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OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is ‘the most intelligent and aligned model in the world’

The new frontier model is particularly competent at agentic, computer-use tasks.

Netflix has ordered a live-action adaptation of D&D’s Ravenloft

Alfonso CuarĂ³n will executive produce the dark fantasy vampire story based on the popular D&D campaign setting.

Ugreen’s new smart home ecosystem is built around local AI hubs

Ugreen has three new hubs that run your smart home with local AI rather than the cloud. The top model runs on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor platform and costs $20,000.

SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other ‘compute partners’

Several AI companies experienced issues at around the same time.

The Apple Vision Pro was used for a successful hip surgery

Stryker says its SportSuite Vision software for the headset received De Novo authorization from the FDA in July.

Google’s new AI weather model uses live satellite data for higher-resolution forecasts

WeatherNext 3 is also supposed to be much better at predicting precipitation.

Utah won’t enforce VPN age-verification law until legal challenge resolves

The state was the first to target VPN usage in the wake of age verification laws, but an ongoing court case has put things on ice.

Epic Games brings cross-platform voice chat to Fortnite and its services

Game and yap from across Epic’s ecosystem.

Beyerdynamic’s new Aventho Y headphones last up to 90 hours per charge

This is especially noteworthy, as the cans cost just $150.

Pre-orders for Sony’s GTA 6-themed DualSense controllers will open on September 10

At $85, the hardware only costs a little bit more than the game.