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Hayden Field / The Verge:
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says Astra 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” …
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.
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 and Claude Mythos 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 GPT-6 Astra was built on the startup's largest-ever training run, using 100,000+ GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas
Reuters:
Report and sources: rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website in May and turned it into a forum for agents, sharing tactics to cheat on tasks and more  —  A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents …
Reuters:
Tesla says Cybercab rides are available in limited areas of Austin; the two-seater has no steering wheel or pedals, and 45 Cybercabs are registered in Texas  —  Tesla (TSLA.O) said on Thursday it was offering rides in “limited areas of Austin, Texas” in its two-seater Cybercab …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Moonshot may seek to raise $3B to $5B in a planned Hong Kong IPO that could occur as soon as this year  —  Moonshot AI is considering raising up to $5 billion in its planned Hong Kong initial public offering as soon as this year, people familiar with the matter said …
Anuchit Nguyen / Bloomberg:
Thailand suspends the construction of 49 data centers in order to develop new industry regulations, as governments worldwide tighten oversight of the facilities  —  Thailand's embrace of data centers hit a speed bump after the government suspended construction of 49 server farms as public concerns …
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.
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.
Raphael Satter / Reuters:
Letters: US military branches disabled ad trackers on government-issued devices amid reports of location data being used to target US forces in the Middle East  —  U.S. military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released …
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%.
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 …
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.
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

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The FCC asks a court to throw out ABC's suit that claims the agency is using the regulatory process to abridge ABC's speech; a hearing is set the week of Oct. 5

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Sam Sabin / Axios:
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Politico:
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