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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra and says welcome to the “AGI era”

OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-6 Astra, its newest flagship model. The company describes it as “the world’s most intelligent and

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“Hugging Face will remain an open platform”: Nvidia strikes $12.9B deal for the ‘GitHub of AI’

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Nvidia has confirmed that it’s agreed to acquire Hugging Face in a mammoth $12.9 billion deal that will bring one

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Text • Amanda Caswell

It cost $33 to build a virtual Union Square. Here’s what the agents got wrong.

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PhiloLabs wanted to see how far a group of AI coding agents could get building something where working code wasn’t

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Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Some Republicans to Skip GOP Midterm Convention

“Ahead of next week’s Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas, which is set to tout President Donald Trump’s record at a time when he still faces low approval ratings and a negative political environment, several battleground Republicans said that they either aren’t going to the convention or are still undecided,” ABC News reports.

Ars Technica
Text • Kyle Orland

Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.

Remarkable People
Audio • Guy Kawasaki

How Poetry Gives Shape to What We Feel

What if the words we avoid contain some of our most important lessons?

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Q: The Iranians say that an attack on a wedding celebration killed several people and injured dozens of others. Have you been briefed?

Vance: Sometimes thing happen

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Q: Scott Bessent said gas prices would be $3 by Labor Day. Do you have a new timetable for when Americans can expect lower gas prices?

Vance: Well, in defense of Scott, he said maybe by Labor Day

Electrek
Text • Jameson Dow

BEVs outsold every powertrain in August, so why is UK trying to roll back targets?

August sales numbers from the UK show a rosy picture for electric car sales, with BEVs being the most common powertrain and making up 30% of the market, up from 23% a year ago.

The number is well ahead of the pace required to meet the UK’s current somewhat-ambitious target of 80% EV sales by 2030… so why is the UK government considering softening that target?

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The Trump administration is now threatening the tax-exempt status of schools and colleges that provide support to Black, Hispanic or other minority students.

WIRED
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GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era

OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.

Data Rescue Project Supports Webmention
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Tracking Censorship in National Parks: An Update from the Save Our Signs team

Tracking Censorship in National Parks: An Update from the Save Our Signs team

As censorship of NPS materials continues, the Save Our Signs team has released new resources and a key update to the existing infrastructure to make it easier to understand what has changed.

SOS Censorship Tracker

Through both news reports and visual confirmation of sign differences, the SOS team is consolidating

TPM – Talking Points Memo
Text • Khaya Himmelman

Dems Demand Investigations After USPS Whistleblower Report: ‘Unconstitutional Power Grab’

Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Democrats are sounding the alarm and demanding investigations in the wake of  a...

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Breaking: Bartiromo Out at Fox

Maria Bartiromo is out at Fox News and Fox Business. And apparently with so little advance warning that they barely...

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Search Continues For Missing Hudson Valley Man In Upstate New York

The DEC has joined the search for a missing elderly Hudson Valley man who hasn't been seen in over a month. Continue reading…

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Fox: You have lost a ton of weight lately. How much sauerkraut do you eat?

Vance: When you're the Vice President and one of the first questions at a press conference is how much weight you've lost, you must have gotten very fat

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Fox: Are we talking to you as Vice President or Press Secretary?

Vance: Ha ha ha ha

Techdirt
Text • Mike Masnick

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we’ve been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn’t waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a […]

Techdirt
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Daily Deal: Babbel Language Learning (All Languages)

Become a language expert with a Babbel Language Learning subscription. With the app, you can use Babbel on desktop and mobile, and your progress is synchronized across devices. Want to practice where you won’t have Wi-Fi? Download lessons before you head out, and you’ll be good to go. However you choose to access your 10K+ […]

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John Singer Sargent, Two Male Figures, Possible Study for "Hell", ca. 1910 #johnsingersargent #themet