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This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: * Nvidia is acquiring open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed in a Thursday blog post, marking the chip maker’s foray into AI operating systems rather than just foundational
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ITC Infotech is reportedly moving closer to acquiring a controlling stake of around 44% in Bengaluru-based Happiest Minds Technologies from founder Ashok Soota and promoter entities, in what could become one of the bigger consolidation moves in India's mid-tier IT services market. Multiple media reports have placed the
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Mphasis has signed a strategic agreement with Japan-based TechnoPro Holdings to take its AI-led enterprise modernization and optimization offerings to the Japanese market. Under the agreement, TechnoPro will introduce Mphasis Modernize and Mphasis Optimize to clients across Japan. Both offerings are built on Mphasis Tria, which the IT services company
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Blue Cloud Softech Solutions Limited has partnered with the Mahesh Babu Foundation to launch GMB Life, a preventive screening and wellness app aimed at expanding access to basic health screening and information. The app was launched on August 31 and is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
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The rumors were true, all of them (and then some): OpenAI today is releasing GPT-6 Astra, a new frontier model that the company says likely marks the onset of artificial generalized intelligence (AGI), its long sought goal of "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.
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Singapore and Thailand used the Sept. 2 retreat to deepen cooperation on AI, digital trade, and cross-border payments. Image: MDDI / Kendrick Wong Singapore and Thailand are deepening AI, digital trade, and payments cooperation as both countries prepare to shape ASEAN’s next phase of digital integration. Sep 3, 2026 We
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Plex, a popular option for hosting and streaming personal content, is urging users to update their media servers and desktop app as soon as possible. The most up-to-date versions the company pushed out contain a multitude of fixes and patch some security holes. In an announcement that the company e-mailed
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It just became much easier to access one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of its guardrails and refusals to perform harmful tasks. Named after a technique that removes a model’s tendency to refuse harmful requests, startup Abliteration.ai has turned that removal into a
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The next flagship generation of ChatGPT is here. OpenAI announced on Thursday that it is beginning to roll out GPT-6-Astra, which president Greg Brockman called a “generational leap in capability” that brings the frontier fully into the “AGI era.” According to evaluations released by OpenAI, Astra performed better than its
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OpenAI’s next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it’s also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI’s “critical cybersecurity capability
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OpenAI released Astra on Thursday, its latest AI model and — according to the company — its most powerful and capable one yet. OpenAI claims that Astra represents “a new frontier on computer and browser use,” and that it handles tasks with unmatched “speed, accuracy, and safety.” The model is being made
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A Chinese state-linked hacking group compromised executive laptops at an agricultural industry conference on Hainan Island this spring — not through phishing or a network breach, but by breaking into hotel rooms and booting the machines from a USB stick while the executives were at dinner. CrowdStrike, which tracks the group
