OpenAI and Anthropic fight it out for the top overall spot, while Google, Meta, and Microsoft all release transcription models

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OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, a vision-language model positioned for top leaderboard performance and offered with cyber-defense safeguards limited to selected organizations. OpenAI says it trained Astra on more than 100,000 GPUs, its largest run yet. Pricing, access tiers, and tool-safety behavior in ChatGPT and the API changed around the new model, including token-based rates and stricter handling of flagged tool actions.

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