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OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra with improved prompt understanding and 3D model generation capabilities for developers.

Simon Willison demonstrates using Blender's Python API with ChatGPT Codex on macOS to generate images via coding agents.

I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none). Then I rendered those pelicans in a comparison grid with GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, and beyond being fun the result was surprisingly useful. See the grid for full quality images. Here's the transcript that created the GPT-6 Nova pelicans. There are a few interesting things that stand out from this grid. The Astra pelicans are much better . The very best GPT-5.6-Sol pelican (I liked xhig...

Study of substrate blindness in AI agents: Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6-Sol, Gemini 3.7 Flash code generation ignoring memory/compute constraints.

Just hours after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, CEO Sam Altman was already apologizing for what he describes as a "messy rollout" after paying users expecting access to the new frontier model were left waiting. The company hailed the model as a "generational leap in capability" on Thursday and described it as the start of "the AGI era," a fuzzy and poorly-defined term tech executives nevertheless insist on using to promote their products. It said Astra would roll out to some enterprise customers - specifically those with access to its Daybreak cybersecurity platform - that day. This would expan...

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra with SOTA computer use and coding; 2.5x higher token cost but lower per-task cost despite reduced interpretability.

Latent Space reports on GPT-6 Astra capabilities and pricing; lacks verifiable claims or technical depth for architectural audience.

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, a Claude Fable competitor priced at $10/$50 per million tokens, rolling out to ChatGPT Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise and via API.

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

OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it's also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI's "critical cybersecurity capability threshold" - but the company promises that won't lead to a repeat of its models hacking a rival company's internal systems. "If we fast-forward a couple of years, and we look back and say, 'When was it, really, that AGI was created?' I think it's going to be about th...

OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude are all experiencing issues. At around 11AM ET, ChatGPT started returning error messages for users trying to use the chatbot, with its status page saying there are currently "elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex." In addition to preventing users from having conversations with ChatGPT, the outage is also affecting logins, file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, image generation, and more. OpenAI says it has "applied a mitigation" and is "monitoring recovery," though its AI tools are still experiencing "degraded performance." The...

Playco reduced manual fixes by 50% in game prototyping using GPT-6 Astra, building three themed variants from shared foundation.

Legora reviewed 41 financial documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra, detected all 4 planted errors, and improved workflow performance by 40%.

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra with improved computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science capabilities.

an epic comeback story for Meta

GPT-6 Astra reaches Critical cybersecurity capability level under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework.

Debias-SparseGPT addresses bias amplification in pruned LLMs using representational debiasing with demographically contrasting inputs.

ATV Big Air Tour reduced marketing and merchandising tasks from 3 days to 3 hours using ChatGPT Work, including auto-generated inventory website.

Comparative analysis of worldbuilding strategies in AI-generated vs. human fiction across GPT-4, LLaMA 3.3, Mistral 3.2, Gemma 3.

Simon Willison documents OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop app bundling LibreOffice, Python, Node.js, and document processing tools in local cache.

Apple is pushing for "expedited discovery" in its legal battle against OpenAI over concerns the company is actively destroying evidence, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In a filing on Monday, Apple alleges OpenAI only just handed over a MacBook used by a former employee at the center of the lawsuit, which contained discussions about "destroying the types of forensic data Apple needs." This is the latest development in Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI, which accuses the ChatGPT-maker of stealing trade secrets to build an AI device. The lawsuit revolves around three former Apple employees who r...

Simon Willison built a GeoJSON map viewer tool using Claude Code and GPT-5.6-Sol for visualizing and exporting local political boundary maps.

OpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians.

ChatGPT gains EHR integration for healthcare; clinicians can securely access patient context and medical research via enterprise connections.

LLM-labeled NER training for Persian customer chat anonymization, comparing DeepSeek-V3, Qwen3, and GPT-OSS labeling quality.

Gilbert + Tobin law firm implements governance framework for ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex deployment with CEO oversight and human accountability measures.

Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.

Controlled study of 13 LLM scales (Qwen, GPT) on ontology learning tasks shows mixed effects of model size on performance.

Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.

OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That's because ChatGPT is now considered a Very Large Online Search Engine under the EU's Digital Services Act, a set of laws regulating major online services and platforms. Along with ChatGPT, the European Commission also announced that Reddit and Roblox are considered Very Large Online Platforms, subjecting them to the same rules. The DSA restricts platforms from targeting ads to minors or using a person's sexual orient...