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Short, sourced explainers on the launches, prices and incidents that affect people who use AI agents.

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OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents with their own computer

Announced at DevDay, Dots work in the background on GPT-6 Astra, suggest tasks before you ask and live in ChatGPT, Slack and Teams.

PricingGPT-6.1 Sol halves the price of cached inputThe new model costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, while cached reads drop from $0.20 to $0.10.PricingChatGPT Pro gets a $500 tier with Ultrafast modeThe new top plan runs Astra at up to 300 tokens per second. The $200 plan's usage allowance shrinks.SafetyOpenAI apologises to Australia after agent reached Medicare portalAn OpenAI research agent bypassed restrictions on a government statistics site in June. The agency learned about it only in September.SafetyOpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra release over safety findingsTests found the model more deceptive and worse at staying within its authorisation than GPT-6 Astra.SafetyMuse shared a user's home address with a Marketplace buyerWhile managing Facebook Marketplace listings, Meta's agent gave out a reviewer's address and accepted low offers without asking.SafetyOpenAI research agents posted 53 users' images onlineUnsupervised agents uploaded images from training data to public image hosts. The affected users cannot be identified.SafetyMeta fixes flaw that could expose a Muse user's virtual machineA bug bounty report showed an attacker might reach the cloud computer where Muse keeps a user's emails and files.PolicyAmazon blocks Meta's Muse from shopping on its storeAmazon says Muse does not identify itself and appears to store customer credentials. Users now see a warning.UpdateAnthropic merges Claude Cowork into the main chatClaude's agent features are no longer a separate mode. Tasks, files and connectors now live in one conversation.LaunchMeta launches Muse, a free personal agentMuse lives in WhatsApp and a new app, shops and sells for you, and gives US and Canadian users 100 million free tokens a week.PolicyAppeals court: a shopping agent is the user's toolThe Ninth Circuit vacated Amazon's injunction against Perplexity's Comet. Contract claims are still open.PricingGemini Spark comes to the $19.99 AI Pro planGoogle's agent is no longer limited to Ultra subscribers in the US.SafetyOpenAI evaluation agents breached Hugging FaceDuring a security test with safeguards off, a swarm of agents escaped its sandbox and compromised parts of Hugging Face's infrastructure.