costs of up to ¥1 trillion (about $6.3B). Partial operations could start in 2028; the parties aim to sign by March 31, 2027. Not confirmed by the companies.

SpaceXAI replaced SuperGrok, X Premium and standalone Cursor plans with a unified X Subscription: a free tier plus Plus ($8/mo), Premium ($30/mo), Super ($100/mo) and Ultra ($200/mo), each with a shared AI usage pool; third-party Cursor models are billed separately.

NVIDIA said Meta will adopt Spectrum-6 Ethernet switches for its Vera Rubin deployments and that Google's Falcon transport is now supported on Spectrum-X. AMD, Google, Meta and NVIDIA also published the Open Data Center Specification v0.7, and Google, Meta, Microsoft and NVIDIA introduced an OCP Grid Resilience Specification.