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Castrol has launched Castrol CORE, an integrated thermal management solution for data centers, to meet rising AI and HPC demand.

• •The new solution was announced in response to increasing demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC).
• •It provides end-to-end thermal management support covering everything from early design stages to daily operations.
• •The solution aims to help customers address the increasingly complex cooling requirements of data centers.

US President Trump announced an agreement to address AI safety through self-regulation by major AI developers rather than government regulation, prioritizing the promotion of development.

• •On September 29 (local time), President Trump revealed that major AI developers had agreed to handle AI safety measures voluntarily.
• •He clarified a policy prioritizing the promotion of AI development based on corporate self-regulation rather than strengthened government regulations.
• •Reports indicate that the establishment of an oversight committee is also under consideration.

Reports indicate that AI development company Cognition has surpassed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

OpenAI made over 20 announcements at a developer event, including ChatGPT Space, the cloud agent dots, and the new GPT-6.1 Sol model.

• •OpenAI held its announcements at OpenAI DevDay 2026 on September 29, 2026.
• •The announcements covered more than 20 topics related to ChatGPT, Codex, and AI models.
• •Introductions included ChatGPT Space for team collaboration and dots, a continuously running cloud agent.

Amazon Bedrock's managed knowledge bases have been updated to support connectors for Salesforce and Zendesk.

Ricoh Japan updated its AI meeting minutes service, toruno, to enhance summarization features, add cloud integrations, and support real-time translation.

• •Enhanced AI summarization features and integration functions with kintone, OneDrive, and Google Drive were added.
• •The service now supports real-time translation, targeting use in diverse business scenarios.
• •Ricoh Japan announced this update on the 29th.

OpenAI announced GPT-6.1 Sol, a new model offering near-Astra performance at one-fifth the price, reducing operational costs through lower cache fees.

• •Fees for cached inputs repeatedly referenced by agents are set at 95% off the standard rate, significantly reducing long-running operational costs.
• •GPT-6.1 Sol is characterized by providing intelligence approaching Astra at one-fifth the price.
• •It is available across ChatGPT plans and Codex, and developers can call it as "gpt-6.1-sol" via the OpenAI API.

Google published four design patterns from top AI agent contest entries, noting that many submissions claiming to be multi-agent systems were actually just single-model prompt chains.

• •Google published four design patterns observed in top entries of an AI agent development contest.
• •Many entries claimed to be 'multi-agent systems,' but some were actually just single models connecting prompts.
• •The analysis identified commonalities in 'winning designs' deemed effective among thousands of submissions.

An introductory article summarizing the updates announced by AWS during the week of September 21.

Snowflake advocates for the 'Agentic Enterprise,' explaining the importance of data infrastructure and governance, featuring practical cases from Nissan and Fujifilm and an interview with Anthropic.

• •Christian Kleinmann, EVP at Snowflake, proposed the 'Agentic Enterprise' as a vision for integrating AI into the core of business operations.
• •Shizuka Hirakawa, CDIO at Nissan, discussed design decisions for a data infrastructure exceeding 30 petabytes, while Masatake Sugimoto of Fujifilm spoke about designing controls for global AI deployment.
• •An interview with Natalie Mead of Anthropic highlighted guidelines for responsible AI utilization and starting with the most difficult workloads.