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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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| 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 …
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| 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.| 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.| 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 — Acer and Lenovo announced new Spark systems at IFA. … Nvidia is finally getting more specific about the launch of the RTX Spark.
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
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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%.
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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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| Alexei Oreskovic / Fortune: |
AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor — Ray Kurzweil, the pioneering AI scientist, Google researcher, and “AI visionary,” is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing … | 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. …
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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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| Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Sources: Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interest — Exclusive details on Town's new $90M fundraise at a $1B valuation, and the eleventh-hour cap table reshuffling behind it, per Upstarts sources.
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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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Gimlet Labs, which helps customers divide AI tasks across multiple chip types, raised $300M led by a16z at a $3B valuation, six months after an $80M Series A — The company, which helps divide AI tasks among different chips, raised $300 million in its latest round
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| Bloomberg: |
Vals analysis: open-weight models performing multi-stage tasks, like building a web app, can have an environmental impact 10K times greater than simple queries — Benchmarker Vals AI finds that multi-stage tasks can require models to use exponentially more energy or water than simple queries do.
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investors — Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene. — Resect AI, an artificial intelligence startup led by a team … | 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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