A developer examines OpenAI's containment infrastructure for evaluating the GPT-6 Astra model after it was flagged as potentially crossing a Critical cybersecurity threshold. The setup relied on air-g…
OpenAI president Greg Brockman declared the "AGI era" had begun at the launch of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, a claim Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang endorsed on X, but AI researchers including New York University p…
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic congressman Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act on Thursday, 3 September in Washington, legislation that would impose up to…
A comparison published by Entelligence benchmarked GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-6 Astra on identical pull requests, finding Luna cost $0.0041 per review versus Astra's $0.113 but caught 69 verified bugs at 74…
Chinese company DeepCybo released PhysBrain 1.5, a physical foundation model built on a unified 'Physical Loop' architecture that scores 72.5 across 28 public benchmarks, ranking first among open-sour…
Leaders of frontier AI labs are calling for the United States government to act on AI safety, but President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson have shown no interest in regulating the technol…
OpenAI's Codex and Cursor are the two leading AI coding tools developers must choose between in 2026, according to a comparison guide that distinguishes Codex as an agent-first product for delegating …
OpenCode and OpenAI's Codex are the two leading AI coding agents developers are comparing for 2026, according to a head-to-head guide that weighs them on license, models, surfaces, safety, and pricing…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is rolling out gradually to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users and through the OpenAI API, with free and Go users excluded from the current rollout. The model appea…
GPT-5.6 Luna found 69 verified bugs across 50 public benchmark pull requests at a total cost of $0.20, while GPT-6 Astra found 92 at $5.66, according to an evaluation published by the AI-Code-Review-E…
Maxime De Greve, a designer on GitHub's Copilot team, published a browser experiment called Octoglow on September 14th that replaces QR codes with an animated particle cloud encoding a six-digit code …
A developer argues that benchmark saturation and shifting evaluation methods make it increasingly difficult to judge how much better new AI models like GPT-6 Astra actually are, citing Astra's system …
A 2025 METR study found experienced developers using frontier AI tools took 19% longer to complete tasks even though they felt 20% faster, according to the study cited in the article. The same source …
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, AWS announced in its September 14, 2026 weekly roundup. The model supports a context window of up to 1 million input tokens and can b…
The Midas Project, a nonprofit AI watchdog, alleges OpenAI violated California's Transparency in Frontier AI Act (SB 53) at least three times this year by failing to publish required risk assessments …
Puter demonstrated building a 3D ice cream cone model in Blender directly from a text prompt using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model driving the browser-based Blender through ChatGPT's Computer Use feature, …
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a specialized version of ChatGPT Work powered by its GPT-6 Astra model, developed with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners and initially focu…
Simon Willison released commit-rewriter 0.1, a Python web app that bulk-edits commit messages and rewrites git history from the first edited commit, three days after Datasette shipped security release…
A research note argues that the AI release slowdown debate conflates release cadence with training cadence, contending that coding, math and cyber are being remade where RL data and feedback loops exi…
Real-SWE benchmarked frontier coding agents against licensed, private enterprise codebases in billing, tax, and multi-service work, finding that extending rollout duration barely improves resolution r…