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.
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.
Aeon was a September 28 Verge rumor. OpenAI announced Dots and 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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