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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” …
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| 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.
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| The Deep View: |
OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, matching Anthropic's pricing for Claude Fable 5.1 — OpenAI's now infamous model that was part of the Hugging Face breach is about to be loose in the world, but with new safeguards.| 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.
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra the “world's best computer use model”; in tests, it booked DMV appointments and searched job listings faster than the average person — OpenAI leaders think the company's next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
At the G20 summit, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk joined Trump officials in lobbying policymakers against heavy AI regulations — Company bosses, officials say advances in technology are already making AI safer than under government regulations
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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
All G20 nations unanimously endorse the non-binding Carolina Principles, a US-proposed framework calling for a lighter touch to governing emerging tech like AI — Representatives from the world's largest economies unanimously agreed to adopt guidelines proposed by the US that call … | 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.
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| 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.
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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
DOD's Emil Michael says Anthropic is still a designated supply chain risk, a day after Howard Lutnick said it resolved its issues with the Trump administration — US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Anthropic PBC has resolved its long-running issues with the Trump administration but a top Pentagon official begs to differ.
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| 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.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft AI debuts MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model that it says beats Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe, at $0.10/audio hour through 2026 — Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour of audio. — That figure deserves a pause. … Thursday's early-bird price cuts that by roughly 72%.| 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. …
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| 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.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $40B+ pre-money valuation, lower than the $50B+ valuation it sought last year — Thinking Machines Lab, the AI developer led by ex-OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, is in talks to raise at least $1 billion … | 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.
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based smart ring maker Ultrahuman raised $70M, including $5M in debt, a source says at a $365M valuation, and is working with Qualcomm on a new ring — Ultrahuman, an Indian startup best known for making smart rings, has raised $70 million in a new funding round that includes backing …
More: CNET, Inc42, and Tom's Guide
| 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.| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world — - The $1 billion will come in the form of expanded subsidized access to models, training, technical support and partnerships for participating organizations.
More: OpenAI
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Crusoe signed a ~$13B, five-year deal with Jane Street to provide GPUs and other infrastructure for AI training and inference via its cloud platform — Crusoe, a data center upstart with contracts to supply AI computing power to the likes of Meta Platforms Inc. and Oracle Corp. …
More: Reuters
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Adobe names Customer Experience Orchestration president Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, effective December 1, replacing Shantanu Narayen, who becomes executive chair — Adobe on Thursday named Anil Chakravarthy as its next CEO, succeeding Shantanu Narayen, who announced he would step down earlier this year.
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| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
Oura files for a US IPO, reporting a $924.3M net loss on $1.21B in revenue for the nine months ended June 30, vs. a $182.8M net loss on $697.6M a year earlier — Health and fitness ring-maker Oura Inc. filed for an initial public offering, showing soaring revenue as well as increasing losses.| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes — As the artificial intelligence companies Anthropic and OpenAI prepare to go public, the question around Silicon Valley is which investors will win big.| 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.| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia says the RTX Spark N1X launches in October in two configurations: a 20-core CPU with a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU and an 18-core CPU with a 5,120-core GPU — Nvidia is finally getting more specific about the launch of the RTX Spark. The chip, which it is now officially calling the …
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