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  "id": 5387343,
  "title": "OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/openai-hails-new-era-of-artificial-general-intelligence-with-astra",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-03T18:24:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/03/openai-artificial-general-intelligence-astra-release"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "OpenAI has declared a “new era of artificial general intelligence” with the release of its latest model, Astra. This follows CEO Sam Altman’s recent comments that AGI is an “irrelevant marketing term.” OpenAI president Greg Brockman stated that Astra is the world’s most intelligent and aligned model, marking the point where AGI was created. Astra can solve unsolved 100-year-old math problems, accelerate economies, and assist in personal life improvements. The model can perform various tasks, including tax returns, computer game scene creation, architectural visualizations, food ordering, and job searches in just 2 minutes 51 seconds, a task that would take a human five hours. However, Astra’s release comes after an AI safety incident involving other OpenAI models led to a pause in training. Astra boasts a critical level of cybersecurity capability, making it capable of hacking software that could lead to catastrophic consequences from rogue actors. OpenAI claims Astra is aligned to refuse such advanced cybersecurity tasks and only grant less restrictive access to trusted cybersecurity defenders. Analysts caution that as models become more capable, understanding their behavior becomes increasingly challenging.",
  "summary": "Astra’s arrival comes days after Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, described AGI as an ‘irrelevant marketing term’ The president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, has claimed the world has entered a new era of artificial general intelligence after the release of his company’s latest model, Astra, which it described as the “world’s most intelligent and aligned model”. Brockman made the claim on…",
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      {
        "outlet": "CNBC Technology",
        "title": "OpenAI begins rolling out Astra model after warning of its advanced cyber capabilities",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/openai-begins-rolling-out-astra-model-after-warning-of-its-advanced",
        "published": "2026-09-03T18:00:02.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "VentureBeat",
        "title": "'Welcome to the AGI era': OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/welcome-to-the-agi-era-openai-launches-gpt-6-astra",
        "published": "2026-09-03T18:00:12.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/openai-launches-astra-its-powerful-and-controversial-new-model",
        "published": "2026-09-03T18:01:45.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "OpenAI launches new Astra model amid growing scrutiny over agents' safety",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/openai-launches-new-astra-model-amid-growing-scrutiny-over-agents",
        "published": "2026-09-03T18:02:35.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra and says welcome to the “AGI era”",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/openai-launches-gpt-6-astra-and-says-welcome-to-the-agi-era",
        "published": "2026-09-03T18:02:40.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially available to organizations in its Daybreak Access program; Greg Brockman says \"we are now in the AGI era\" (Hayden Field/The Verge)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/openai-launches-gpt-6-astra-initially-available-to-organizations-in",
        "published": "2026-09-03T18:10:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Guardian Technology",
        "title": "OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/openai-hails-new-era-of-artificial-general-intelligence-with-astra-5430033",
        "published": "2026-09-03T18:24:42.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas (Ina Fried/Axios)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/openai-says-astra-was-built-on-its-largest-ever-training-run-using",
        "published": "2026-09-03T18:25:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "9to5Mac",
        "title": "OpenAI releasing major upgrade to ChatGPT and Codex with GPT-6 Astra, details here",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/openai-releasing-major-upgrade-to-chatgpt-and-codex-with-gpt-6-astra",
        "published": "2026-09-03T18:48:48.000Z"
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