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GPT-6.1 Sol Ships, Instinct Raises $1B, Shopify Canvas Debuts, Reddit Closes API: 16 Must-Know Startup & AI Stories (October 4, 2026)

AI startup news moved fast in the week ending October 4, 2026. OpenAI shipped a much cheaper frontier model and shelved a riskier one. A personal-assistant startup raised a billion dollars. Shopify showed what building a store by chat looks like. Reddit said it will close its public API to AI scrapers. If you build …

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