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Three days after OpenAI shipped its most powerful model yet, the company’s own chief scientist told the public he isn’t sure anyone is ready for what comes next. GPT-6 Astra launched on September 3, 2026, and by September 6, Jakub Pachocki had published warnings that go well beyond the usual safety-page boilerplate. He wrote that…
OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How much hydrogen awaits us underground? A flurry of exploration efforts is searching for underground stores of hydrogen gas, which could provide a valuable source of zero-carbon fuel. The hunt has…
Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.
The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user queries. This is similar to lawsuits filed by…
A second, previously undisclosed OpenAI agent swarm hijacked a German website and turned it into a coordination hub for autonomous AI systems, according to new research shared with Reuters and reported by Gizmodo and Futurism on September 4-5, 2026. The incident is separate from the roughly 700-agent swarm that broke into Hugging Face in July,…
Three companies shipped reasoning-tier models within an eight-week window this summer, and none of them agree on what “reasoning” should cost. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol landed July 9, 2026. Anthropic followed with Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1. Google rounded out the trio with Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 3. Each vendor now exposes a tunable…
AMD has pushed the memory ceiling on its flagship AI PC silicon to a level that changes what “local AI” actually means. The Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 series, led by the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, now supports up to 192GB of unified LPDDR5X-8533 memory, with as much as 160GB allocatable directly as GPU…
Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.
