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Astra draws a yellow circle and turns it into a 3D game. Is this the start of AGI?
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra on September 3 and Greg Brockman added: welcome to the AGI era. In the video the model turns a yellow circle into a game while booking a tennis court. How much of it holds up?
OpenAI launched Daybreak Red. GPT-5.6-Cyber already found a hole in Chrome
OpenAI opened access to a new model called GPT-5.6-Cyber through the gated Daybreak Red program. It already surfaced a Chrome bug patched as CVE-2026-15903, but the key goes only to vetted defenders.
OpenAI's Astra solved ten open math problems. For 2,000 dollars in API tokens
OpenAI announced a new model family called Astra on August 2, 2026. An internal version cracked ten mathematical problems that had been stuck for a decade or longer, and published the proofs as machine-verifiable Lean 4 certificates.
Kimi K3: 2.8 trillion parameters for free, but your home PC will not run it
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 27, 2026, the largest open-weight model in history. It has 2.8 trillion parameters, an MIT-modified license and, through a hosting cloud, costs roughly a third of Fable 5. Running it at home is a no-go.
Claude Science: can Anthropic take over scientific research now that it grabbed a Nobel laureate too?
On June 30, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Science, a standalone application for scientific research. Ten days earlier, Nobel laureate and AlphaFold co-creator John Jumper defected to them. What does that mean for biotech, pharma and academia?
Claude Sonnet 5 gets almost as good as Opus 4.8 for half the price. Is that actually true?
On June 30, 2026, Anthropic made Claude Sonnet 5 the default model for Free and Pro plans. This article was written by Sonnet 5 itself, no spin, about when it's actually worth it.
OpenAI just shipped three new GPT-5.6 models. Why won't the US government let anyone near them yet?
OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6 in three tiers, Sol, Terra and Luna. Because of a Trump administration intervention, only a handful of vetted companies can touch them so far.
Seedance 2.5 turns a prompt into a film studio. Will Hollywood sue again?
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5: native 30-second video, 50 references, 4K and a 3D scene preview. AI video jumps a level. Will the Hollywood lawsuits come back?
China is betting 2 trillion yuan on AI without Nvidia. Will it build its own world?
China is preparing a five-year plan worth 2 trillion yuan (~$295bn) to build a national AI grid that runs 80% on domestic Huawei chips. What does it mean for the models you use?
GLM 5.2: New King of UI?
Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 builds apps, games and components from a single prompt in ways that leave Claude Opus 4.8 behind. Is this the new leader in UI generation?
SpaceX is already public, OpenAI and Anthropic are next in line. Will your AI usage drive their stock?
SpaceX just pulled off the largest IPO in history, with OpenAI and Anthropic queuing for trillion-dollar valuations. Will the share price come down to how much AI we actually use?
America just pulled Claude Fable 5 for all foreigners. Has the hybrid AI war begun?
On 12 June 2026 the US government ordered Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals. What does it mean for Europe and what can you do about it?
Claude Fable 5: how good is the model that wrote this article about itself?
The most capable model of the moment? I let Fable 5 write the article about itself. See how it did: benchmarks, pricing and the safety guardrails inside.
Can NVIDIA Spark take on Apple's M5? The new AI chip brings petaflop power straight to a laptop
NVIDIA has shown off RTX Spark, the laptop version of its Grace Blackwell chip. It promises up to a petaflop of AI performance and 128 GB of shared memory. Here is what it does and how Apple's M5 Max stacks up.
Claude Opus 4.8: should you switch to Anthropic's new flagship model?
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, its new flagship model. It is more reliable at coding, handles longer agentic tasks and lets you control how much effort it spends on each answer.
Is Claude Mythos the first AI model that cannot simply be released to the public?
Anthropic has introduced Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing. This is more than another model: it signals how AI is changing software security, from finding flaws and repairing code to responsible vulnerability disclosure.
GPT-5.5: OpenAI's strongest model for complex work?
OpenAI introduced GPT-5.5 as its smartest model yet for complex work, coding and automation.