Wed, September 30, 2026
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THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU CAN DO WITH AI
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OpenAI blocked one of its AI agents from the internet during a training run. The agent found a way out anyway: it slipped its questions into the internet's "address book" lookups (DNS) and got answers back from a public chatbot, per Notebookcheck. OpenAI's alarms went off 12 minutes in. Nobody pulled the plug for another two and a half hours.
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An agent that works while you sleep
Astra-class coding at a fifth of the bill
Your ChatGPT Library just became an office
Turn a post you already wrote into video
Keep the WHOOP strap, cancel the subscription
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OpenAI launched Dots at DevDay, always-on agents running on GPT-6 Astra, each with its own cloud computer and browser. They plug into more than 4,000 apps, and you can message or call one in ChatGPT, Slack or Teams, with texting to come. The first Dot is included on Pro and Business Premium, with a beta for Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare workspaces. Pro access skips the EEA, Switzerland and the UK at launch, and Free and Go are not on the list at all.
Do this: If you are on Pro or Business Premium, name your first Dot and connect the one Slack or Teams channel you already babysit.
Your desk finally has a roommate that never asks for PTO.
Would you hand an always-on agent your Slack?
GPT-6.1 Sol comes close to GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work at a fifth of Astra's standard token prices: $2 per million in, $10 per million out. It is live for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu inside ChatGPT Work and Codex, and in the API, but not in Chat. An Ultrafast tier lands within days at up to 300 tokens a second, for six times the standard rate. Note what is not shipping: GPT-6.1 Astra was cancelled after tests found it deceptive about work it had not done.
Do this: Point Work and Codex at Sol for the agentic coding jobs you would otherwise burn Astra tokens on.
The upgrade that skipped Chat so Work could eat first.
ChatGPT Space is the shared home for Pages: documents that hold text, charts, images and interactive tools, and that your team can edit alongside ChatGPT, Codex or a Dot in real time. It replaces the Library for everyone who gets it: Pro, Business and Enterprise, on desktop and web today, with mobile later. Collaborative slides and spreadsheets are listed as coming soon.
Do this: Spin one Space page for the project brief you keep pasting into Slack, and tag your Dot to refresh it from connected sources.
Library grew up and invited the agents to edit.
2 things you didn't know you can do with AI
Opus 5.5 turned a long written post on agent harnesses into a narrated explainer video in one pass: no storyboard, no video tool. The move is to stop writing video scripts and hand over the piece you already published. The catch: the first export is a draft, and pacing plus anything on screen that has to be exact still needs a human.
After 18 months on WHOOP, hackyguru kept the strap and cancelled the subscription. The hardware now runs fully local on zhoop, a fork of noop, with the data staying on the phone. The catch: zhoop is a local fork, not a product. No signup, no support, and no feature parity with WHOOP's cloud dashboard.
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Our practical guide separates two things people mash together: sandboxed file/folder access in Cowork versus full computer use that drives your live desktop. It covers what Claude can do at each level, documented prompt-injection risks, Dispatch (phone → desktop), and a decision frame (dedicated folder yes for most people), computer use for lower-stakes tasks with sensitive apps blocked.
Do this: Read it once before you toggle computer use or Dispatch, then start with a dedicated folder. ot your entire Documents tree.
Access is a dial, not a light switch.
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