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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” …
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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 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.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
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| 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 …
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| Dylan Freedman / New York Times: |
How OpenAI limited METR's probe into the Hugging Face incident, dictating terms and restricting its scope to the single week when agents attacked Hugging Face — A nonprofit's study of how OpenAI's A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face's infrastructure wasn't allowed to look at the incident's full scope.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's September 9 “Surprise and Shine” event: foldable iPhone, iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, Apple Watch refresh with ceramic cases, and more — From the foldable iPhone to a touch-screen MacBook, here's what to expect on Sept. 9 and beyond.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
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| Reuters: |
Tesla says Cybercab rides are available in limited areas of Austin; Cybercab is a two-seater with no steering wheel or pedals, and 45 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 …
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
The NHTSA opens a probe into Tesla's decision to launch its new Cybercab on public roads in Austin with no steering wheel or pedals — The United States' top automotive safety regulator has opened an investigation into Tesla decision to launch its new Cybercab on public roads with no steering wheel or pedals.
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| CNBC: |
Q&A with Jensen Huang and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue on Nvidia acquiring Hugging Face, scaling the open model ecosystem, closed AI vs. open AI, and more — Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC exclusive interview with Nvidia Founder & CEO Jensen Huang … | Wall Street Journal: |
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Wikimedia Foundation workers vote 158-14 to join the CWA, which will represent 200+ US employees in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications — More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America.
More: Wikimedia Foundation. Bluesky: @robertcruickshank.com. Mastodon: @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com and @wwu@social.wikiworkersunited …
| Artificial Analysis: |
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index: GPT-6 Astra scored 67, roughly equal to Claude Opus 5, Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.3, but trailing leader Fable 5.1's 70 — Fable 5.1 in Claude Code leads the Index with a score of 70. … Various effort levels of the model occupy the Pareto frontier of token efficiency.
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| @artificialanlys: |
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| Anuchit Nguyen / Bloomberg: |
Thailand suspends the construction of 49 server farms to write new industry regulations, set for October, as governments worldwide tighten data center oversight — Thailand's embrace of data centers hit a speed bump after the government suspended construction of 49 server farms as public concerns …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, a “distraction-free Windows experience” for developers to run 30B+ parameter models locally on devices with 64GB+ of memory — The first Project Zenith devices ship with AMD's Ryzen AI Halo chips. … Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith.
More: Windows Blog, Thurrott, Engadget, Windows Central, and WinCentral
| 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 …
More: International Business Times, TechCrunch, The Independent, and IJR News
| Financial Times: |
Some European defense officials are pushing back on efforts to cut US tech reliance, warning it could leave Europe with inferior systems and greater cyber risks — Brussels' effort to reduce US technology dependence could create greater risks elsewhere, defence officials and contractors say
Forums: r/neoliberal
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, and Mubadala Capital also invested — Crusoe, a cloud-computing provider and data center developer doing business with OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. …
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DeepSeek plans to use 160K+ of Huawei's Ascend 950DT chips at an Inner Mongolia data center, which would create one of the largest Huawei chip clusters — DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei Technologies Co.'s top accelerators at a massive data center it's building …
More: Wall Street Journal, The Information, and The Decoder
| The Information: |
Sources: a16z told investors Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise $5B-$6B led by Accel at a $40B+ pre-money valuation; Nvidia is expected to invest ~$2.5B — Thinking Machines Lab, the AI developer led by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is in talks to raise between $5 billion … | 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.| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Nvidia becomes a leading global strategic tech backer, with the value of its equity investments up 10x in the past year to $99B, as it bolsters the AI sector — Nvidia has become one of the world's largest corporate backers of tech companies as the value of its equity investments soared …
More: Financial Express, Business Insider, Quartz, and Unite.AI
| 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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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
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