
OpenAI Unveils Astra, Its Most Powerful Model Yet, and Sparks Fresh Debate Over AI Opacity
OpenAI Astra debuts as the company’s most powerful model yet, but its opaque reasoning and cyber abilities are drawing fresh scrutiny.
Developments in large language models like GPT-3 for text processing.

OpenAI Astra debuts as the company’s most powerful model yet, but its opaque reasoning and cyber abilities are drawing fresh scrutiny.

Meta is offering huge discounts on Muse Spark for AI agents users who share prompts and outputs, betting data access will speed model improvement.

OpenAI is ending its Cursor partnership, giving up over $1 billion in annualized revenue to avoid Musk-linked risk.

Google’s Gemini voice modes are rolling out in Gmail, Docs and Keep, bringing hands-free search, summaries and drafting to mobile users.

Ollie says AI assistant privacy and SOC 2 compliance can help it stand out as families weigh convenience against data security.

An AI outage hit ChatGPT, Grok and Claude at once, disrupting logins, chats and key features across three major chatbot platforms.

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, making a huge open-source AI bet and expanding its reach beyond chips.

Gemini 3.8 Flash adds stronger reasoning and agent skills, but Google warns the new model may use more tokens and raise costs.

OpenAI’s Astra reasoning method is sparking chain-of-thought monitoring fears as safety experts warn about lost transparency.

Russian startup Mostik says its AI models can share knowledge without text, cutting costs and boosting open-weight performance.