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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? The era of AGI has arrived – at least that's what OpenAI president Greg Brockman believes. He was talking about the launch of the company's latest model, GPT-6
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Most manufacturers didn't need a business case to understand the cost of reactive maintenance. They'd been absorbing it for years – unplanned stops, recovery overtime, expedited parts, the slow erosion of scheduling confidence and customer trust. What shifted was the available answer. AI in maintenance moved from
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Manufacturing has entered an era where the factory floor is as much a data environment as it is a production environment. Few industries illustrate this shift more clearly than precision bearing manufacturing, where microscopic tolerances, high-volume output, and rigorous quality demands leave little room for error — and enormous room for
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OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, the model that takes over from GPT-5.6 Sol at the top of its range. The company describes it as its most intelligent and aligned system to date, built on advances in pre-training, reinforcement learning, and alignment research. It is going out in stages. A
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Daybreak program brings subsidized models, training, and support to under-resourced teams OpenAI has pledged $1 billion in credits to subsidize access to its services and training for resource-strapped cyber defenders around the world. The AI giant expects organizations to use the subsidized credits over the next six months as part
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ai and ml OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot After a brief training pause to reflect on the inadequacy of its AI security measures, OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, initially for those in its Trusted Access Program. Assuming all goes well and
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OpenAI’s president says artificial general intelligence has arrived. Greg Brockman told reporters that the company’s new Astra model qualifies, the Washington Post reported. OpenAI defines AGI as systems that are generally smarter than humans. “I do leave it up to the reader to decide for themselves if this
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The new frontier model is particularly competent at agentic, computer-use tasks. Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images A little under two months after releasing its last major model family to the public, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, OpenAI is back with an entirely new one: GPT-6 Astra, what it claims
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Oura, the smart ring maker, has filed to go public. The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday shows that Oura’s revenue has jumped substantially in the past year. The company went from $697 million in revenue during the nine-month period that ended June 30 last year
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A shared security 'Nightmare' The disgruntled security researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse (aka Chaotic Eclipse, Infinite Nightmare, and now also MSNightmare) is moving away from their singular Microsoft vendetta and on to other vendors. On Thursday, they dropped a new zero-day bug called FalconFlank that affects CrowdStrike’s
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While OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is making a big splash in the AI world with its debut, it was far from the only one to be announced this week. When there’s a new, updated model seemingly every other day, it’s hard to stay up to date, let alone
