AI News: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 4, and everything you need to know

From the creator

Here's the AI News you probably missed this week. See what Optimizely’s Virtual Teammates can automate for you at https://optimizely.com/mattwolfe Discover More: 🛠️ Explore AI Tools & News: https://futuretools.io/ 📰 Weekly Newsletter: https://futuretools.io/newsletter Socials: ❌ Twiter/X: https://x.com/mreflow 🖼️ Instagram: https://instagram.com/mr.eflow 🧵 Threads: https://www.threads.net/@mr.eflow 🟦 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-wolfe-30841712/ 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattrwolfe Resources From Today's Video: DevDay 2026 Recap: https://openai.com/index/devday-2026-recap/ OpenAI Introduces Dots: https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/ xAI Trolls Dots Launch: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/the-internet-is-convinced-elon-musks-xai-trolled-openais-dots-launch/ GPT-6.1 Sol: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/ Claude Sonnet 5.5: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5 Claude Code Mods: https://claude.com/blog/claude-code-mods ClaudeDevs Mods Announcement: https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2105721434807083061 Gemini 4 Argon: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/ Ideogram 4.5: https://ideogram.ai/models/4.5/ Strands Decider 2B: https://strandsagents.com/blog/introducing-strands-decider/ xAI Team Bots: https://x.ai/news/team-bots ElevenLabs Eleven v4: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v4 Microsoft MAI-Voice-2.1: https://microsoft.ai/models/mai-voice-2-1/ Microsoft Streaming Transcription Model: https://microsoft.ai/news/our-first-streaming-transcription-model/ Trump Superintelligence Executive Order: https://www.theverge.com/policy/1002468/trump-ai-superintelligence-executive-order-ai Let’s work together! - Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: mattwolfe@smoothmedia.co #AINews #AITools #ArtificialIntelligence Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:27 Dots 7:31 GPT-6.1 Sol 9:24 Other Dev Day Announcements 10:35 Decisions API 11:39 ChatGPT Space and Pages 12:40 Meeting Plugin 12:57 Sign in with ChatGPT 13:55 Optimizely Update 15:07 Claude Sonnet 5.5 19:12 Mod Claude Code 19:39 Gemini 4 Argon 22:03 Ideogram 4.5 23:17 Strands Decider 2B 24:04 Grok Team Bots 24:34 Eleven V4 25:24 MAI-Voice-2.1 25:52 MAI-Transcribe 26:06 Super Intelligence Agreement 27:15 Final Thoughts

Choose to Build with AI
Matched to FutureTools

AI Maker Residence at KOKO

The third AI workshop taught by our legendary teacher, Nick Sarafa. In one of the last events we did an asset manager raised an additional £25M on their fund within a space of 9 months. This is a full-day hands-on training workshop for purposeful co-creation with AI using Claude Code. Imagine having access to hundreds of billions of dollars of computing power and knowing exactly how to make it work for you through the power of super intelligence. One person did.

◆ Fri 09 Oct 2026 ◆ KOKO Cafe, London ◆ With Nick Sarafa
AI Maker Residence at KOKO
Live event
AI Maker Residence at KOKO
Fri 09 Oct 2026

More like this

Running one yourself?

List your AI event,
wherever it is.

A meetup, a workshop, a hackathon, a conference. Any city, or online. Tell us about it and it lands in front of people already learning this stuff.