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Three hikers went up Mount Shasta with Gemini helping them plan the trip.
They ended up needing to be rescued. 😬 Not exactly the kind of product review Google was hoping for.
Anyway, AI had quite a week. 👀
Here's what else happened in AI while you were busy.
GPT-6 Astra is now available in the API
GPT-6 Astra completed Portal for under $600
Gemini’s hiking advice ended in a rescue
Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft
GPT-6 Astra landed in Perplexity Computer
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GPT-6 Astra has now been put through a rather unusual test: playing the entire game Portal. One user got the model through the game in under 24 hours, with the whole experiment costing less than $600.
It is a fun demonstration of what happens when a model gets access to a computer instead of being limited to a chat box. The experiment also highlights how resource-intensive long-running AI tasks can become.
Three hikers on California’s Mount Shasta were rescued after using Google Gemini to help plan their expedition. AI-generated advice underestimated what they would need for the trip, according to reports.
It is a useful reminder that AI trip planning still needs a reality check. When the advice involves remote terrain, weather, equipment, or survival, a confident answer is not the same thing as reliable expertise.
The Seattle Times and Newsday have joined the growing legal fight over how AI companies use journalism to train their models. Both publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing that their reporting was used without permission.
The lawsuits add more pressure to an already crowded copyright battle between publishers and AI companies. At the heart of it is a question that keeps getting harder to avoid: who gets paid when AI learns from the work journalists create?
GPT-6 Astra is expanding beyond ChatGPT. OpenAI says the model is now available through the API, while Astra is also rolling out in ChatGPT Work and Codex for eligible paid users.
That makes the release much more significant for developers and businesses. Astra is no longer something you only try inside a chatbot. It is becoming a model developers can build into their own AI workflows.
Perplexity Computer is bringing GPT-6 Astra to Pro and Max subscribers, giving users another powerful model to choose from inside its AI-powered computer environment.
The move puts OpenAI’s latest model directly into Perplexity’s workflow, where users can switch between models while getting AI to handle more complex tasks. For Perplexity users, that means GPT-6 Astra is now another option sitting right inside the toolbox. 👀
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OpenAI’s researchers are increasingly handing more of their work to AI agents, from writing code to running experiments and tackling longer research tasks.
By mid-August, researchers were using the equivalent of 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday. OpenAI says the goal is bigger than faster coding: it’s building toward AI that can independently handle real research work.
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