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TREE NEWS update: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will provide multiple market versions of its Dots agent, adding that the company is in a “very steep growth phase.” The remarks were made in a Bloomberg Television interview. No further details on the regional versions or a timeline were given.

TREE NEWS update: New Mexico’s historic preservation office approved a cultural resources monitoring plan for Energy Transfer Corp.’s 17.8-mile Green Chile natural gas pipeline, which will power a planned Oracle data center in the state. Historic preservation director Michelle M. Ensey said in a Monday letter to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management that the plan is cleared for implementation.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said an IPO would be a “pathological” recommendation at a time when the company is focused on safety, indicating the AI developer will prioritize its safety agenda before pursuing a public listing. Altman framed the sequencing as a matter of company priorities rather than a near-term capital markets plan.

TREE NEWS update: New York Fed President John Williams said AI is not the cause of the decline in hiring of recent graduates. Williams pointed to data showing that companies using AI are more productive. He did not offer further detail on the labor market outlook.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI unveiled ‘dots’, always-on AI agents equipped with their own computers, at its DevDay 2026 event. The company also introduced a cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol model and a $500 speed tier. The announcements cover OpenAI’s latest agent and model lineup.

TREE NEWS update: US President Trump met with artificial intelligence industry leaders, calling the talks smooth, cordial and productive. Trump said the discussion will make the world safer, that the US holds a large lead in AI and wants to keep it, and that there was broad consensus at the lunch. He said an AI renaming order will be signed at 5:00 pm ET, that AI should be self-regulated, and that AI leaders will work with local communities on data center issues.

TREE NEWS update: Advanced Micro Devices agreed on Monday to acquire World Labs, the two-year-old spatial and physical intelligence AI startup, at an $8.2 billion valuation. The deal will lift co-founder Fei-Fei Li’s net worth to at least $1.6 billion, an increase of more than half. The Stanford professor’s stake in the company is converted by the all-stock transaction.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI said it is continuing to assess a broader scope of activity related to AI safety concerns. The company gave no further detail on the scope, timing or specific incidents involved. The statement did not identify any affected models, users or third parties.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI said it is investigating elevated error rates affecting ChatGPT and Codex. The company confirmed the issue in a statement, without specifying the cause or how many users were impacted. No timeline for a fix was given.

TREE NEWS reports: Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr said AI’s most significant near-term effect is to drive up costs. Barr, a member of the Fed’s Board of Governors, framed the impact as a short-term dynamic rather than a benefit. He gave no specific figures or timeframe for the cost pressure.

TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI is considering raising $30 billion at a valuation of $1.4 trillion. The reported round would be among the largest private financings on record and would value the AI developer at roughly triple its most recent mark. No investors, timeline or final terms were disclosed in the material.

TREE NEWS update: CrowdStrike is making its Falcon platform available on OpenAI’s Marketplace, the cybersecurity company said. The move puts CrowdStrike’s endpoint and cloud security offerings inside OpenAI’s app and agent distribution channel, giving OpenAI customers a way to deploy Falcon through the marketplace. No financial terms were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: BBC Director-General Matt Brittin said an AI-generated episode of Doctor Who is “pretty good,” arguing that “not all creativity is bad” and that the technology will not replace humans. Brittin, who joined the BBC from Google, made the remarks in comments reported on the broadcaster’s stance toward generative AI.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI held an investor day where it launched Dots, an always-on AI agent, and introduced a new $500 paid subscription tier. The event coincided with Meta shares extending gains to 1.8%, marking a fresh intraday high for the stock.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI will preview “private inference” technology built on confidential computing this fall. The company is also deploying ChatGPT into Slack and Microsoft Teams, with users no longer required to obtain a separate license. It is launching an enterprise marketplace platform with 32 launch partners, including Salesforce, Adobe and CrowdStrike.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol, a model whose performance approaches Astra at one-fifth the standard token price. The model is available from today to all Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu users across ChatGPT Work and Codex. Standard API pricing is $2 per million input tokens, $0.10 per million cached input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with an ultra-fast version due in the coming days.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI said it is working with Microsoft to bring its professional Dots agents into Agent 365, paired with Microsoft’s enterprise-grade governance and security controls. The first Dot agent is already included in Pro and advanced business plans at no extra cost.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman released a new AI agent tool named Dots. The product launch was announced by Altman himself. No further details on pricing, availability or capabilities were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI employees warned the company’s executives that it was not doing enough, warnings the company ignored. The internal caution was raised with senior leadership. No further details on the scope of the warnings or the executives’ response were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Claude said the majority of issues affecting its service have been resolved and operations are now normal. The AI assistant reported the recovery after a period of disruption, without specifying the cause or the duration of the outage.