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OpenAI is working on a new model family tentatively called "Astra" that's meant to be far more capable at long-running tasks than…
OpenAI has released its math report, officially confirming the Astra name for the first time. The company says an internal version of…
Amazon — new FCC legislation against foreign-made advanced robotic devices may have inadvertently introduced a ban on non-U.S. robot vacuums from being…
Crunchbase News — antora Energy, a company that provides energy through thermal batteries to data centers, announced Thursday that it has raised…
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Microsoft — the Steam Machine helped grow the popularity of Linux gaming, including installations of Bazzite and other gaming-oriented Linux distributions. Valve…
DroneDeploy offers both ground and aerial automated inspections. | , a construction management software provider, this week said it will acquire DroneDeploy…
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OpenAI — written by David Berlind, Senior Contributing EditorSenior Contributing Editor July 31, 2026 at 9:45 a.m. PT Reviewed by David Grober…
Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal testing designed…