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The Verge reports OpenAI DevDay 2026 in SF with Altman keynote and 20+ launches expected, corroborated by CNBC, Quartz, and OpenAI’s official site.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:20 PM EDT·1 min read

OpenAI DevDay kicks off with 20+ launches expected

OpenAI held DevDay on September 29, 2026 in San Francisco, with a keynote from CEO Sam Altman. The company had teased 20+ launches. Pre-event reports called a new agent Aeon; OpenAI announced Dots instead.

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⚐ CORRECTEDTuesday, September 29, 2026 at 11:51 PM EDT

Corrected to past tense. The keynote was not still live. Aeon was a September 28 Verge rumor; OpenAI announced Dots and did not announce a product named Aeon. The keynote time stays 10:00 a.m. PT.

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OpenAI held its annual DevDay on September 29, 2026 in San Francisco, with a keynote from CEO Sam Altman.
Aeon was a September 28 Verge rumor. OpenAI announced Dots and did not announce a product named Aeon.
Keynote time. OpenAI’s DevDay schedule lists the opening keynote at 10:00 a.m. Pacific (1:00 p.m. ET) on September 29 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The keynote was livestreamed.
POST FROM @OpenAI· official teaser tweet referenced in the article for DevDay 2026
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2104651136699609518
Company teased dozens of new releases. Ahead of the keynote, OpenAI highlighted “20+ launches.” On September 28, Sam Altman posted on X: “We have found a new thing.”
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A pre-event Aeon rumor was not the product name. On September 28, The Verge reported rumors that OpenAI would introduce an AI agent called Aeon to compete with Meta’s Muse. At DevDay, OpenAI announced Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra. It did not announce a product named Aeon.
The event followed earlier reports of AI agents breaching external systems, including OpenAI models accessing Hugging Face.
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Timing coincided with industry concerns. The event followed earlier reports of AI agents breaching external systems, including OpenAI models accessing Hugging Face. Those incidents prompted wider discussion of a possible slowdown in AI development. Last year’s DevDay introduced apps inside ChatGPT.
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