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AI Developer News: OpenAI’s Dots, Claude Sonnet 4.5’s Retirement Date, and This Week’s Launches

Weekly AI developer news roundup: OpenAI Dots agents, Claude Sonnet 4.5 deprecation, xAI Team Bots — October 2026

Published 2 October 2026 — covering AI developer news from 26 September to 2 October 2026. Claims below are attributed to the companies and outlets cited so you can verify them yourself. If last week was about models, this week was about agents — and about who takes responsibility for what they do. OpenAI shipped … Read more