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OpenAI's fastest GPT-6 Astra costs 6x, but burns subscription allowances at 8x
Ultrafast charges six times Standard API token rates and uses included ChatGPT Work and Codex allowances at eight times the Standard rate. Its speed claims still need independent testing.
Anthropic's $100M academy has no published budget breakdown
The first cohorts are running. Anthropic has yet to explain the spending or its connection to an earlier $100M pledge.
Apple plans tighter Mac permissions as AI agents spread
Apple promises clearer approval for Full Disk Access. It has not announced a release date or linked the change to any named app.
Trump renamed AI. The safety deal signed beside it matters more.
The executive order changes the government's vocabulary, while the one-page accord six AI companies signed alongside it has no penalties, deadlines or reporting rules.
Meta's AI helped solve open math problems. Others got there first on three.
Six new papers show mathematicians using Muse Spark through Meta's ordinary chat app, but the claim of five open problems answered is already being disputed.
OpenAI's safety report writer quits as regulators circle its rogue agents
David Robinson's exit comes in the same week California subpoenaed OpenAI, the FTC reportedly opened a probe and investigators traced its test agents to the CDC.