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OpenAI's Dots, the AI Price War, and Uber's Retry Fix — September 30, 2026
An AI agent that keeps working after you close the chat window. OpenAI is also asking investors for thirty billion dollars more on top of everything it's already raised. More autonomy, more cost. We go through OpenAI's DevDay launch, the opposite pricing bets OpenAI and Anthropic are making, Uber burning its whole year's AI budget in four months, and the fix that stopped nine and a half million retries during a real outage.
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