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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.| 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 — 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: |
| 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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| 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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| CNBC: |
Q&A with Jensen Huang and Clément Delangue on the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal, scaling open-source models, the rumored $1B talent retention plan, and more — Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC exclusive interview with Nvidia Founder & CEO Jensen Huang …
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Wikimedia Foundation staffers vote 158-14 to join the CWA, which will represent 200+ US employees across 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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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 … | 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.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, with Mubadala Capital participating — Crusoe, a cloud-computing provider and data center developer doing business with OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. …
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| 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%.| 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 …
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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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| 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 …
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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.
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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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| 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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