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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 (www.wired.com)
17 days ago

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially available to organizations in its Daybreak Access program; Greg Brockman says “we are now in the AGI era” (www.theverge.com)
17 days ago

OpenAI's New Reasoning Technique Alarms AI Safety Experts (it.slashdot.org)
17 days ago AI

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 (www.theinformation.com)
17 days ago

Humain launches humain-m3, an Arabic-language model developed with MiniMax, amid controversy among US allies over sovereign AI built with Chinese models (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago China AI

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 (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago India

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 (www.theverge.com)
17 days ago Microsoft Xbox

Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Open Source Audio Editor But Leaves Some Features Behind (news.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Open Source

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 (www.wired.com)
17 days ago

Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that distributes local AI inference workloads across compatible computers on a network, in beta (www.theverge.com)
17 days ago AI Nvidia

Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, Its Third Flash Model In Six Weeks (tech.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Google

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 (www.tomshardware.com)
17 days ago Nvidia

Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling (yro.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Google

Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok are experiencing issues; Anthropic reports errors across Opus 4.8 and Opus 5, and OpenAI reports errors across ChatGPT and Codex (9to5google.com)
17 days ago

Critical Elementor Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
17 days ago WordPress

Anthropic confirms Claude is down, multiple models affected (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
17 days ago

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down ahead of 'Astra' model launch (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
17 days ago

Microsoft: KB5120998 mouse reset bug affects only non-English PCs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
17 days ago Microsoft

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 (www.calcalistech.com)
17 days ago

PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes (www.nytimes.com)
17 days ago

Sources: Saudi AI company Humain is planning to raise an initial $2.5B fund to help finance data center capacity of 250 MW in Saudi Arabia (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

Your Employee's Password Appeared in an Infostealer Log. Now What? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
17 days ago

Munich-based Atira, which aims to use AI to automate the parsing and generation of complex bid proposals, raised a $15M seed led by Accel and a $2.5M pre-seed (fortune.com)
17 days ago AI Munich

10 Extinct Creatures That Aren't What We Thought (listverse.com)
17 days ago

HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle, which let users choose between Gemini or ChatGPT as their assistant, in North America, Europe, the UK, and Australia (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago Europe Australia U.S. HTC

Perplexity Will Open Source Its Faster Lily AI Engine For Apple Silicon (entertainment.slashdot.org)
17 days ago AI Apple Open Source

TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be ~400% higher than a year prior but Apple won't pass on the full cost to customers (9to5mac.com)
17 days ago iPhone Apple

Microsoft says KB5120998 Windows update resets desktop settings (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
17 days ago Microsoft

Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest purchase after it paid $20B for Groq assets at the end of last year (www.cnbc.com)
17 days ago Nvidia Asset

PlusAI, which is operating autonomous freight routes in Texas with trucking company Ryder, plans to go public in a SPAC deal at an $800M pre-money valuation (www.reuters.com)
17 days ago Texas

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