OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a model trained on over 100,000 GPUs at its Texas Stargate site, marking the first time OpenAI used other AI models to help supervise training. President Greg Brockman described it as a 'generational leap' and hinted it could mark the arrival of artificial general intelligence. The model will roll out first to select partners in OpenAI's Daybreak Access program before reaching ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and API users.
Google DeepMind has released WeatherNext 3, an upgrade to its AI weather model that generates hourly forecasts on a 5-kilometer grid, five times finer than its predecessor. The improvement comes from feeding the model live satellite imagery and sparse weather station readings instead of relying mainly on lagging numerical prediction data.
Google DeepMind has released WeatherNext 3, a new AI-driven global weather model that the company says improves precipitation forecast accuracy by up to 50% for predictions made a day or more ahead. The system is positioned as an upgrade over prior AI weather tools and traditional forecasting methods.
Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to NSA Director General Joshua M. Rudd asking the agency to update its public guidance on VPN configurations. He argued that current recommendations don't help Americans facing foreign surveillance—including government staff, contractors, journalists and human rights defenders—choose which VPNs actually protect their communications.
Code strings found in a beta version of Google's Digital Wellbeing app reveal an in-development feature called Weekly wrap, which would send users a notification summarizing their phone usage over the past week. Rather than requiring users to manually check screen-time stats, the tool would proactively surface personalized insights based on existing usage data, likely powered by Gemini Nano.
Utah's Department of Commerce has agreed not to enforce SB 73, a law that took effect this week making adult websites liable for users who access them via VPN, while a federal judge weighs a legal challenge. The law treats anyone physically located in Utah as a Utah user regardless of VPN use, and bars sites with significant adult content from encouraging VPN use.
OpenAI's unreleased GPT-6 Astra model scored 62.7% on the ARC-AGI-3 Semi-Private benchmark using a Standard harness for $26,000, and 99.9% using a Provider Adapter harness that preserves reasoning state between requests for $19,000. The model also beat the median human tester's action efficiency on 96% of the benchmark's levels, building compact symbolic world models and its own shorthand notation to track game states.
Tesla is staging its first public launch of the Cybercab, a driverless two-seat vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, in Austin on Thursday. Ahead of the event the company registered 420 autonomous vehicles in Texas and deployed dozens of the cars around the city and elsewhere in the US, with executives including Elon Musk hyping the moment on social media.
Threat group ShinyHunters publicly taunted security vendor ReliaQuest, posting screenshots suggesting a compromised employee account and listing the company on its data leak site. ReliaQuest confirmed an employee was tricked via a vishing attack into entering credentials on a fake single sign-on page, but said the attacker only gained view-only access and could not move laterally or reach internal applications.
New Jersey's attorney general has asked the Supreme Court to resolve whether states can regulate sports wagers offered through prediction markets like Kalshi. The move follows a split between federal appeals courts: the 3rd Circuit ruled such bets are federally regulated swaps outside state control, while the 9th Circuit found they are simply gambling by another name and can be blocked by states like Nevada.
Barilla, the Italian pasta company, has agreed to acquire GOODLES, a boxed macaroni-and-cheese brand known for adding protein and fiber to its recipe. The brand launched a little over four years ago and has quickly built a reputation as one of the fastest-growing players in the category.
A Hacker News poster described being stuck in a repeating Google reCAPTCHA challenge when trying to access archive.is using current Firefox on Linux with strict privacy settings enabled. Disabling Privacy Badger and switching to private browsing did not resolve the issue, prompting the user to ask whether other Firefox users are experiencing similar problems.
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