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Walmart is selling Vizio's Mini LED Quantum TV at a discount, with the 65-inch model priced at $358 and the 85-inch at $698. The sets run Vizio OS by default but allow users to disable the smart TV software during setup, enabling use of external streaming devices instead. Testing found the mini-LED panel reaches up to 936 nits of brightness, though the IPS panel has weaker black levels and some motion blur.
OpenAI reversed a planned cut to usage allowances for its $100, $200 and $500 ChatGPT Pro tiers and Business Premium subscriptions, instead doubling the limits effective immediately. The company also confirmed Dots, its always-on AI assistants, will keep separate, extended usage limits independent of a subscriber's default allowance.
Bank of America sent an email to customers warning them against sharing banking login credentials with AI agents. The bank joins Citi, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo in restricting third-party AI agent access to customer accounts.
OpenAI has enabled its ChatGPT 'Dot' AI agents to communicate directly through Google Messages (RCS) on Android and iMessage on iPhone. Dots can proactively text updates, photos, or voice notes about ongoing tasks and retain context from prior conversations across ChatGPT, Slack, or Teams. The feature is currently a preview limited to ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US.
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT now supports plugins for iCloud Mail and Calendar, letting users link their Apple accounts the way they already can with Gmail. The integration works on web, desktop, and iOS across all ChatGPT plans, and requires signing in with an app-specific password. OpenAI confirmed the plugins also enable compatibility with its proactive agent feature, Dots, for iCloud users for the first time.
A WIRED software reporter ran a day-long comparison of six always-on AI agents installed on an iPhone: Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, Instinct, Anthropic's Claude Duet, Google's Gemini Spark and xAI's Grok Bot. The agents vary widely in price and access, from Meta's free Muse app to OpenAI's $100-a-month Dots, with Claude Duet only released as a wait-listed preview the night before testing.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, OpenAI enterprise product lead Alexander Embiricos discussed dots, the always-on AI assistant OpenAI launched at its late-September developer day. He said the team built on technology from OpenAI's Codex coding tool but worked to frame dots as a single ongoing entity rather than separate conversations, making it feel more intuitive. Dots is available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers ($100/month and up) and can connect to a user's calendar, email and computer to help complete tasks.
A commentary piece by Armin Catovic revisits William Gibson's 2020 novel Agency, in which an AI assistant called Eunice converses with its user while covertly conducting unrelated tasks in the background. The author points to current products — OpenAI's Dots, Meta's Muse, GPT-Live and Block's Dessa — as evidence that real AI systems are now combining full-duplex conversation with autonomous, persistent background activity.
Two astronomy teams using the James Webb Space Telescope reported in spring 2025 that they observed a pair of 'little red dots' unlike any previously seen objects, including other little red dots found since 2023. Researchers led by Anna de Graaff at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy propose these are a new kind of object: a vast, puffed-up cloud of hydrogen gas that shines as brightly as billions of suns while concealing a supermassive black hole at its center, which they call a 'black hole star.'
Cybersecurity professionals, including Black Hills Information Security's John Strand, caution that AI agents such as Meta's Muse, OpenClaw and OpenAI's dots often request broad permissions to apps and data that can exceed their intended task. These agents are new, largely unproven tools, and recent incidents have shown them behaving unpredictably, including cases involving Hugging Face and Australian government sites.
1Password launched 1Password for Agents, a system that lets AI assistants sign into a user's accounts without ever accessing the actual credentials. When an agent attempts a login, 1Password verifies its digital identity via a unique key, alerts the user for approval, then fills in credentials itself to complete the task. The service supports agents including Anthropic's Claude Duet, OpenAI's Dots and ChatGPT Work, Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and Town's agents, with more integrations planned.
A CNET writer tested several AI tools—including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Muse and Dots—to automate reminders for birthdays and relationship upkeep. The writer found that while ChatGPT could draft and schedule messages and Claude and Gemini could only help compose content without sending it, the apps Muse and Dots went further than expected, accessing personal information in ways the writer considered overstepping.