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Today in brief.
GPT-6 Astra ships for computer use, with the hard numbers attached
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is live: Sam says best-in-class for computer use, science, and coding, and Perplexity already has it beating Fable 5.1 on WANDR at lower cost.
+1014 sourcesMartian routing cuts errors 46% vs the single best model
Martian shows that picking the right model per task beats locking one frontier model, with an ICLR 2026 oral and a hard cost lesson.
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Runway GWM Worlds 2 runs interactive worlds at 720p 24fps
Runway's General World Model now generates continuous interactive simulations you steer with text and camera, with no fixed clip length.
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17k runs later: which tools Claude, Codex, and Cursor actually install
Armature measured 17,000 coding-agent runs and published which tools Claude, Codex, and Cursor choose in the wild.
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DeepMind WeatherNext 3 learns weather from live observations
Google DeepMind says WeatherNext 3 forecasts global weather from real-time observations with more localized, faster predictions.
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Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B and keeps the open-model bet
Nvidia is buying the GitHub of open AI for $12.9B and publicly pledging to keep Hugging Face open, neutral, and builder-first.
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Perplexity Portable Computer hits Linux RTX boxes
Perplexity's Portable Computer is now on Linux for NVIDIA RTX GPUs with 24GB+ VRAM, right as Astra is headed into Comet and Computer.
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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok went down together
A rare overlapping outage hit OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI at once, which is itself a teaching moment about concentrated AI infrastructure.
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