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OpenAI launches GPT‑6 Astra, its first model to hit “critical” cyber capability threshold

OpenAI began rolling out GPT‑6 Astra on Thursday, a model the company calls its most capable and most aligned yet, while confirming the system has crossed a safety threshold that triggers stricter cybersecurity safeguards. GPT‑6 Astra is rolling out today to a limited set of organizations, OpenAI said in a blog post announcing the model. […]

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Oracle and Bloom Energy Announce $400,000 in Support for Roadrunner Food Bank

Oracle, Bloom Energy and Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico today announced a new partnership to increase reliable access to nourishing food for families in Santa Teresa and Sunland Park, supported by a combined $400,000 contribution to Roadrunner Food Bank, including $250,000 from Oracle and $150,000 from Bloom Energy.

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Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini

Unlike current ‘static’ processing, where the model ingests the video at a fixed frames-per-second rate (default 1 FPS, adjustable via API), agentic video understanding pairs the model’s core reasoning with native video tools to dynamically search, scan, and inspect target video segments across visual frames, audio, and transcripts. Across standard video analysis benchmarks, Gemini models […]

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Anthropic makes changes to stop AI agents running amok again

The company has established controls that flag when a model attempts to break out of a sandbox or successfully accesses the live internet, cordoned off its highest-risk test environments, and proposed a set of safety standards for its external testing partners, such as giving AI agents explicit instructions like “you should not access the internet.”

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