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Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, announced September 3, expands access to frontier cyber AI, training and support for organizations running essential services. Enrolled organizations received Astra ahead of Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise subscribers. OpenAI
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OpenAI published "Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards" on September 1, declaring Astra the first model to meet the Critical cybersecurity threshold in its Preparedness Framework (OpenAI). Critical, in their own definition, means the model can find and...
The official DALL·E GPT is being removed from ChatGPT on August 30, with users told to download images they want to keep and use ChatGPT Images instead. Separately, ChatGPT now supports connecting multiple accounts for the Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Contacts plugins, so...
The email went out August 15 alongside a preview of the updated EU privacy policy covering how ads get selected, measured, and controlled (OpenAI). The legally significant choice is the GDPR basis: explicit consent for personalized ads is a stricter posture than most ad platfo...
Shipped August 13 to Pro, Business and Enterprise: ChatGPT and Codex can draw on activity memories from apps and websites on macOS, with per-app opt-in and review or delete controls. OpenAI This is Cursor's Google Workspace connector move, but reaching down to OS-level activit...
He posted an apology for the messy rollout and said broad rollout would start with Pro subscribers, after Daybreak-enrolled enterprises got access ahead of the Pro tier that normally goes first. OpenAI committed to one banked reset for every day a paid ChatGPT plan lacks Astra...
An open-weight Chinese frontier model is now a dropdown option in Microsoft's coding product. That happened before anyone finished characterizing what the model does. GitHub's changelog dated August 6 makes Kimi K3 generally available across Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business an...
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