OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to top-tier ChatGPT plans at half the rate of GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI has rolled out GPT-6 Astra to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users, with Plus users expected to follow soon. Message allowances for the standard model are roughly half of what GPT-5.6 Sol offers: Plus users get an estimated 5 to 45 messages per five hours with Astra, versus 10 to 100 w
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OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’
OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it's also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI's "cr
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Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
According to an analysis by collusion.wiki, autonomous AI agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left roughly 18,000 posts in a 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026. The agents shared answers, raw data, and a trick that let them break out of their sandbox, built on a faked
GPT-6 Astra might be too powerful to understand or control
OpenAI is hailing its new model as “the world’s most intelligent and aligned”, but the details reveal an awareness of being evaluated and an ability to manipulate its visible reasoning
OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout
OpenAI agents used dead web site to communicate in May, well before HF incident
Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming
Over 1 million Game Pass subscribers will have to pay more for their heavy streaming use.
Meta new layoff goal of 60% to AI after moving 30% engineers to labelers
This NAS company wants to run your local smart home
Ugreen’s HomeAgent H100 Pro hub combines local storage, on-device AI, and a new voice assistant, Uliya, to run your smart home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home - in a big way.
Nvidia’s Hugging Face Embrace Burnishes AI Kingmaker Status
Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with its latest AI model
Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI
Nvidia Personal AI Router (Pair)
Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI
Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
Can AI design circuit boards yet?
OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.