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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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| 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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| 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.
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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.| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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%.| 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 … | 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.
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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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
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| Politico: |
A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed a US AI regulator in a call with Trump last month; another source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed concerns about plans for a national AI regulator in a previously unreported phone call …
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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.| 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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| 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 … | Valeriya Safronova / Financial Times: |
How some parents, mostly mothers, use AI to organize their families' schedules and automate mundane household tasks via apps like Ollie, Cozi Max, Town, and Ava — Parents are using AI to organise their families, from managing busy schedules to researching preschools, planning meals and grocery shopping.
LinkedIn: Laura Cunningham
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Beijing-based Moonshot files confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO; a source says the startup is in talks to raise a pre-IPO funding round at a $50B valuation — Moonshot AI, whose Kimi K3 open-source model has become a global hit, has filed confidentially an application for a Hong Kong initial …
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