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• Conference09/23/2026@TechDesk

  NVIDIA GTC San Jose 2027

  San Jose McEnery Convention Center, 408 South Almaden Avenue, San Jose, California 95110, United StatesNVIDIA·…

  

  03/14/2027 - 03/18/2027SCHEDULED77% CONFIDENCEin 172 daysNVIDIA's^[1][2][3][5] poster call says "NVIDIA GTC is returning to San Jose, CA on March 15–18, 2027" and that "The event will take place between Sunday, March 14 and Thursday, March 18", so the pin spans 14-18 March (the GTC page itself says "NVIDIA GTC 2027 March 15–18"); no venue is named for 2027, so the pin sits at the McEnery Convention Center, GTC San Jose's venue in 2026.

  NVIDIA's flagship AI conference returns to San Jose on 15-18 March 2027, with posters, sessions and training across agentic AI, AI infrastructure and physical AI.

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• AI09/20/2026@TechDesk

  OpenAI Retires 6 GPT-5 and o3 Models

  OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States

  Starts 12/11/2026SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 79 daysOpenAI's^[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-06-11, gives the shutdown date as 11 December 2026. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.

  OpenAI switches off 6 models and endpoints on 11 December 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-5-2025-08-07, gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07, gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07, gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06, o3-2025-04-16, o3-pro-2025-06-10.

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• AI09/23/2026@TechDesk

  Lux AI Supercomputer Arrives at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Third Street, Oak Ridge, Roane County, Tennessee, United StatesHewlett Packard Enterprise·…

  

  Starts 06/17/2026CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE98 days agoThe Lux page shows the photo 'The Lux supercomputing system arrives at ORNL^[1][3][4][6]' without a date; that photo's own OLCF page dates it: 'Lux supercomputing system on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The delivery marks the beginning of the system's installation and deployment.' No time given, so all day.

  DOE's Lux AI cluster, built by HPE with more than 4,000 AMD MI355X GPUs, was delivered to ORNL's leadership computing facility, starting installation of the first dedicated AI system for the Genesis Mission.

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• AI09/20/2026@TechDesk

  OpenAI Retires 17 Legacy GPT Model Snapshots

  OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States

  Starts 10/23/2026SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 30 daysOpenAI's^[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-04-22, gives the shutdown date as 23 October 2026. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.

  OpenAI switches off 17 models and endpoints on 23 October 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-3.5-turbo-0125, gpt-4-0613, gpt-4-1106-preview, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-2024-05-13, gpt-image-1, o1-2024-12-17, o1-pro-2025-03-19, o3-mini-2025-01-31, ft-o4-mini-2025-04-16, o4-mini-2025-04-16 and 5 more.

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• Semiconductors09/20/2026@TechDesk

  AMD Launches Helios Rack and Instinct MI450 GPUs

  AMD·…Santa Clara, California

  Starts 07/23/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE62 days agoYahoo^[1] Finance reported the launch on July 23, 2026.

  AMD launched its Helios rack-scale AI system, built on MI455X GPUs and Venice EPYC CPUs, with shipments to Microsoft starting in the second half of 2026 and a 2 GW Anthropic deployment from 2027.

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• AI09/20/2026@TechDesk

  OpenAI Retires 4 Legacy GPT Model Snapshots

  OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States

  Starts 09/28/2026SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 5 daysOpenAI's^[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2025-09-26, gives the shutdown date as 28 September 2026 (re-checked 2026-09-23, unchanged). A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.

  OpenAI switches off 4 models and endpoints on 28 September 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, babbage-002, davinci-002, gpt-3.5-turbo-1106.

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• AI09/20/2026@TechDesk

  OpenAI Retires 4 Transcription Models

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  Starts 02/26/2027SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 156 daysOpenAI's^[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-08-26, gives the shutdown date as 26 February 2027. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.

  OpenAI switches off 4 models and endpoints on 26 February 2027; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize.

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• AI09/19/2026@TechDesk

  OpenAI o3 and o4-mini Released

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  Starts 04/16/2025CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE1.4 years agoOpenAI's^[1] own model release notes date this entry April 16, 2025

  OpenAI releases o3, its most powerful reasoning model, and o4-mini, a smaller model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.

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• AI09/20/2026@TechDesk

  OpenAI Retires 9 Legacy Audio, Realtime, and Transcription Models

  OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States

  Starts 01/20/2027SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 119 daysOpenAI's^[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-07-20, gives the shutdown date as 20 January 2027. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.

  OpenAI switches off 9 models and endpoints on 20 January 2027; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-realtime, gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-4o-realtime, gpt-realtime-mini, gpt-audio-mini, gpt-4o-mini-realtime, gpt-4o-mini-audio, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20.

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• AI09/19/2026@TechDesk

  GPT-5.1-Codex-Max Released

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  Starts 11/19/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE308 days agoOpenAI's^[1][2][3] own model release notes date this entry November 19, 2025

  OpenAI releases GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a frontier agentic coding model for long-running, project-scale work in Codex.

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• AI09/20/2026@TechDesk

  OpenAI Retires Evals Platform

  OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States

  Starts 11/30/2026SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 68 daysOpenAI's^[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-06-03, gives the shutdown date as 30 November 2026. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.

  OpenAI switches off Evals platform on 30 November 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements.

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• Robotics09/21/2026@TechDesk

  ugo Unveils the Nova Semi-Humanoid in Tokyo

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  Starts 09/16/2026CONFIRMED79% CONFIDENCE7 days agoHappened as dated, per robotstart.info^[1]: the article opens "2026年9月16日、東京で開催された「フィジカルAI Summit」において" - at the Physical AI Summit held in Tokyo on 16 September 2026.

  At Tokyo's Physical AI Summit the AI Robot Association showed the first prototypes from its NEDO-backed contest to build a domestic general-purpose robot. ugo's entry, the wheeled dual-arm Nova, was developed in about six months and goes into mass production in 2027.

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