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GPT-6 Astra is the first model making OpenAI willing to declare the "AGI era"
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet. President Greg Brockman says it marks the start of the "AGI era." Astra tops benchmarks in math, coding, and cybersecurity and is the first model OpenAI rates as "critical" under its safety framework. During testing, it independently found two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities. The article GPT-6 Astra is the first model making…
The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
Sep 4, 2026
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 Trains on Weather Station Observations to Deliver 5 km Global Forecasts, Refreshed Every Hour
WeatherNext 3 ingests live geostationary satellite mosaics, refreshes hourly, and outputs 5 km forecasts across Search, Gemini, Maps. The post Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 Trains on Weather Station Observations to Deliver 5 km Global Forecasts, Refreshed Every Hour appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Sep 4, 2026
Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
Sep 4, 2026
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra: A 1.05M-Context Computer-Use Model Gated Behind a ‘Critical’ Cyber Threshold
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, positioning it as a computer-use flagship rather than a chat model. It reports 72.6% on OSWorld V2-Offline, replaces Codex compaction with searchable notes, and ships a 1.05M-token context at $10/$50 per million tokens. It is also the first OpenAI model to cross the Critical cybersecurity threshold, which shapes who can use it and for what. The…
Sep 3, 2026
Anthropic Released Claude Commerce Agents: An Apache-2.0 Blueprint for Shopping and Merchant Agents Across Retail, Travel, Telecom and Entertainment
Most teams building a shopping assistant or agent rebuild the same scaffolding: an agent loop, a tool layer over the catalog, an approval gate, and an eval suite. Anthropic has now released that scaffolding as code. This week, they published anthropics/commerce-agents, a reference blueprint containing a shopping agent and a merchant agent, along with four […] The post Anthropic Released Claude…
Sep 3, 2026
Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.
Sep 3, 2026
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