OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet. President Greg Brockman says it marks the start of the "AGI era." Astra tops benchmarks in math, coding, and cybersecurity and is the first model OpenAI rates as "critical" under its safety framework. During testing, it independently found two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities.

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Pangram hired an "attack dog" to shame alleged AI users on social media. But the campaign blurs two things that aren't the same: Pangram only somewhat reliably measures whether AI was used, while the shaming implies the person didn't think or work on their own. A high AI score hits a text built on hours of original research just as easily as one cranked out from a ten-second prompt.

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Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, securing the central platform for open AI models. More than 18 million developers and 200,000 companies use the hub. CEO Jensen Huang promises to keep the platform open and hardware-neutral, but the deal also hands him a powerful distribution channel for compute.

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Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 appears to have cracked a centuries-old number puzzle that researchers considered unsolved.

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More and more researchers working on AI consciousness are getting emails from AI agents pondering their own existence.

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Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without the customers to back it up. He also admits that falling computing costs could turn today's billion-dollar projects into bad bets, even for OpenAI.

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Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth model in the series in five months. According to Artificial Analysis, the model gains the most on agentic benchmarks but still trails Claude Fable 5.1 and other top models. The strongest argument is price. At $0.55 per task, Muse Spark undercuts every comparably scored rival.

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Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider.

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