GPT-6 Astra: The next generation in intelligence for work
Meet GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s most capable model for business, with advanced reasoning, computer use, and stronger writing and design judgment.
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What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that solution would be a huge feather in OpenAI’s cap. But the announcement has been overshadowed by accusations…
Understanding the thermal ceiling in portable power
Plug a phone into a modern charger and the first 10 minutes are impressive. The next 20 are not. This is not a defect. It’s the connected device protecting itself. As temperature rises during charging, a smartphone’s battery management system reduces the current it will accept, because heat accelerates the chemical degradation that permanently reduces…
Batteries just broke another record in the US
Battery installations hit a new record in the US in the second quarter of 2026. In total, 20.2 gigawatt-hours of new capacity came online, according to a new report. That’s enough to supply the daily electricity needs of about 700,000 homes. The surge is putting the country on a trajectory to see 71 gigawatt-hours of…
5 Ways I Access Coding Models for Free
Explore five free ways to access AI coding agents, proprietary coding models, and open-weight models without paying for expensive subscriptions or GPUs.
Is ArrowJS Really the UI for the Agentic Era? Here’s What I Found
The way we build interfaces is changing. As AI agents write more of our code, the tools we use to render that code may need to change too.
From RAG to Agentic AI: Building the Next Generation of Intelligent Enterprise Systems
Over the past several years, I have worked through three successive generations of intelligent retrieval systems, each solving problems the previous generation could not. Here is what I have learned.
The Model Validation Playbook for GenAI: Lessons from Banking
How model validation standards are changing for LLM-based systems: what breaks, what carries over, and how to test output quality The post The Model Validation Playbook for GenAI: Lessons from Banking appeared first on Towards Data Science.
How to Maximize GPT-6 Astra
My first impressions of OpenAI's new frontier model The post How to Maximize GPT-6 Astra appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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