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OpenAI commits $1 billion to subsidized access for essential services

OpenAI has committed $1 billion to an initiative intended to protect essential services worldwide, according to an Axios summary. The commitment will take the form of expanded subsidized access to its models, training, technical support and partnerships for participating organizations. The summary does not identify the organizations, timetable or terms of participation.
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OpenAI begins gated rollout of GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI is releasing GPT-6 Astra, according to VentureBeat, beginning Thursday through its gated Daybreak program for enterprise customers. The company says the model will subsequently reach ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterpri...

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Thinking Machines Lab is reported to seek more than $1 billion

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI developer led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is in talks to raise at least $1 billion, according to a Techmeme summary of reporting by The Information. The reported financing would value the compan...

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ARC-AGI reports GPT-6 Astra results under two test harnesses

ARC Prize reported that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 Semi-Private under its Standard harness and 99.9% under a Provider Adapter harness that preserves opaque reasoning state between requests. The organization sa...

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OpenAI investigates ChatGPT and Codex outage

OpenAI is investigating elevated errors affecting ChatGPT and Codex, according to its status page as reported by BleepingComputer. The outage began at about 10:58 a.m. ET and affected conversations, login, search, file uploads, Vo...

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Google begins deploying WeatherNext 3 across weather products

Google DeepMind and Google Research said WeatherNext 3 will begin powering weather experiences in Google Search, the Gemini app, Google Maps, the Google Maps Platform Weather API and Google Earth Engine starting today. The compan...

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Mundo raises $20 million Series A for multimodal AI data work

Vancouver startup Mundo has raised a $20 million Series A led by GreatPoint Ventures, following an earlier unannounced $4 million seed round. The company says it is building datasets and evaluation frameworks for multimodal AI sys...

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