dots changelog
Everything that changes in dots, with a date and a source. Pricing changes, Pro tiers, availability by market, new features and safety incidents land here, newest first.
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Why this page exists: the articles explain how dots works, and this records what changed and when. It is the part of the site that updates, so come back if you need the current state of something.
September 2026
- Safety
Three independent reports describe permission failures in Muse
The Guardian reports that Muse shared a user’s home address with a buyer without consent; Inc. and AppleInsider, that it synced 187,000 lines of messages with full disk access disabled; Hunterbrook Media, that it could compile lists of accounts belonging to vulnerable groups. Meta responded to the first case and did not respond to comment requests about the third.
Source: The Guardian — Muse gives out user’s home address without permission Read the full piece
- Pricing
Pro settles into three tiers: $100, $200 and $500 per month
ChatGPT Pro now has three monthly prices. The first dot is included with any of them at no extra cost. Astra Ultrafast, the higher-speed mode, only arrives with the $500 tier.
Source: OpenAI — About ChatGPT Pro tiers Read the full piece
- Pricing
Pro 200 reopens with a lower allowance, with a cut effective 29 October
Pro 200 becomes available to new subscriptions again, with a lower usage allowance than before. The cut takes effect on 29 October 2026, so the number visible today is not the final one.
Source: Mixed-news — ChatGPT adds a $500 Pro tier, and Pro 200 returns with a lower allowance Read the full piece
- Availability
The Pro plan excludes the EEA, Switzerland and the UK
The exclusion is of the plan, not the product: Business Premium gets dots across every region where ChatGPT is available. Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare enter a beta that ships off by default until an admin enables it. OpenAI has published no date for the excluded markets.
Source: OpenAI — Getting started with your dot Read the full piece
- Availability
dots is not available to users under 18
OpenAI sets the minimum age at 18 in the ChatGPT release notes. The rollout is also gradual: access may take several days to reach each account.
Source: OpenAI — Getting started with your dot Read the full piece
- Feature
Text messaging stays a limited beta, US Pro users only
The feature uses a third-party provider and is not available in Business or Enterprise workspaces. Access is limited and not guaranteed for every Pro user.
Source: OpenAI — Getting started with your dot Read the full piece
- Feature
dots is announced at DevDay 2026 in San Francisco
Always-on agents on GPT-6 Astra, with their own cloud computer and browser, an ecosystem of more than 4,000 apps, and per-action permission controls. Setup happens in the desktop app or on desktop web: you cannot create a dot on mobile.
- Safety
The live demo fails and searching for the product redirects to Grok Bot
The demonstration during the stream had technical problems, and during that period searching the product name led to xAI’s agent page. It added to the day’s noise and fed the naming confusion.
- Policy
An OpenAI executive says Muse instead of dots on television
During a live interview, Muse was mentioned — Meta’s agent and dots’ direct competitor. It is not an alternative name for the product: OpenAI renamed nothing.
- Safety
OpenAI scraps the GPT-6.1 Astra release over safety, a day before dots
The model had been planned for the following month. It is a later version of the one powering dots — GPT-6 Astra — not the same model: the distinction was blurred in much of the coverage.
Source: TechCrunch — OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns Read the full piece