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The Seattle Times and Newsday have jointly sued OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training on copyrighted journalism. Engadget reported the filing. The papers call generative AI a snake eating its own tail that could destroy the newsrooms that feed it. That line is dramatic, but the business claim is straightforward.
OpenAI just launched GPT-6 Astra, and The Verge says the company is talking about it like a generational leap. President Greg Brockman went further on a Thursday briefing. He said if we look back in a couple of years and ask when AGI really arrived, it might be about
Nvidia confirmed it is buying Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, and TechCrunch says the deal finally ends weeks of rumor. Hugging Face hosts about three million models, half a million datasets, and a million apps used by more than 18 million developers. That is the public square for open-
OpenAI's coming Astra model will use a technique called recurrent depth, also called opaque recurrence, and TechCrunch says AI safety researchers are rattled. The idea is simple to say and hard to police. Instead of only walking a clean, readable chain of thought, the model can loop the
Meta Superintelligence Lab shipped Muse Voice Transcribe, its first real-time audio perception model. Engadget reports it can handle dictation and transcription across more than 20 speakers and multiple languages at once. That is the messy meeting case most tools still botch. Mark Zuckerberg demoed it on X, including mid-
OpenAI is about to ship Astra, and Wired says it is the company's first model to reach the critical cyber capabilities bar in the Preparedness Framework. Critical here means the model can independently find and exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities in real-world software. That is a big jump