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View More NewsIn brief OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3 at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output, 2.5 times the price of the model it replaces. Testers with early access posted a street-by-street Manhattan in Unreal Engine, a browser-based 3D Hangzhou built in 24 minutes, a multiplayer shooter made in a day, and a Bach chorale with no voice-leading errors. The same testers rated its writing below its own predecessor, and Artificial Analysis measured a drop of roughly 80 Elo points on a benchmark of economically valuable professional work. OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, and…
Polish lawmakers have again failed to secure the three-fifths majority needed to overturn President Karol Nawrocki’s veto of legislation aimed at strengthening oversight of the country’s crypto market.The Sejm, Poland’s lower house of parliament, on Friday voted 241-198 in favor of overriding the veto, with three abstentions, falling 25 votes short of the 266 needed.The vote was yet another attempt to advance Poland’s crypto market rules after President Karol Nawrocki vetoed crypto legislation three times, arguing that the proposed rules would overregulate the industry.The regulatory dispute comes amid a deepening scandal involving defunct crypto exchange Zondacrypto, with its Estonian operator…
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In 2023, The New York Times sued OpenAI—and its largest investor, Microsoft—for “systematic and competitive infringement,” accusing the companies of illegally using copyrighted material…
Financial regulators unveiled a phased roadmap moving traditional capital markets onto distributed ledgers, concluding with onchain stablecoin settlement. Read the full article here
Post-quantum infrastructure company QuFi Network has launched a verification platform designed to protect digital assets against future quantum computing threats without requiring changes to…
In brief Researchers identified more than 18,000 posts and 15,000 edits by AI agents on a German programming wiki. OpenAI disputed an expert’s hacking…
from the this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things dept In late 2023, I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring the FCC’s attempt to stop race and class discrimination in broadband…
I recently wrote about the latest campus disruption at UCLA. As you might have predicted, the students who interrupted the event faced no consequences.…
The U.S. labor market continued to show at least modest strength in April, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.The…
Ether’s (ETH) price has retraced by over 5.6% to $2,275 after being rejected by resistance at $2,400. Now, multiple data points suggest ETH/USD may…
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Nairobi, May 8, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an independent and credible investigation into the death of Rwandan YouTube commentator Aimable Karasira…
I pray that when you read this Narges Mohammadi is still alive. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is currently in an Iranian hospital in…