GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era
OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.
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How to Use Midjourney V8.1: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
Midjourney quietly swapped its default engine on August 29, 2026. Anyone who opened Discord and typed /imagine that week got V8.1 output instead of the V7 renders they were used to, with no announcement banner and no opt-in required. If your prompts suddenly look different, or you’re setting up Midjourney for the first time, this…
AI Token Prices Collapse Nearly 60%, Raising Questions About the $600 Billion AI Boom
AI is getting cheaper at a speed that could reshape the economics of the biggest infrastructure buildout in tech history. Silicon Data’s LLM Token Expenditure Index fell to $0.9665 per million tokens on August 31, down more than half from […] The post AI Token Prices Collapse Nearly 60%, Raising Questions About the $600 Billion…
OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model
OpenAI claims that Astra represents “a new frontier on computer and browser use,” and that it handles tasks with unmatched “speed, accuracy, and safety.”
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 “critical cybersecurity capability threshold” – but the company promises that won’t…
'Welcome to the AGI era': OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra
The rumors were true, all of them (and then some): OpenAI today is releasing GPT-6 Astra, a new frontier model that the company says likely marks the onset of artificial generalized intelligence (AGI), its long sought goal of "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work." In a closed a press briefing…
China-linked hackers backdoored executives' laptops via USB, exploiting a fix companies had but weren't using
A Chinese state-linked hacking group compromised executive laptops at an agricultural industry conference on Hainan Island this spring — not through phishing or a network breach, but by breaking into hotel rooms and booting the machines from a USB stick while the executives were at dinner. CrowdStrike, which tracks the group as OVERCAST PANDA, disclosed…
Final Fantasy Resonance Demo Lands on Switch 2 Today [2026]
Square Enix dropped a free demo for Final Fantasy Resonance today, September 3, 2026, putting the studio’s first HD-2D mainline entry into players’ hands on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 alongside PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The release accompanied a new State of Play segment and a fresh trailer that also confirmed…
Trump on US Currency? Manifold Traders Price 97% Odds His Face Appears Before 2028
Traders just piled into a Manifold market on whether Donald Trump’s face will appear on US currency before December 2028. The contract sits at a 97% implied probability of YES as of September 03, 2026, and roughly 48% of its all-time volume changed hands in the past 24 hours. The trigger is concrete: on September…
GTA VI 2026 Release Odds Hit 96% on Manifold After Netflix Extended Look
GTA VI 2026 Release Odds Hit 96% on Manifold After Rockstar’s Netflix Extended Look. A prediction market asking whether Grand Theft Auto VI ships before the end of 2026 has surged to a 96% implied probability of yes as of September 03, 2026, with 43% of the contract’s all-time volume changing hands in a single…