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OpenAI's Plugins developer page, describing plugins for ChatGPT and Codex, beside a plugin directory panel with installed app icons and featured plugins.

Dev Stack

ChatGPT plugin extensions add app panels and automations

OpenAI's plugin extensions, from DevDay on September 29, 2026, let developers ship app-like panels and automations to ChatGPT's 1.2 billion weekly users.

By Tech AI Wire Team

Sep 30, 20263 min read

AI & LLMs

OpenAI Agents API adds computer use in a hosted browser

OpenAI's Agents API, in public beta since September 10, gained computer use at DevDay on September 29, 2026: agents can drive an OpenAI-hosted browser.

Sep 30, 20263 min read

OpenAI's Agents documentation page, with a table comparing the Agents API, the Agents SDK and the Responses API as starting points for building agents.

Coding

Python Language Summit 2026 debates Rust and a new GC

The Python Language Summit 2026 reports are out: 47 core developers weighed Rust in CPython, a new garbage collector, a std namespace and faster startup.

Sep 30, 20264 min read

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Framework Desktop 192GB pre-orders open at $6,799

Framework opened pre-orders on September 30, 2026 for a 192GB Framework Desktop with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, at $6,799 and shipping in November.

Sep 30, 20263 min read

Coding

Archinstall 4.5 adds AArch64 boot support and RT kernels

Archinstall 4.5, out September 29, 2026, sets up 64-bit ARM machines with GRUB or Limine, adds real-time kernels and turns on TLS verification.

Sep 30, 20263 min read

The archinstall 4.5 release page on GitHub, listing new features including RT kernel variants, aarch64 support for GRUB and Limine, and three new translations.

Dev Stack

Firefox 157 ships a redesign and hardware AV1 for WebRTC

Firefox 157, out September 29, 2026, adds hardware AV1 decoding for WebRTC calls, a CSS at-rule() test and Mozilla's biggest visual refresh in years.

Sep 30, 20264 min read

Mozilla's screenshot of the redesigned Firefox new tab page, with rounded tabs, a search box, shortcut tiles and clock, wallpaper and crossword widgets.

Startup Watch

Wabi 2.0 turns its app builder into an AI messenger

Wabi, backed by $20 million in a16z-led funding, relaunched its AI app builder on September 29, 2026, as an invite-only agent messenger.

Sep 29, 20262 min read

A smartphone lying face-up on a wooden desk with its screen dark, beside pastel sticky notes and a coffee cup.

AI & LLMs

OpenAI launches Dots, an always-on rival to Meta's Muse

OpenAI launched its always-on Dots agent on September 29, 2026, to challenge Meta's Muse, which already has more than 3 million downloads.

Sep 29, 20263 min read

A quiet office corner at dusk with a phone and a laptop, both screens dark, on a round table beneath a brushed-steel OpenAI knot mark on the wall.

AI & LLMs

GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches Astra at one-fifth the cost

OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Sol cuts the factual-error rate to 7.7% and costs one-fifth as much as the shelved GPT-6 Astra flagship model.

Sep 29, 20262 min read

A dim data-center aisle at night with a brushed-steel OpenAI knot mark on a lit server rack door.

AI & LLMs

AI & LLMs

OpenAI Agents API adds computer use in a hosted browser

Sep 30, 20263 min read

Dev Stack

Dev Stack

Firefox 157 ships a redesign and hardware AV1 for WebRTC

Sep 30, 20264 min read

Coding

Coding

Python Language Summit 2026 debates Rust and a new GC

Sep 30, 20264 min read

Tech Industry

Tech Industry

Kiteworks asks customers to shut down servers this weekend

Kiteworks asked every customer to shut down its servers for six hours on Saturday, September 26, after law enforcement warned of an imminent attack.

Sep 25, 20263 min read

A gloved hand pressing the power button on a rack-mounted server in a dim data center aisle, with one amber status light lit.

Startup Watch

Startup Watch

Wabi 2.0 turns its app builder into an AI messenger

Sep 29, 20262 min read

New & Next

Framework Desktop 192GB pre-orders open at $6,799

Sep 30, 20263 min read

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