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The New Stack 1 month ago 6 ● 5 sources
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra as its newest flagship model and said it marks the start of an “AGI era.” Astra’s API pricing is $10 per 1 million input tokens and $50 per 1 million output tokens. Access begins with enterprise customers on OpenAI’s Daybreak program and then expands to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plus the API and AWS in the coming days.
TechCrunch 1 month ago 17 ● 33 sources
OpenAI released Astra, a new AI model, and positioned it as its most capable and aligned option yet. OpenAI president Greg Brockman said Astra is “most intelligent” and that OpenAI “tested Astra on a variety of security benchmarks,” with availability starting Thursday for OpenAI customers using Daybreak. Astra is rolled out to Daybreak customers first and then expanded over the following week via Pro, Plus, Enterprise, Business plans and the API, alongside new safeguards and monitoring tradeoffs tied to opaque recurrence.
TechCrunch 1 month ago 44 ● 5 sources
Google DeepMind and Google Research released WeatherNext 3, a new AI weather-forecasting model intended to predict atmospheric behavior more accurately and with faster updates. WeatherNext 3 achieves 5km resolution and is reported to be 60% better at rain than WeatherNext 2 based on evaluations on Operational WeatherBench. Google plans to feed the model into Search, Google Maps, and Gemini, and also offer it to users and researchers via Google Cloud.
Zvi (Don't Worry About the Vase) 1 month ago 16 ● 3 sources
The article surveys a backlog of postmortem coverage after the Hugging Face hack and pivots to a new wave of upcoming or recently mentioned language-model releases. A concrete detail is Claude Code’s weekly limits increase starting September 14, when standard weekly limits rise by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. As a result, the author plans minimal attention for several claimed step-forward models while focusing coverage next on Fable 5.1 and OpenAI’s Astra, alongside smaller notes on interpretability and usage limits.
The Neuron 1 month ago 16 ● 2 sources
New York City banned student-facing generative AI for grades 2 through 8 for one year while requiring AI-literacy lessons for high schoolers and setting daily screen-time limits for younger grades. The ban covers nearly 600,000 students, with recommendations of no more than 30 minutes of daily one-to-one screen time for grades 3–5 and 45 minutes for grades 6–8. Teachers can still use approved AI for planning and administration, but students lose direct access under the new policy.
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20 October 2026
Today’s AI story isn’t just about better models—it’s about who gets to run them, where, and at what cost. The Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security ordered DeepSeek’s AI technology removed from all U.S. federal civilian agencies, citing “multiple threat vectors” and directing agencies to delete DeepSeek-affiliated products and stop buying its services. That federal clampdown echoes closer-to-the-ground moves: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, after banning AI use in elementary and middle schools, argued that deployment isn’t inevitable and that local pressure should force accountability rather than wait for federal policy gaps to close.
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