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As rumors continue to swirl about OpenAI's work on a personalized smart speaker and other hardware, the company is today quietly rolling…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is sticking to his view that capable open-weight models carry significant risks, but he's not against open weights…
OpenAI says it can keep up on ARC-AGI-3. After Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 quadrupled the record score on the logic benchmark, OpenAI is now showing that…
Hop Aero, a six-person Y Combinator startup based in Orange, California, has published the first public details of what it calls ‘Rook,’…
ServeTheHome — ahead of FMS 2026, Kioxia launched its new CM10 series, marking the company’s entry into PCIe 6.0 enterprise storage with…
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…
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…