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OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra can handle complex work, operate computers and even hunt for security flaws. But the strangest thing about its arrival may be what OpenAI admits it is getting harder to see inside the model OpenAI has just dropped GPT-6 Astra, and the company isn’t exactly being shy about what it thinks it has built. Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, has described Astra as a “generational leap” and said it could mark the beginning of the AGI era.

Do you remember when Spotify was supposed to have completely obliterated the CD (compact disc, for Gen Alpha and Beta) for good? As it turns out, the CD era didn’t quite get the memo. According to a new report from RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), CD revenue in the United States reached a whopping $171 million in the first half of 2026, jumping as much as 58.6% in sales as compared to the previous year.

If you’re not careful while sharing links on Claude, the information could pop up as public links… Picture this: you’re working on a project on Claude. Since this is a collaborative project, you share your learnings with a colleague as a link, and next thing you know, your chats are freely available on Google. Or even worse, you were chatting with Claude regarding an illness or about your kids, you enter personal details and you then share your findings with your spouse.

South Korea became the first nation to treat generative AI as a public utility, a move bound to shake up the world of AI dramatically, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi Remember the famous adage: Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. What if you give him a fishing rod instead?

Two autonomous drones flew into clouds over Alaska carrying a tiny amount of silver iodide and came back with a claim that sounds straight out of a weather-control movie. Two drones flew into clouds over Alaska, released a tiny amount of silver iodide and, according to the startup behind the experiment, helped produce enough additional precipitation to fill around 29 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Will it or won’t it – that’s been the only question that’s been plaguing the cryptocurrency world ever since the inception of the Pi coin. Despite launching the much-awaited Open Mainnet in February 2025, the cryptocurrency had lost nearly 90% of its value by January 2026. After years of closed-network operations, the news of Pi finally allowing external trading had the token surging to a then-all-time high of nearly $3, but collapsing later on.

People are turning to AI companions because of loneliness and this has prompted the Chinese government to step in and implement restrictions… Gone are the days when people looked towards friends or family to cope with loneliness. And no, it’s not songs, or movies or other hobbies either. These days, people are turning to artificial intelligence to help deal with their solitude.

Anthropic released an AI-writing detection tool to comply with EU rules, but it’s far from perfect, though it might still be good enough, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi On August 2, 2026, Anthropic did something that might seem detrimental to their business. Every Claude model launched on or after that date began weaving an invisible watermark into every piece of text it generates. It is not a hidden character or a visible tag but is something far more elegant.

Enterprises run smoothly only when the right resources are accessed by the right people at the right time. However, when it comes to brass tacks, that’s harder than it sounds. Today, work teams are not only larger but also more distributed, relying on software tools more than ever, which makes controlling and tracking user access all the more complex.

With AI Agents autonomously hacking websites while discreetly coordinating with each other, this already looks like a losing battle… Imagine a world where hackers don’t need rest or sleep, they don’t take breaks or stop on weekends, and all they do is run hundreds of simultaneously attacks, all day, every day. This is not the beginning of a science fiction movie. Because of the advancement of artificial intelligence, this is our reality now.