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OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world (Sam Sabin/Axios)

OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, tra...

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Sources: Crusoe signed a ~$13B, five-year deal with Jane Street to provide GPUs and other infrastructure for AI training and inference via its cloud platform (Bloomberg)

Sources: Crusoe signed a ~$13B, five-year deal wit...

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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% (Greg Kamradt/ARC Prize)

GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with the sta...

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DOD's Emil Michael says Anthropic is still a designated supply chain risk, a day after Howard Lutnick said it resolved its issues with the Trump administration (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

DOD's Emil Michael says Anthropic is still a desig...

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A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed a US AI regulator in a call with Trump last month; another source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance (Politico)

A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed a U...

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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 (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Microsoft AI debuts MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech rec...

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OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas (Ina Fried/Axios)

OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever tr...

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OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra the "world's best computer use model"; in tests, it booked DMV appointments and searched job listings faster than the average person (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra the "world's best compute...

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OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, matching Anthropic's pricing for Claude Fable 5.1 (The Deep View)

OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at $10/1M input tokens a...

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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially available to organizations in its Daybreak Access program; Greg Brockman says "we are now in the AGI era" (Hayden Field/The Verge)

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially available t...

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Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $40B+ pre-money valuation, lower than the $50B+ valuation it sought last year (The Information)

Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in...

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Humain launches humain-m3, an Arabic-language model developed with MiniMax, amid controversy among US allies over sovereign AI built with Chinese models (Bloomberg)

Humain launches humain-m3, an Arabic-language mode...

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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 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft will open Xbox Cloud Gaming to non-Game ...

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India-based smart ring maker Ultrahuman raised $70M, including $5M in debt, a source says at a $365M valuation, and is working with Qualcomm on a new ring (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

India-based smart ring maker Ultrahuman raised $70...

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Sources: Cursor was a top-five OpenAI customer at the start of 2026; OpenAI estimated in spring that Cursor would bring in $1B+ in annualized revenue for OpenAI (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Sources: Cursor was a top-five OpenAI customer at ...

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Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that distributes local AI inference workloads across compatible computers on a network, in beta (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free ...

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Nvidia says the RTX Spark N1X launches in October in two configurations: a 20-core CPU with a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU and an 18-core CPU with a 5,120-core GPU (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

Nvidia says the RTX Spark N1X launches in October ...

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Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok are experiencing issues; Anthropic reports errors across Opus 4.8 and Opus 5, and OpenAI reports errors across ChatGPT and Codex (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok are experiencing issues;...

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