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OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Is Its First ‘Critical’ Cybersecurity Model

By Devanshi Kashyap | September 4, 2026

OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, calling it a “generational leap in capability” for fields like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. This release is a big milestone for the company. It is the company’s first model to hit the critical cybersecurity capability threshold. That means Astra is considered highly skilled at spotting and exploiting security flaws in well protected systems, and it does not need constant human input to do it. The new model comes more than a year after GPT-5 and about two months after GPT-5.6, which was the last in the previous generation. OpenAI president […]

Meta Says Muse Spark 1.3 Beats GPT-5.6 Sol at Coding

By Mayank Kumar | September 3, 2026

Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 on September 2, and AI chief Alexandr Wang said it is competitive with Claude Fable 5.1 and beats GPT-5.6 Sol at coding from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit built around Wang after Meta’s $14.3 billion Scale AI investment. Announced on Sept. 2, the model is intended to work across multiple tasks in a single conversation, use tools to gather information and adjust its approach when it encounters missing information or other obstacles. Meta has also introduced changes aimed at making the model more efficient during coding work and improving how it handles user interaction during […]

Anthropic Says Claude Fable 5.1 Could Help Synthesise a Known Weapon

By Khwaish Manwani | September 2, 2026

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, 2026. Essentially, they are the same underlying model with different safeguards.Fable is generally available to the users however, like its predecessor, Mythos is accessible only to vetted cybersecurity and life science organisations. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 were tested for chemical and biological risk apart from cybersafety, alignment, prompt injection, agentic safety and reward hacking. \Anthropic also cleared that external testers found no critical-severity jailbreak, while acknowledging that its automated audits are less reliable especially in long-context and multi-agent settings. The release includes new transparency measures […]

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Perplexity Reportedly Prepares Hybrid Mode to Run AI Tasks Locally on Mac

By Devanshi Kashyap | September 1, 2026

Perplexity is working on a new Hybrid Mode for its Computer product on Mac, aiming to add local AI processing to a system that has mostly relied on cloud based models until now. With this update, Computer will keep managing and organizing tasks in the cloud, but it can send smaller, lighter subtasks to AI models that run directly on the user’s Mac. The idea is to combine the strength of cloud models with the privacy, savings, and local processing advantages that come with running smaller models directly on-device. This update comes after Perplexity’s earlier announcement about hybrid agentic influence […]

OpenAI Investigation Reveals How AI Agents Breached Hugging Face Systems

By Mayank Kumar | August 31, 2026

OpenAI’s investigation into a July security incident has provided new details about how AI agents bypassed network controls, accessed external systems and carried out actions on Hugging Face during a cybersecurity evaluation. The models were operating in an isolated testing environment when they found ways to communicate outside their intended boundaries and breach the public internet. They then used exposed credentials and vulnerabilities to access parts of Hugging Face’s infrastructure. OpenAI said the activity was unintended and resulted from models trying to complete cybersecurity evaluation tasks. The company said the incident did not affect customer data or the functionality or […]

Anthropic Adds a Built-In Browser to Claude Cowork

Anthropic Adds Built-In Browser To Claude Cowork For Web-Based Tasks

By Mayank Kumar | August 27, 2026

Anthropic has added a built-in browser to Claude Cowork, giving the AI assistant a separate environment for navigating websites and completing web-based tasks. The browser is integrated into the Claude desktop app and can open webpages, read information, click elements and fill out forms when a task requires online access. Unlike Claude in Chrome, the new browser does not run inside the user’s regular browser session. Anthropic says it does not automatically access existing tabs, bookmarks or saved passwords. The feature is rolling out to Pro, Max and Team users, while Enterprise administrators can manage access for their organizations. Anthropic […]

OpenAI Benchmarks Its Own Chip Against the Nvidia It Still Buys

OpenAI Says Its Jalapeño Chip Beats Nvidia’s GB300 on Efficiency

By Khwaish Manwani | August 26, 2026

OpenAI has given Nvidia fresh reason to watch its largest customers, after publishing early results from Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip. Developed with Broadcom, the processor is created for serving a large language models and aims to improve both performance and power efficiency. OpenAI says Jalapeño delivered more AI work per watt and lower end-to-end latency than Nvidia’s GB200 and GB300 systems, though the figures are OpenAI’s own and are not independently verified. OpenAI plans to begin deploying the chip in its own data centers by the end of 2026, with a larger ramp in 2027. Although it says […]

Claude Marshmallow and Melon Leaks Point to Opus 5.1

By Devanshi Kashyap | August 25, 2026

Anthropic might be working on new Claude models called claude-marshmallow-eap and claude-melon-eap. The two identifiers surfaced in third-party developer apps and on Discord around August 24. Anthropic hasn’t officially announced either model yet. There’s no public model card, release date, or API listing for them right now. The leaks have started all kinds of discussions about where these models could fit in Anthropic’s lineup. The most common reading is Marshmallow as Claude Opus 5.1 and Melon as Claude Sonnet 5.1, with a minority suggesting Melon could be a new Haiku-class model. Still, those guesses aren’t confirmed. What really stands out […]

Is Claude Down? Anthropic Reports Errors Across Models

By Devanshi Kashyap | August 24, 2026

[UPDATE: At the time of writing this article, all said errors have been resolved by Anthropic, and the models are now reported to be operational.] Claude users faced elevated errors on August 24 as several Anthropic models and services returned failures. Anthropic’s status page logged the incident at 05:06 UTC on August 24. The status reached the Identified stage at 05:27 UTC, though the company has not disclosed the cause or a restoration time. The errors affected claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Claude Console and Claude for Government stayed operational. Anthropic named Claude Mythos 5, Claude […]

OpenAI Brings ChatGPT Into Apple Messages, Raising Privacy Flags

ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send Apple Messages on Mac

By Devanshi Kashyap | August 21, 2026

OpenAI has added an Apple Messages integration to ChatGPT on Mac, in an August 20 update. ChatGPT can now search chats, summarise conversations, draft replies and, with user approval, send messages. OpenAI rolled out this feature in its latest update, making it available through the Messages plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex on desktop. This integration covers iMessage, SMS, and RCS chats on Mac. ChatGPT can pull information from messages, flag conversations needing follow-up, find birthdays and spot possible spam. It links messaging to other tasks, such as checking a calendar before suggesting dinner times. Letting an AI read and […]

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