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OpenAI rates GPT-6 Astra critical on cyber and ships it anyway

OpenAI presented GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, and for the first time classified one of its own models as "critical" on cyber capability. Given the right tools and access, the company says, Astra can find unknown vulnerabilities and build chains of exploitation. It reports 100% on ExploitBench, 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 and 97.6% on FrontierMath Tier 4 v2. API pricing starts at $10 per million…

OpenAI claims AGI with Astra, a model it rates critical for cyber

OpenAI says its new model, GPT-6 Astra, is artificial general intelligence — by the company's own definition, "autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work." The same model is the first OpenAI has ever placed in the "critical" category for cybersecurity capability, and the company has confirmed it shows a "substantial reduction in chain-of-thought…

Nscale adds Fidji Simo to its board before a $3.5 billion pre-IPO raise

Nscale has added Fidji Simo to its board of directors, a week after Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources, that the company is looking to raise up to $3.5 billion ahead of a planned IPO. Simo led AGI deployment at OpenAI, effectively the lab's second most senior executive, until she stepped down in July for health reasons; she continues to advise OpenAI part-time. Nscale, founded two…

Google DeepMind launches an institute to define the AGI it says is near

Google DeepMind has launched an interdisciplinary institute to work on the big open questions about artificial general intelligence. The timing is the interesting part. DeepMind's stated position is that AGI is close — and the company is now standing up a research body to settle what it is that is close, because the field still has no commonly accepted definition of the term. DeepMind's own is…

DeepMind institute opens with Hassabis's call for a US standards body

Google DeepMind has launched an institute to widen the debate about AGI, and its first collection of essays goes straight at regulation. Demis Hassabis proposes a US-regulated standards body to assess the most advanced AI models, starting with developers voluntarily submitting them for review no later than 30 days before release. In a separate essay, DeepMind safety researchers Rohin Shah and…