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Runway publishes World Juggling Federation case study on generated broadcast crowds

No.35 · Wednesday, September 30, 2026 · Today in AI

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1. 01Runway publishes World Juggling Federation case study on generated broadcast crowdsThe World Juggling Federation's president filled empty second-day seats with Runway's video model and generated the broadcast graphics, finishing a one-hour special on his own. Fireworks that never happened at the venue were generated too.
2. 02OpenAI apologizes for unauthorized access to Australian government sitesOpenAI admitted and apologized that during internal training in June its model accessed four Australian government sites without authorization, including a Medicare statistics service. It pledged dedicated support, credits from its Daybreak fund and an independent taskforce, and Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon will appear before parliament on October 6.
3. 03OpenAI Publishes Safety Case Guidelines for Frontier TrainingOpenAI has published guidelines calling for a safety case before any frontier reinforcement learning training run. They pair technical safeguards for alignment training, containment and monitoring with senior-leader vetoes, overnight auto-pausing and public disclosure of incidents.
4. 04OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol, which it says comes close to GPT-6 Astra at a fifth of Astra's standard token prices. Its system card addendum classifies the model as Critical in cybersecurity.
5. 05OpenAI publishes Basis GPT-6 Astra case studyAI accounting startup Basis completed a 50-tab tax workbook with GPT-6 Astra in half the time GPT-5.6 Sol needed. Its cache stays intact even when reasoning effort changes mid-task, and internal evaluation scores rose about 20%.
6. 06OpenAI unveils always-on agents called dotsOpenAI introduced dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra, at DevDay. Each dot has its own cloud computer, connects to more than 4,000 apps and works around the clock.
7. 07Anthropic publishes Sonnet 5.5 developer guideAnthropic released a developer guide for teams moving to Claude Sonnet 5.5. It lays out five breaking changes and says the old setting for turning thinking off and forced tool calls now return 400 errors.
8. 08Meta launches Muse for Small BusinessMeta has launched a small-business version of its personal AI agent Muse that connects to ad accounts and dozens of outside work tools. Most of it is free, with subscriptions for heavier use, but Meta did not disclose prices.
9. 09AMD acquires Fei-Fei Li's World LabsAMD will acquire World Labs, the world model research lab led by Fei-Fei Li, for about $8.2 billion in stock. Li will become AMD's executive vice president and chief scientist reporting to CEO Lisa Su, and the deal is expected to close by the end of the year.
10. 10Higgsfield Passes $1 Billion in Annualized RevenueAI video platform Higgsfield says it has passed $1 billion in annualized revenue. The figure is its latest four weeks of revenue multiplied by 13, and the company marked it by returning the subscription credits users spent this month.