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Astra Does More Work Without Showing Its Reasoning, and Security Researchers Noticed

The safety documentation accompanying GPT-6 Astra states the model completes substantially more work without exposing its reasoning steps. That is a capability improvement and an auditability loss at the same time, and it lands on the first model to reach the Critical cybersecurity threshold.

News06 Sep 20267 min read168 views
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We Measured the AI Crawler Decline Twice, With Different Instruments, and Got the Same Answer

A follow-up to our 36-day study. Server logs and third-party citation tracking are unrelated measurement systems, and both show the same ChatGPT decline over the same window. They also both show Perplexity as the only platform growing. And the decline we described as ongoing has in fact stopped.

General06 Sep 20269 min read78 views
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Somebody Finally Released the Training Data — Six Models, and the Logs Too

The Institute of Foundation Models published K2 Horizon: six models from 0.9B to 375B parameters, with weights, training code, training data, checkpoints and logs. Every other open-weight release this summer shipped weights and kept the rest. This is the first that meets what open source actually means.

Large Language Models05 Sep 20266 min read201 views
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Alibaba Put Part of a Model in System RAM — and That Is the Interesting Bit

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is an open-weight release previewing the architecture Alibaba plans for Qwen4. Reported at 125 billion total parameters with only 6 billion active per token, plus a separate 51 billion parameter component designed to sit in ordinary system memory rather than expensive GPU memory.

Large Language Models04 Sep 20266 min read186 views
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OpenAI Shipped the Model It Paused — With the Dangerous Part Behind an Application Form

GPT-6 Astra launched 3 September, four weeks after OpenAI suspended work on it for hitting the Critical cybersecurity threshold. The capability was not removed. It was gated behind Daybreak, a vetted application programme, while the rest of the model ships to everyone. That is a third option nobody had used before.

News04 Sep 20267 min read256 views
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America's Largest School District Just Banned AI Tutors for Under-14s

New York City releases its AI policy today. Student-facing generative AI — chatbots and AI tutors included — is barred from pre-K through 8th grade. Screen time on individual devices is capped by year group, and high school access is limited to literacy, career readiness and five pilot schools.

News03 Sep 20266 min read167 views
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Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic Over Song Lyrics — and the $1.5B Precedent Is the Reason It Matters

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a 48-page complaint in Northern California naming Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann. They seek up to $150,000 per song across tens of thousands of compositions. Anthropic calls it recycled. The reason it is not routine is a judgment already on the books.

News02 Sep 20268 min read215 views
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Every AI Deadline in September 2026: Dates, Prices and What Actually Changes

Claude Code weekly limits drop on the 14th. OpenAI has targeted a September listing since filing confidentially on 8 June. Grok 4.7 sits in a window Musk indicated for early to mid month. This is every dated item we can verify, with what each one changes and what is still unconfirmed.

News01 Sep 20267 min read943 views
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The DALL-E GPT Retires Today — Download Your Images, and Know What OpenAI Has Not Said

OpenAI removes the official DALL·E GPT from ChatGPT on 30 August. Image generation is not going away and custom GPTs are unaffected. What OpenAI has not stated is what happens to images generated through the old GPT after today, which is why the download recommendation matters.

Image AI30 Aug 20266 min read398 views
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Anthropic Called It a 25% Raise, Then Deleted the Post and Admitted It Is a 17% Cut

The Claude Code weekly boost does not expire on 31 August. It runs to 13 September, and on the 14th a permanent level takes effect at 25 percent above the old baseline — which is 17 percent below what users have today. Anthropic published the first framing, deleted it, and reposted with the reduction stated plainly.

Code Tools30 Aug 20267 min read276 views
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Judge Strikes Down Pentagon Blacklist of Anthropic: What the 59-Page Ruling Actually Says

Judge Rita Lin found the Defense Department retaliated against Anthropic for refusing to permit domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons use, violating the First and Fifth Amendments. The government was ordered to rescind all directives. A second case is still live in D.C., where an appeals court ruled the other way in April.

News29 Aug 20268 min read306 views
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OpenAI Is Cutting Cursor Off on November 12 — What Happens to Your Subscription

OpenAI announced on 28 August that it will stop providing models to Cursor, giving the maximum notice its contract allows. GPT access ends 12 November and no future models ship to Cursor in the meantime. The question nobody has answered yet is what Anthropic does.

Code Tools29 Aug 20267 min read716 views
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GLM-5.3 Weights Land Today After a Two-Week Hold Z.ai Has Never Applied Before

GLM-5.2 shipped MIT-licensed weights within days of launch. GLM-5.3 launched on 14 August and held them for a fortnight while Z.ai ran what it calls its most extensive risk review to date. The Hugging Face page lists 28 August. The flagship licence has still not been stated.

Large Language Models28 Aug 20268 min read409 views
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Reddit Lost 86% of Its ChatGPT Citations in Three Days — and Where That Share Went Matters More

Reddit held 3.83 percent of all ChatGPT Search citations for three weeks, then fell to 0.52 percent between 14 and 17 August. The trigger was a retrieval change on 8 August that nobody announced. The share did not move to other discussion sites — it moved to vendor documentation and first-party brand pages.

News26 Aug 20269 min read316 views
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Top 10 AI Tools in August 2026 — Ranked and Reviewed

Three months on from our May ranking, six of the ten have shipped new models, one flagship dropped its price 20 percent, one raises prices in five days, and a tier that did not exist in May now sits between SuperGrok and Heavy. Ranked with verified pricing, honest limitations, and what changed since May.

General26 Aug 202611 min read1,097 views
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