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Hayden Field / The Verge:
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says it is a “generational leap” and “we are now in the AGI era”  —  OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra.  The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” …
Ina Fried / Axios:
OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas  —  OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-6 Astra, which president Greg Brockman called a “generational leap” and said could eventually be seen as the arrival of artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
Greg Kamradt / ARC Prize:
GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with the standard harness and 99.9% with a new provider adapter harness; Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2%, and GPT-5.6 Sol 7.8%  —  Summary  — GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% for $26K on ARC-AGI-3 Semi-Private with our Standard harness, and 99.9% for $19K with a Provider Adapter harness.
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest acquisition yet, after it paid $20B to buy assets from chipmaker Groq in December 2025  —  Nvidia has officially agreed to buy open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft will open Xbox Cloud Gaming to non-Game Pass users via a pay-as-you-go model; Ultimate subs will be limited to 15 hours per month of cloud gaming  —  Microsoft is trying once again to tempt people without an Xbox into its ecosystem. … Microsoft says it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming …
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok are now operational after widespread outages on Thursday  —  A widespread outage has taken out popular AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok.  —  Update 8:49am PT: Services appear to be coming back online, with user reports dropping.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that distributes local AI inference workloads across compatible computers on a network, in beta  —  PAIR is designed to get your desktop and laptop working together on local AI tasks when not in use.
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Sources: Cursor was a top-five OpenAI customer at the start of 2026; OpenAI estimated in spring that Cursor would bring in $1B+ in annualized revenue for OpenAI  —  OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned.
Anil Dash:
Modern venture capital has transformed into an unchecked oligarchy, or “Cancer Capital”, where mega-firms managing $50B+ live off fees and shift risk elsewhere  —  We really, really need to talk about venture capital.  Because it's not “venture capital” anymore.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage  —  The company also announced a new Eufy video doorbell with VR features and a window camera.
Bloomberg:
Humain launches humain-m3, an Arabic-language model developed with MiniMax, amid controversy among US allies over sovereign AI built with Chinese models  —  Saudi Arabia's artificial intelligence company Humain has built a national AI platform based on an open model from Chinese lab MiniMax Group Inc. …
More: Unite.AI
Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:
TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be up nearly 400% YoY; Apple is not expected to pass on the full increase to customers  —  A new market intelligence report suggests that Apple will be paying four times more for iPhone 18 Pro memory than it did for last year's model.
Farah Stockman / New York Times:
The Trump administration imposes tariffs of up to 100% on foreign drones, including 100% on models over 55lbs or with thermal imaging, in a bid to thwart China  —  In addition, the F.C.C. is weighing stiff restrictions on common drone technology such as thermal imaging and aerosol spraying.
Meir Orbach / CTech:
Upwind, which filters false security alerts in cloud apps so companies can focus on actual risks, raised ~$300M at a ~$3.8B valuation, up from ~$1.5B in January  —  The Israeli cloud security company was valued at $1.5 billion when it raised $250 million in January, and has since attracted fresh backing …
Dawn Lim / Bloomberg:
How organized opposition that toppled a $100B data center project in Virginia's Prince William County became a blueprint for data center backlash in the US  —  Organized opposition toppled a $100 billion project from developers backed by two of the world's biggest private equity companies.

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News says Maria Bartiromo is no longer with Fox; Bartiromo's Mornings with Maria will be retitled Morning with Fox Business and employ a rotation of anchors

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
An Athletic probe finds journalist Dianna Russini violated standards due to her relationship with an NFL coach but finds scant evidence it impacted coverage

Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Feminist icon and Ms. magazine co-founder Gloria Steinem died at age 92 in her NYC home; she co-founded New York magazine in 1968 and authored 11 books

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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
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