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September 4, 2026, 10:45 AM
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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 …
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.
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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.
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.
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 …
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.
@artificialanlys:
Muse Spark 1.3 with max reasoning, in limited preview for partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Fable 5.1 and Opus 5
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 …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Beijing-based Moonshot is considering raising $3B to $5B in its planned Hong Kong IPO that could occur as soon as in 2026  —  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 …
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.

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: the US DOJ says states suing to block the WBD deal must post a “proper bond” to cover potential damages, backing Paramount's request for a $1.88B bond

Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: NBC's telecast of the Emmys drew 6.7M viewers on Monday night, down 9% from 2025's 7.4M on CBS, which was the awards show's best performance since 2021

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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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
Sam Sabin / Axios:
OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world
Politico:
A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed plans for a US AI regulator in an August call with Trump; a source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance
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
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft will open Xbox Cloud Gaming to non-Game Pass users via a pay-as-you-go model, with Ultimate subscribers limited to 15 hours per month of 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
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