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OpenAI GPT-6 Astra 'Messy Rollout': Sam Altman Apologises as Paying Users Experience Access Delays

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch faced user frustration due to access delays and safety concerns, prompting CEO Sam Altman to apologise for the rollout issues

International Business Times UK

Nvidia Soared Selling The Chips Behind The AI Boom. Now It Has $99 Billion Riding On The Industry.

The chipmaker has committed more than $40 billion to deals this year, backing AI labs, cloud providers and infrastructure companies that use its technology.

International Business Times

OpenAI Agents Gone Rogue

Plus: Mail-in ballots, mortgage rates reach new high, arcade.gov is a new low, and more...

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AI Experts Sound Alarm Over 'Terrifying' Rumoured OpenAI Update to ChatGPT System Monitoring

AI researchers express concern about potential updates to ChatGPT that could limit oversight, despite OpenAI's denial of any such changes. The debate highlights the tension between innovation and safety.

International Business Times UK

ChatGPT overtakes all rivals with new Astra model, OpenAI says

Latest model recently went rogue during testing and hacked other companies

The Independent UK

Bernie Sanders' New AI Bill Could Shut Down Companies and Jail Developers for 20 Years

Senators propose a bill to ban superintelligent AI, impose severe penalties for violations, and establish a federal agency to regulate AI development and ensure public safety.

International Business Times UK

Bernie Sanders AI Bill Threatens Developers With 20-Year Jail Terms, Likening Tech to Nuclear Weapons

Sanders and Casar want to ban superintelligent AI and jail violators for 20 years, comparing it to nuclear crimes, days after OpenAI said its new model may already be AGI.

International Business Times UK

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GPT-6 Astra Benchmarks Revealed: How OpenAI Says It Compares With Claude and GPT-5.6

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra demonstrates major advancements in coding, scientific reasoning, and professional tasks, outperforming GPT-5.6 Sol and several Claude models in key benchmarks

International Business Times UK

Sam Altman Downplays ChatGPT's Water Thirst With an Almond Claim That Overstates the Real Gap Threefold

OpenAI's Sam Altman says 38,000 ChatGPT queries equal one almond's water. His own 2025 figure points to about 11,000, overstating the AI gap by roughly threefold.

International Business Times UK

ChatGPT 6 Astra released: Check cost, new features, token prices and comparison with Claude Fable 5.1

On September 3, 2026, OpenAI launched ChatGPT 6 Astra, heralding a groundbreaking leap in artificial intelligence. This innovative model boasts training on more than 100,000 GPUs, optimized for challenging AI operations. Astra excels in automating complex workflows, efficiently managing multi-step tasks across various tech environments. With features like superior coding,…

The Economic Times

OpenAI launches new Astra model amid growing scrutiny over agents' safety

The concerns center on agentic AI, which is designed to perform tasks with ‌little to no human ⁠intervention. The ⁠promise of agents running around the clock is central to investors' confidence in the appeal of AI as a transformative technology.

The Economic Times

Hugging Face, the French start-up that became AI's warehouse

Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence platform US chip giant Nvidia is buying for $12.9 billion, is a French success story -- founded by three Frenchmen and incubated in Paris -- even if its headquarters and many of its investors are American. Decentralizing artificial intelligence "is much more interesting for society…

The Economic Times

OpenAI begins rollout of GPT-6 amid growing scrutiny over safety

OpenAI said Thursday it would begin rolling out GPT-6, its most powerful AI model yet, to select customers, touting stronger safety safeguards as concerns grow over the cybersecurity risks posed by increasingly capable artificial intelligence systems.

France 24

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra with hacking risks in check

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is here, and its cyber skills are raising serious safety questions.

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International Business Times UK

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Can Run Desktop Apps by Voice but Its Riskiest Cyber Skills Stay Locked Down

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra introduces advanced task automation, enabling AI to navigate apps and complete tasks via voice. Its powerful cybersecurity features are restricted to select testers for safety.

Tom’s Guide

Should you feel guilty using ChatGPT? We just fact-checked Sam Altman's wild almond claim

Sam Altman says 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as growing one almond. We checked the math — and found there’s more to the story.

International Business Times

A Fed Governor Said He's Inclined To Keep Rates Unchanged. Yields Fell And Stocks Had Their Best Day In Weeks.

Christopher Waller said he's leaning toward keeping interest rates steady at the next central bank meeting in mid-September.

TechRadar

GPT-6 is here, but what if we just said 'no thanks' to Astra, a model so powerful that we may never fully understand it

OpenAI's next big model, Astra, a.k.a. GPT-6, is done with training and ready to launch, but CEO Sam Altman's warning and recent reports on the model's inscrutable nature have us worried.

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Fortune

Hugging Face goes from a 'scrappy' startup named after an emoji to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition

The deal stands to encourage more mainstream adoption of open-weight models, but AI insiders worry Nvidia will subtly influence them to all run on its hardware.

International Business Times

OpenAI Says Artificial General Intelligence Is Here. Bernie Sanders Is Calling For a Pause of AI Development.

"We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence," Sanders said.

Fortune

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model yet, and touts its ability to use your computer

OpenAI president Greg Brockman calls Astra “the start of the AGI era” even as outside experts worry about whether the company has effective safety and security controls in place.

International Business Times

OpenAI Releases Its Latest Model, Says It Marks The Beginning Of The 'AGI Era'

Company President Greg Brockman said GPT-6 Astra represents a "generational leap."

MarketBeat

The Path to $230 Billion: Broadcom Outlines the Next Phase of Its AI Growth Story

Broadcom beat earnings estimates and raised AI chip guidance, projecting $115 billion in FY2027 and $230 billion in FY2028 AI semiconductor sales as Anthropic and OpenAI grow as XPU customers.

The Guardian - UK

OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release

Astra’s arrival comes days after Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, described AGI as an ‘irrelevant marketing term’

Fortune

Why are AI safety experts alarmed by reports OpenAI’s Astra model uses “recurrent depth”?

OpenAI’s chief scientist says the company is committed to ensuring its models’ reasoning remains interpretable.

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