OpenAI
OpenAI Starts Rolling Out GPT-6 Astra With 99.9% on ARC-AGI 3
GPT-6 Astra is priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output, matching Claude Fable 5, and posts top security benchmark scores.
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OpenAI
OpenAI commits $1 billion to cyber defence for essential services
OpenAI has announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a $1 billion commitment to widen access to frontier cyber AI, training and support.
Google Research
Complete wiring map of the male fruit fly nervous system: 166,000 neurons, 125 million synapses
Google Research and HHMI Janelia published the full connectome of the male fruit fly brain and central nervous system in Cell, the largest brain map by neuron count so far.
NVIDIA
First Nvidia RTX Spark laptops shown at IFA 2026
Lenovo's Yoga 9n 2-in-1 is the first hands-on look at Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip, which packs a Grace CPU and Blackwell RTX GPU into one SoC.
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind announces WeatherNext 3 forecasting model
Google DeepMind says WeatherNext 3, built with Google Research, learns directly from real-time observations to produce faster, more localized forecasts.
Perplexity
Perplexity open sources Lily, a Rust and Metal inference engine for Apple Silicon
Perplexity released Lily, the local engine running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon, reporting 1.23x faster prefill and 1.35x faster decode than MLX-LM.
cisa
CISA and G7 Urge Organizations to Begin Post-Quantum Encryption Shift Now
CISA and the G7 Cyber Security Working Group urge organizations to start moving to post-quantum cryptography now, warning that data protected today can be harvested and decrypted later.
openevidence
OpenEvidence unveils four medical AI models; Darwin 100.0% on MedQA in own test
OpenEvidence released a four-model medical AI family; Darwin scored 100.0% on MedQA in the company's own benchmark table, and none of the numbers has independent verification.
Microsoft
GPT-6 Astra reaches Microsoft Foundry: $10.00 in, $50.00 out per million tokens
GPT-6 Astra is now in Microsoft Foundry, first through its Limited Access Program, with Foundry pricing published: $10.00 input and $50.00 output per million tokens on Standard Global short context.
context7
Context7 launches Docs7: documentation served to agents, not just to human readers
Upstash's Context7 has launched Docs7, a documentation platform that, the company says, serves one source as both a human site and agent-readable formats, with analytics on which agents read it.
anthropic
Anthropic opens background computer use in beta to Pro and Max, with its own warnings
Anthropic says Claude can now click, type and open apps in the background on a user's desktop, in beta on Pro and Max, while its own support page warns there is no sandbox.
Microsoft
Invisible Unicode trick jumps from AI prompt injection to phishing, Microsoft says
Microsoft says attackers used invisible Unicode tag characters, a trick known from AI prompt injection, to split finance-bait words and slip past email filters.