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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plans — Update: A day later, GPT-6 Astra is rolling out to Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plan. This follows other new model releases before Plus customers on the $20/month plan gain access.
More: OpenAI, Financial Express, The Tech Portal, TechEBlog, Tom's Guide, SiliconANGLE, Mashable, and 9to5Google. X: @panzer
| Celia Ford / Transformer: |
OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model — OpenAI is hailing its new model as “the world's most intelligent and aligned”, but the details reveal an awareness of being evaluated …
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| Reuters: |
Researchers 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.| Matt Shumer / Something Big Is Happening: |
Review: GPT-6 Astra can adeptly use tools like Unreal Engine to build complex environments, such as a civilization with Unreal's autonomous MetaHuman characters — Everyday work, ambitious experiments, and the Manager Loop. … For nearly a year, OpenAI models were my unquestioned default …
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Forums: r/singularity and r/aiwars
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
By declaring that GPT-6 Astra has ushered in the AGI era, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing — With ‘GPT-6 Astra’, AGI is here! Congrats, everyone! — It's a question as old as time. Or at least as old as Terminator 2. Is AGI here?
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| 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.
More: The New Stack, Simon Willison's Weblog, The Rundown AI, WinBuzzer, The Decoder, and Trending Topics
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's September 9 “Surprise and Shine” event: a foldable iPhone, an iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, Apple Watches 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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| 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.| 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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| Reuters: |
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LinkedIn: Tom Orr, Renil Gangwal, Marc Williams, Brandon Goh, and Ismail Guneydas
| 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: Gizmodo, International Business Times, The Independent, TechCrunch, IJR News, and NewsCord
| 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 …
More: Travel And Tour World
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DeepSeek plans to deploy 160K+ Huawei Ascend 950DT chips in 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 in Inner Mongolia …
More: Livemint, Wall Street Journal, Wccftech, The Information, Huawei Central, and The Decoder
| 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: SFist and Wikimedia Foundation
LinkedIn: Brooke Vibber. Bluesky: @robertcruickshank.com. Mastodon: @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com and @wwu@social.wikiworkersunited …
| 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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| 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
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Nvidia becomes a leading global strategic tech investor, 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to US companies, hoping to safeguard access to advanced AI chips beyond April 2027 — Executives at Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence firm G42 have held exploratory talks over potentially selling a majority stake …
More: CoinGape
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest $250M in India over three to four years, for a total investment of $500M+ since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics — Krafton, the South Korean gaming company behind titles including PUBG and Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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