OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman says AGI has arrived
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman says AGI has arrived

OpenAI’s president says artificial general intelligence has arrived. Greg Brockman told reporters that the company’s new Astra model qualifies, the Washington Post reported. OpenAI defines AGI as systems that are generally smarter than humans. “I do le…

Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits
Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits

Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now exposed to a backlash, after local opposition blocked or delayed 75 data centre projects worth about $130B in a single quarter. In Europe…

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 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 […]

Research finds AI agents haven’t quite mastered real-world browsing tasks despite claiming they can
Research finds AI agents haven’t quite mastered real-world browsing tasks despite claiming they can

Many AI agents lack sufficient safeguards and can’t handle multiple tabs very well despite promises.

CrowdStrike put OpenAI in the product and Anthropic at the checkout
CrowdStrike put OpenAI in the product and Anthropic at the checkout

CrowdStrike said on Wednesday that it will run OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Cyber inside a purpose-built cyber harness. That word is doing a great deal of work. It is also the word that made this week’s other cybersecurity story alarming. The expanded OpenAI partn…

OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability
OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability

OpenAI has told two House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capabilities, without providing the logs from the July incident in which an agent breached another company. The Commission has been able to require the withdrawal or recall of a gene…

Justice Department sides with OpenAI in publishers’ copyright fight
Justice Department sides with OpenAI in publishers’ copyright fight

The Justice Department filed a statement of interest backing OpenAI’s fair use defence in the consolidated publisher copyright cases, arguing that licensing costs would threaten national security. EU law has no fair use doctrine, and the AI Act applies…