Last September, Steve Ballmer insisted in an ESPN interview that the Clippers weren't involved in a shady-looking $28 million endorsement deal for his star player, Kawhi Leonard, that involved no actual endorsing. Now, the former Microsoft CEO has been suspended by the NBA for a year, while the league says his team will forfeit five […]
The billionaire investor is under two subpoenas from the House Oversight Committee. But in his lawsuit, Black says the panel doesn't have the authority to compel him to share nondisclosure agreements.
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Hello Everyone! We've just released Chrome 153 (153.0.8010.27) for Android to a small percentage of users. It'll become available on Google Play over the next few days. You can find more details about early Stable releases here . This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Harry Souders Google Chrome
In a livestreamed keynote on Thursday, OpenAI president Greg Brockman announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a new global initiative to The post OpenAI spends $1 billion to expand Daybreak to defend power, water, and banking appeared first on The New Stack .
Use production traffic and security signals to prioritize findings, prepare edge mitigations when safe, and propose code patches. By combining WAF data with OpenAI Daybreak models, Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation helps teams identify and patch the most critical threats first.
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary block on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election.
We’re continuing to make trusted publishing smoother for npm publishers, guided by maintainers feedback. Three updates to npm publishing are now generally available: Multiple trusted publishing configurations per package Staged… The post Multiple trusted publishing configurations for npm appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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GPT‑6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is "rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS" - I've not tried it yet myself, so I don't have a great deal to say about it yet. It's going to be API priced at the same rate as Claude Fable 5 and 5.1: $10/million input and $50/million output. This is clearly OpenAI's Fable competitor, and appears to score higher than Fable on most of OpenAI's self-reported benchmarks. Most impressively, Astra scores 99.9% on the recent (released in March) ARC-AGI 3 benchmark - though notably Fable 5 does not yet have a published result, and the ARC-AGI blog notes that the 99.9% score was achieved for $19K using OpenAI's custom "Provider Adapter harness", while the default ARC-AGI harness scored 62.7% for $26K. The Provider Adapter harness preserves opaque reasoning state between requests and uses compaction for longer conversations, allowing the model to reuse prior work. Unsurprisingly, given the recent Hugging Face incident , Astra is a beast at security tasks. It scores 100% on ExploitBench (GPT-5.6 Sol got 78.5%), 42.4% on ExploitGym (Sol got 30.3%), and 99.2% within four attempts on SRE-Bench binary reverse engineering compared to Sol's 68.7%. It's also better at long context: on OpenAI's eight-needle benchmark it got 100% at 256K–512K tokens and 96.3% at 512K–1M tokens. OpenAI may have vanquished one of the ongoing challenges with long context processing. It doesn't win at everything though. Artificial Analysis note that Astra is still beaten by Fable on their Intelligence Index: Sits beside GPT-5.6 Sol in Intelligence : GPT-6 Astra scores equal to GPT-5.6 Sol in the Index at 61. This is 5 points lower than Claude Fable 5.1 (max with fallback). The model also trails Meta’s newly released Muse Spark 1.3 (max). It did better on their Coding Agent Index: Leads Coding Agent Index cost efficiency frontier : At max effort, GPT-6 Astra costs about the same as GPT-5.6 Sol (max) while scoring 2 points higher on the Index. Per task, the model is less than half the cost of Claude Fable 5, for the same score. I'll write more about Astra once I get access to it. The API model label once it rolls out will be gpt-6-astra . OpenAI's blog keeps throwing 500 errors, but [here's a mirror](https://astratest.codergautam.workers.dev/GPT-6%20Astra_%20A%20new%20generation%20of%20intelligence%20_%20OpenAI) of the post I found [via Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554273#49555070). --> Via Hacker News Tags: ai , openai , generative-ai , llms , llm-release
A metrics dashboard can tell you a system’s health with ease. A log can help you understand a discrete failure. The post How to find failures without drowning in tracing data appeared first on The New Stack .