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OpenAI’s Latest Personal AI Agents Have a Cute Name and Never Stop Working

When OpenAI hired OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger to head the company’s agentic AI developments, I’d suspected we’d be in for some big agent news at OpenAI’s annual DevDay on Tuesday. Enter dots.

No, not those nasty gumdrops.

We’re talking about always-on, autonomous agents powered by the company’s GPT-6 Astra AI model and designed to handle any task. Dots can connect to more than 4,000 apps and can integrate with ChatGPT, Slack or Teams to handle work assignments, according to the company’s blog post. You’ll be able to access dots in ChatGPT on desktop, web and mobile.

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OpenAI says you can start with one primary dot and then build up to “teams of dots working together on your behalf.” These agents are designed to learn from you over time. “The more you work together, the more your dot learns your preferences, how you think and what good...

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Connections: Sports Edition Hint Today: Answers for Oct. 24, # 761 - CNET

Here are the answers for today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Oct. 24. Yes, “Dallas” and “Cowboys” are both in the puzzle, but if you think they’re going to end up in the same group, maybe think again. This puzzle is rarely that obvious. Read on for

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Understanding PHP2Shell vulnerabilities and reducing risk while you patch

By Aamir Lakhani, Global Director of Threat Intelligence and Adversarial Artificial Intelligence Research, Fortinet Two critical PHP vulnerabilities disclosed this week pose an urgent security and business continuity risk for organisations that depend on websites, customer portals, and other web applications. Collectively known as PHP2Shell, these flaws may let an

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AI is speeding up developers; software delivery is not keeping pace

For two years, the pitch for AI coding tools has been simple: developers write code faster, so companies ship faster. Atlassian’s latest global survey suggests the second half of that sentence is not holding up. Individual speed is up. Team-level delivery, in many organisations, is not. The headline numbers

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Cybersecurity awareness in the age of AI: Why human oversight still matters

By Dipesh Kaura, Country Director, India and SAARC, Securonix During the recent United Nations Security Council Meeting at the UN General Assembly in New York, Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs warned that AI could threaten humanity without the application of necessary safeguards. If AI operates without human oversight, organizations risk undermining