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* OpenAI rolled out GPT‑6 Astra, its most advanced AI, with “critical” cyber capabilities * Astra can autonomously find and exploit unknown flaws; release limited to vetted Daybreak participants * Staggered rollout sparked user frustration; Altman apologized, promising broader access soon OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-6 Astra, its latest and most
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GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company’s “core DNA,” after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week. He claims the merger puts GoPro in a better position to continue developing its content creation tech,
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The third and final round of CNET’s Big Guessing Game is now closed, which completes our contest. We’ll be back after Apple’s “Surprise and shine” event on Wednesday, Sept. 9 to share the final answers and determine the winners The CNET Group’s Big Guessing Game contest
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There’s not much the robot vacuum industry can do to surprise me these days. I’ve seen robots that have mechanical arms to pick up objects, robot vacuums with legs and tread systems to climb stairs, and even wilder humanoid concepts. But iRobot genuinely surprised me with its Roomba
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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. It’s not quite the “push button; get song” of Suno, but Roland’s new Melody Flip tool marks the company’s
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It’s been a tough 12 months for the smartphone industry. Memory prices are up, unit sales are down, and a generally poor outlook for the future has not only forced the cancellation of specific models (the Nothing CMF Phone 3 Pro), but also entire brands (RIP OnePlus). On paper,
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Travis Larchuk is the producer for The Vergecast and Version History. OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that “the AGI era” is here now. Today on The Vergecast, we’ve got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week. First,
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It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled
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Memory lifecycle policies help long-running agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore stay effective by systematically managing what they remember and forget. Your agent generates memories from every conversation it conducts. If you don’t actively manage these memories, your agents will accumulate outdated context, which can degrade response quality and create
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The third and final round of CNET’s Big Guessing Game is now closed, which completes our contest. We’ll be back after Apple’s “Surprise and shine” event on Wednesday, Sept. 9 to share the final answers and determine the winners The CNET Group’s Big Guessing Game contest
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Tesla’s private Cybercab event has come and gone, and it was very different from the large, loud, live-streamed events the company usually puts on – an odd choice for the launch of a product CEO Elon Musk has spent years building towards. In fact, it doesn’t even appear that
