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.

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.

At the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA said its Vera CPU MGX rack for agentic AI, inference and storage is now shipping, contributed third-generation Vera Rubin MGX rack and tray designs (hoseless liquid-cooled tray, 5,000 A busbar) to OCP, and introduced a USFP 400Gb-per-lane networking module with Cisco.

Microsoft introduced its third-generation Maia 300 AI accelerator (TSMC N2P compute chiplets, eight HBM4 stacks, 18 TB/s). Microsoft claims 40% more inference tokens per watt than leading GPU systems and up to 7x the rack-scale throughput of Maia 200. Satya Nadella said the Maia family will scale to multi-gigawatt deployments from next calendar year as the primary inference system for Microsoft's own products.

Meta Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, larger than Muse Spark and positioned as Meta's first frontier models. Meta says they score comparably to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra and lead on its MemoryBench continual-learning test (company claims). Muse Wonder costs $4 / $20 per million input/output tokens on the Meta Model API; Wonder Full is limited to Muse Code subscribers. Both power the Muse agent and were trained at the Prometheus data center in Ohio.

The Wall Street Journal reported Amazon is in talks to buy Nvidia-backed Decart, maker of the Lucy real-time video model and Oasis simulation model, for around $7 billion. Neither company confirmed; Decart was valued near $4 billion in May.