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TechCrunch 1 month ago 49 ● 3 sources
OpenAI temporarily disabled new sign-ups for its $200-per-month Pro subscriptions because demand for its new model Astra is straining its infrastructure. The pause starts while Astra, launched on September 3, rolls out across Pro, Plus, Enterprise, and Business. OpenAI says API access and lower-cost Go and Plus plans remain available, with priority given to existing users.
The New Stack 1 month ago 41 ● 5 sources
OpenAI released GPT Images 2.5, including the Flare and Sunburst image-editing models, promising edits that change one part of an image while preserving the rest. Flare is described as delivering higher-quality images than GPT-Image-2 with 50% lower latency. Developers now have to test Flare versus Sunburst for tradeoffs in edit precision versus generation time and real-world cost, since OpenAI provides equal token rates but no way to estimate token consumption with the new models.
IBM Research 1 month ago 15
IBM and NASA released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source AI model that integrates decades of lunar mapping data across different sensors, angles, and spatial scales. The model’s ice-prospecting task cut error by 22% versus a SwinV2 transformer. It changes lunar research by enabling faster, reusable modeling and improving crater, ice, and volcanic feature detection for Artemis planning and follow-on simulations.
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18 October 2026
AI oversight stopped being a PowerPoint exercise today and got hands-on. Anthropic said it has given outside AI watchdog METR “employee-like” access, embedding a METR team in its offices with access to hardware and internal systems so risk evaluation can run closer to the actual model and infrastructure—not just post-hoc reports. That trend of tightening control shows up elsewhere: U.S. banks and brokerages are blocking outside AI agents from logging in and moving money, with Charles Schwab reporting it blocks agents “in the tens and twenties each week,” while routing limited balance viewing and analysis through Schwab’s own MCP servers. Even the courts are joining in—at least eight states sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT helps “cyberhacking agents” and misleads adults, raising the stakes for how tightly companies must constrain agent behavior.
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