How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out
Albertsons Companies is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help its teams work faster and to make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers, according to OpenAI.
AI news for builders and product teamsUpdated Oct 10, 2026, 20:01 UTC
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Newest firstOpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?
At OpenAI's annual DevDay conference, CEO Sam Altman announced Dots, a personal assistant agent powered by GPT-6 Astra. The Verge reports the launch is aimed at competing with Meta's Muse AI agent platform, with a demo showing Dots building metaverse-esque virtual worlds.
Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.
Photon, a startup that helps developers build AI agents for messaging platforms like iMessage and WhatsApp, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding. The company says it has over 40,000 developer sign-ups and grew revenue 10x in four months.
One year later: Sovereign AI and the fight for choice
Cloudflare is bringing two publicly built European open models, EuroLLM and Apertus, to Workers AI with access requests open now, and launching hands-on AI security workshops for government cyber agencies, starting in Singapore in October.
Fall Into 25 New Games on GeForce NOW This October
NVIDIA announced that 25 new games will join GeForce NOW throughout October, with six available the week of the announcement. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered launched Sept. 29 and is streaming for Performance and Ultimate members, who can also claim a CONTROL Resonant reward from Oct. 1 to Nov. 1.
Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses
Legato, a hearing tech startup founded in 2024, has launched its AI-based hearing glasses, called Legato Frames, starting at $999 for adults with up to moderate hearing loss. The glasses, which process audio on-device with no cameras or recording, are available in the U.S. and eligible for vision insurance coverage.
Cloudflare OS: your company’s agent workspace, managed for you
Cloudflare has opened a waitlist for fully managed Cloudflare OS deployments, letting organizations launch an agent workspace without operating it themselves. The open-source version remains available, and new features add GitHub repository access, Google Workspace improvements, and more export formats.
AI Search is now generally available
Cloudflare's AI Search is now generally available, adding native image embeddings, OCR for PDFs, and a file size limit raised to 10 MiB. Billing starts November 1, 2026, with a free monthly allotment on all Workers plans.
What Is Jev? A Guide to TypeSafe AI’s System One Model
TypeSafe AI has released Jev, a System One model that makes structured classification decisions instead of generating text, and LangChain has published an integration guide for using it in agent loops. TypeSafe AI reports up to 200x faster inference and 400x lower cost than comparable LLMs on classification tasks.
IP Functions are Generally Available, bringing high-performance network analytics to the Lakehouse
Databricks announced that IP Functions are generally available, bringing high-performance network analytics to the Lakehouse. The company describes IP data as warehousing data, referencing firewalls, load balancers, VPNs, CDN edges and DNS resolvers.
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia has a ‘newly refreshed’ design
Grokipedia, SpaceXAI's AI-powered Wikipedia competitor, received a v0.3 update adding a new logo and refreshed homepage and live edits page. SpaceXAI head of design Benji Taylor described it as a "newly refreshed Grokipedia."
The Den frees up 10-15 hours a week to grow with ChatGPT Work
The Den, a social club, says using ChatGPT Work frees up 10-15 hours a week, cutting grant applications to 2 hours from 3 days and liquor-license materials to 3 hours from 4 days, as it opens a new location.
Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week
OpenAI announced Computer Use updates at DevDay, including the Dots personal assistant, GPT-6.1 Sol, the Agents API with Computer Use, and the Decisions API. Ari Weinstein and Nikunj Handa discussed these changes on the Latent Space podcast.
He Built This City
Simon Willison visited the Museum of the City of New York and saw "He Built This City: Joe Macken's Model," a 50 by 27 feet model of the city built over 21 years from balsa wood and cardboard. He said it exceeded his expectations and noted the exhibition closes on 12th October.
Google drops Gems for Skills, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in the shift to agent-ready prompt formats
Google is rolling out "Skills" globally in Gemini chat, replacing Gems with reusable prompts invoked by typing "/". The format is based on an open standard from Anthropic. Gems will be phased out beginning in November, with existing ones converting automatically.
Introducing ai_decide: make fast decisions on your governed data
Databricks launched ai_decide, a new AI Function that it says makes fast decisions on governed data. The company announced the launch in a blog post but provided no further technical details.
A practical guide to cost optimization with Lakebase Postgres
Databricks published a practical guide to cost optimization with Lakebase Postgres, describing Lakebase as a fully managed Postgres database built for operational realities.
Your iPhone just got a hidden anti-scam upgrade in iOS 27: How to enable it
Apple introduced Impersonation Risk Detection in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, a security option that warns users before actions in supported apps that may indicate a scam. It is off by default and can be enabled in Settings under Privacy & Security.
Simplifying domains for people and agents
Cloudflare overhauled its Registrar domain search to show every supported extension as you type, and expanded its Registrar API plus launched a cf CLI so AI agents can search, register, and transfer domains. Birthday Week discounts on select extensions like .io, .dev, .app and .tech begin this week.
Get Kindle Unlimited free for 3 months with this Prime Day deal: Final hours
Amazon is offering new and select returning Kindle Unlimited subscribers three months free, down from the usual $11.99 per month, as an early Prime Day deal. The offer runs through Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale ending Oct. 7.