OpenAI Releases GPT Astra
OpenAI has released GPT Astra, a new model family including GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6 Luna, designed for complex reasoning, balanced intelligence and cost, and cost-sensitive high-volume…
OpenAI is an American AI research laboratory founded in 2015, known for creating ChatGPT, the GPT series of large language models, and DALL-E image generators. It is one of the most influential AI companies in the world.
OpenAI has released GPT Astra, a new model family including GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6 Luna, designed for complex reasoning, balanced intelligence and cost, and cost-sensitive high-volume…
On September 3, 2026, ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok experienced outages or issues for many users, with OpenAI's status page acknowledging problems across ChatGPT and Codex, Anthropic's status page indicat…
A widespread outage has taken down OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and X's Grok simultaneously, with Cursor also reporting an outage due to the disruptions, while Google's Gemini remains unaffec…
OpenAI, Claude, and Grok experienced simultaneous outages on [date not specified], according to status pages from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. Hacker News users speculated that the outages may be linke…
Major AI model providers experienced outages, with status pages for xAI, Anthropic's Claude, and OpenAI reporting issues, according to a Hacker News post by user ijidak.…
ChatGPT users worldwide encountered 404 errors on the chatbot, its website, and OpenAI's coding tool Codex, with messages like "unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error," even as OpenAI's status…
Meta Platforms Inc. released Muse Spark 1.3, its most powerful AI model yet, with Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang saying it is competitive with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and better than OpenAI's GPT…
OpenAI reported elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex on September 3, 2026, with a mitigation applied and recovery being monitored. The incident began at 02:58 PM and was updated at 03:22 PM, affec…
Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, and Grok experienced a widespread outage affecting web, mobile, and desktop users, with service beginning to restore after about half an hour. The downtime coincides with OpenAI…
OpenAI's Codex desktop app (version 26.611.61753) is failing for some Pro subscribers with repeated 'unexpected status 404 Not Found' errors from the chatgpt.com backend, interrupting long-running ses…
OpenAI and Google are opposing stricter AI safety provisions in a Massachusetts economic development bill that Anthropic supports, according to the bill passed by the Massachusetts Senate in late July…
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AI newsletter author Zvi Mowshowitz reports that OpenAI's upcoming Astra model uses a technique called recurrent depth, which shifts thinking outside the Chain of Thought, raising interpretability con…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Founders podcast that he has used computers the same way for 20 years, calling it the most psychologically inconsistent thing about himself, even as his company ships…
Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2 on Thursday at 10 cents per hour of audio, a 72% price cut from the $0.36 per hour charged for MAI-Transcribe-1 five months ago, undercutting rivals OpenAI, Goog…
OpenAI's Codex coding agent helped an experienced programmer turn a ten-line shell script into a more robust utility for launching Internet radio stations on Linux, fixing a potential bug involving st…
In an experiment with three small datasets, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna models made repeated data-analysis errors, including approving a backwards conclusion and inventing a correction tha…
AutoGPT, an open-source project with 185,000+ GitHub stars, has launched a hosted Platform that lets users build, deploy, and run AI agents that execute complete workflows, with a free self-hosted opt…
Saudi Arabia's sovereign AI company Humain, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, launched its national Arabic AI model humain-m3 at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh on September 3, 2026, revealing it is bu…
DumbDetector, a new community-driven platform, launched to aggregate anonymous reports of quality drops, errors, or instability in AI tools, monitoring products from Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub, Google,…