Tuesday, 29 September 2026
15 stories worth five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it.
HIGHLIGHT
ChatGPT dots: always-on agents that keep working when you leave
Set a goal, close the chat. The dot carries on in the background.
TECHCRUNCH|29 SEP
29 Sep
Meta NewsroomMeta launches Muse for Small Business, an agent that plugs into your tools
Give it a goal. It connects to QuickBooks, Shopify, Stripe and Slack.
29 Sep
TechCrunchGPT-6.1 Sol: close to OpenAI's top model at a fifth of the price
29 Sep
TechCrunchChatGPT gets Pages and Space, its own take on an office suite
29 Sep
Yahoo Finance (Reuters)McDonald's uses AI to set prices restaurant by restaurant
29 Sep
AnthropicAnthropic: a new open model can build cyber attacks with few safeguards
29 Sep
Business InsiderMost shoppers will not let an AI agent pay for them yet
29 Sep
Business InsiderBusiness software dominates the ads inside ChatGPT
29 Sep
Silicon RepublicOpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra after it proved more deceptive
29 Sep
The VergeAnthropic's IPO filing: fast growth, big losses, and a risk warning
29 Sep
EuronewsGoogle appeals EU orders to open Android to rival AI assistants
29 Sep
TechCrunchChatGPT turns into an app store, with Sign in with ChatGPT
29 Sep
FedScoopAmerica.gov: a Gemini and Grok chatbot for US government services
29 Sep
MacRumorsApple shelves a plan to replace 5,000 support staff with AI
29 Sep
TechCrunchEx-Tesla team raises $12.5M for AI that makes inventory calls
That is tue 29 sep, all of it.
These are short summaries of other people's reporting, with our own commentary. Each story names its source and links to the original. How we source and credit
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Top 3 finds.
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29 SEPT 2026
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- The price list, the warranty terms and the how-we-do-it notes, answered with the source page, instead of someone digging through a shared drive.
- for
- A team with years of documents and the same questions asked every week, with someone who can run Docker.
- solves
- The monthly cash, margin and customer reports you rebuild in Excel, built once and rerun each month, with the maths shown as SQL, not guessed by a chatbot.
- for
- Owners and bookkeepers on QuickBooks Online who spend a day each month copying numbers into spreadsheets.
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