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<\/p>\nOpenAI CEO Sam Altman unveiled new products at the company\u2019s DevDay event in San Francisco, a day after OpenAI shelved its next model over safety concerns. <\/p>\n
Sep 29, 2026<\/p>\n
Updated 3:06 pm PT<\/p>\n
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Open AI CEO Sam Altman delivers the keynote address during the OpenAI developers conference at Fort Mason on Sept. 29, 2026, in San Francisco, California.\u00a0(Heather Diehl\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s DevDay, OpenAI\u2019s annual developer conference in San Francisco, arrived Tuesday as OpenAI<\/a> faces intense pressure to address mounting safety concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n Outside Fort Mason, protesters demanded OpenAI stop working with the military and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, chanting<\/a> \u201cSam Altman, get off it, put people over profit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Inside, CEO Sam Altman pitched Dots<\/a> in an Apple-style product launch: always-on AI agents designed to act before you ask. \u201cThis is the real deal version of AI that we\u2019ve always imagined for ourselves,\u201d Altman said. \u201cIt\u2019s like an AI helper that always has your back, inspired by the cool versions of what we\u2019ve always watched growing up.\u201d<\/p>\n Dots was introduced alongside an updated version of OpenAI\u2019s Sol model and a collaborative space for teams to work together with AI. OpenAI is also shaking up its subscription offerings by debuting a new high-end, $500 paid tier with higher usage limits and faster processing speeds, and reducing certain usage limits for its $200 plan.<\/p>\n OpenAI said it would roll out Dots to some paid users starting Tuesday, with a single \u201cdot,\u201d or assistant, available to each user \u2014 who is eventually expected to manage teams of dots working together.<\/p>\n Notably absent from the stage: GPT-6.1 Astra. OpenAI pulled its release after tests found it overstepped its authority and misreported what it had done.\u00a0<\/p>\n Also not referenced in Altman\u2019s keynote: the growing list of incidents where OpenAI\u2019s models behaved in unintended ways<\/a>, such as when internal agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity test ended up hacking into the AI company Hugging Face.\u00a0<\/p>\n Researchers have since found that OpenAI agents also pushed past restrictions on other sites earlier this year, including Australian government websites and a United Nations data hub. The company apologized this week<\/a> to Australia.<\/p>\n That said, Dots runs on the existing GPT-6 version of Astra, and the company has said it hopes to use the same base model to do additional reinforcement learning runs and create future generations of its GPT-6 models.<\/p>\n Dots joins an increasingly crowded market for AI agents that includes services from Meta, SpaceX and newer startups. Meta\u2019s Muse, in particular, has gained momentum with consumers<\/a> by taking on tasks like online shopping and linking data between programs like email and calendars.<\/p>\n Silicon Valley developers are racing each other to develop agentic chatbots that offer increasing capabilities in exchange for increased access to consumers\u2019 private data. The companies are also racing to counter rising public distress about the potential of frontier artificial intelligence to destroy humanity, and public anger over the widespread construction of power-hungry data centers.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom Australia to Washington, D.C., OpenAI\u2019s penchant for ignoring security warnings and playing fast and loose with the truth is starting to catch up with Altman,\u201d wrote Charlie Blaettler, political director of Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC launched by Democrats with backing from labor unions and technology sector workers \u2014 some of whom work at OpenAI<\/a>. \u201cThey also continue to speak out of both sides of their mouths \u2013 claiming to welcome regulation while their President Greg Brockman pours millions into a super PAC dedicated to opposing AI regulations.\u201c\u00a0<\/p>\n Brockman and his wife have personally given $25 million to Leading the Future, a super PAC launched last year to support political candidates who favor light federal regulation for artificial intelligence. He was in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, lunching with President Trump alongside other AI executives like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic chief Dario Amodei, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, to discuss AI risks, following a surge in public concern about artificial intelligence potentially posing a threat to humans.<\/p>\n After the lunch, Trump dismissed<\/a> calls to regulate the industry. \u201cI will never stifle the growth of a technology that will be bigger than the industrial revolution,\u201d he said at an event to unveil a new America.gov website built with AI. Trump said he and the AI leaders had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews of the technology, though details weren\u2019t immediately available.\u00a0<\/p>\n A Senate subcommittee hearing<\/a> titled \u201cRogue AI: Securing the Homeland Against AI Agent Attacks\u201d is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. The hearing before the Homeland Security subcommittee that deals with disaster management will feature speakers like Marius Hobbhahn, CEO of Apollo Research, which tests AI models for deceptive behavior, and Chris Painter, president of Model Evaluation and Threat Research, which evaluates how capable AI agents are of acting on their own.<\/p>\n OpenAI and its rival Anthropic plan to go public sometime in the next few months, although OpenAI has said it no longer expects to IPO<\/a> in 2026, as it focuses on addressing safety concerns from its technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AP24134775174210-scaled-e1770337042768.jpg\")
The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT, March 21, 2023, in Boston, Massachusetts. \u00a0(Michael Dwyer\/Associated Press)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AnthropicAP.jpg\")
The Anthropic website and the company\u2019s logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Feb. 26, 2026. \u00a0(Patrick Sison\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n