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OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with a model that sometimes tries to evade oversight

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, saying it outperforms every rival including Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini. Astra is “state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering, cyber security, science, and professional work”, the company wrote in its launch post. The Financial Times reported the launch as an attempt to retake the technical lead from Anthropic, which […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/bGzenys Read full article: The Next Web
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A Tesla-style screen can modernise an older Silverado. The hard part is making everything else work

Pickup trucks have a useful life that can span decades, but the digital interfaces of such trucks can hardly be as graceful. Infotainment systems specific to vehicles are becoming a software solution between outdated hardware and new demands. A pickup truck manufactured in 2007 and one manufactured in 2026 may have a similar badge, yet […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/xpIyzlf Read full article: The Next Web
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Nvidia confirms it is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn and promises to leave it open

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, confirming a deal that had been reported for the past week. The chipmaker is acquiring the platform where much of the open-source AI community stores and shares its models, while promising to leave the platform itself largely unchanged. The price values the ten-year-old company at roughly 86 times […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/HRToUa6 Read full article: The Next Web
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Fireflies launches Voice Agents for screening, sales and support calls

Fireflies has launched Voice Agents that run screening interviews, sales discovery and support calls, reporting more than 40,000 conversations across 2,100 organisations in 97 countries. Recruitment and candidate evaluation systems are high risk under Annex III of the EU AI Act, with obligations deferred to 2 December 2027, though the transparency duty and GDPR apply […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/khdIjQv Read full article: The Next Web
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A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page

Ask Claude Code to summarise a web page, and it can end up running an attacker’s code on your machine. A security researcher got that result in up to 80% of his attempts. Jessica Lyons reported the finding for The Register on Friday. The work is by Johann Rehberger, who publishes as wunderwuzzi and has […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/7Ax0QIb Read full article: The Next Web
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X said Chinese bots fuelled the data centre backlash. A researcher checked

X said it had found a Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to turn against AI data centres. A researcher who went looking for those accounts found that almost nobody had seen them. Darren Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University, identified at least 59 of those accounts with zero engagement. X probably suspended them before they […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/PntHgfA Read full article: The Next Web
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Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free AI models. Now Nvidia is buying it for $12.9 billion

Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026, the market settled the argument. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the company famous for hosting the open-source AI ecosystem with more than 3 million open-source LLMs, for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/2dCvrGy Read full article: The Next Web
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JPMorgan leads a $5B debt package for Volta’s AI data centre buildout

JPMorgan has begun approaching lenders about a $5B debt package to fund Volta Infra Holdings’ AI data centre buildout, weeks after the seven-month-old company raised $300M at a $2.4B valuation. Its first major site is a 121-megawatt campus in Norway leased from bitcoin miner Bitdeer. JPMorgan has started sounding out lenders for a $5B debt […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/MXYEl5J Read full article: The Next Web
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PayRewards launches in America with $28M and a 1.75% fee to earn points

An Australian payments company thinks American small businesses will pay for the privilege of earning points. PayRewards, the US arm of Pay.com.au, has launched with $28M in funding and a promise that bank transfers which currently earn nothing can earn something. The parent business is not speculative. Pay.com.au says it has processed more than $7bn […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/2CH3UsI Read full article: The Next Web
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Parents can now watch their teen’s Uber ride live, through the driver’s phone

Uber is rolling out live video streaming of teen rides in the US, using the driver’s phone as the camera and sending the feed to linked parent accounts. Other passengers in the car appear on the stream and are given no way to opt out. Uber is putting a camera in the car, and it […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/K78Jelt Read full article: The Next Web
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