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.

OpenAI began a global rollout of GPT-6 and Intelligent UI in ChatGPT. Intelligent UI generates native interactive responses with visuals, buttons, forms, charts, and task-specific tools. The release started with Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, followed by Free and Go users on October 8.

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its fastest and most capable small model for high-volume, cost-sensitive workloads. Anthropic says it costs about 75% less per task on average than Haiku 4.5, supports adjustable effort, and is available across the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

AWS released Strands Box, an open-source sandbox for AI agents powered by Dogwood policies. The initial release supports macOS and is designed to package agent runtimes with enforceable controls that can later travel with deployed agents.

AWS introduced the publicly available Physical AI Toolchain, a curated collection of reference architectures, Infrastructure as Code and deployment automation for training and deploying physical AI policies at scale across robotics, autonomous vehicles and smart-factory workloads.

Amazon announced general availability of Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. AWS says the model is designed for subagents and high-volume, cost-sensitive workloads and costs around 75% less than Claude Haiku 4.5 for most tasks.

SpaceXAI released Grok Bot 0.68.1 with collaborative slide-deck creation and PowerPoint or Google Slides export, formatted email sending, Gmail spam recovery, Slack user-group mentions and faster computer actions.

Microsoft opened preorders for Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, both built around NVIDIA RTX Spark for local AI development and agent workloads. Surface Laptop Ultra availability begins October 16, while the Dev Box is scheduled to ship in the United States in November.

Google expanded SynthID Detector to global English-language availability, letting anyone check whether an image, video or audio file was created with AI from Google or participating partners.

Microsoft made Microsoft Execution Containers generally available on Windows 11, providing policy-driven containment for AI agents with controls over file and network access and integrations spanning Agent 365, Intune and Windows security.

NVIDIA and Microsoft opened preorders for Windows PCs powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark, including systems from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI and Microsoft Surface. RTX Spark laptops are scheduled to become available on October 16, with compact desktops following in November.