AI Daily: Wednesday, September 30, 2026

My Daily AI & Markets Briefing · Sep 30, 2026 · 9m

OpenAI closes a historic $30B funding round at a $1.4 trillion valuation — the largest private raise ever — while launching 'Dots' persistent agents and the cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol model. • Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 arrives 30% faster, but users are already crowdsourcing a 'LiveNerf' tracker to watch for post-launch capability downgrades. • Trump renames AI 'Super Intelligence' by executive order and major labs sign a White House self-regulation safety deal — with no enforcement mechanism attached. • AI insiders go public: current and former researchers at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic say…