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GPT-6 Astra's first 48 hours bring real-world use from architecture to robotics

No.18 · Monday, September 7, 2026 · Today in AI

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1. 01GPT-6 Astra's first 48 hours bring real-world use from architecture to roboticsOpenAI calls Astra the start of the AGI era, but safety experts worry its reasoning can't be fully read
2. 02G20 Chapel Hill event shows optimism inside, data center protests outsideAs Altman, Huang and Karp talked up infrastructure buildout, hundreds gathered outside the hotel gates to challenge promises on water, power and jobs
3. 03Higgsfield's Genjutsu swaps out backgrounds while keeping the performance and cameraOn August 31, Higgsfield launched Genjutsu, a tool that swaps out the people and locations in a video without any reshooting. The company also showed a demo linking a phone to a Blender viewport to carry handheld camera movement straight into the render.
4. 04Claude completes first computer-verified proof of Fermat's Last TheoremAnthropic's Claude wrote 13 million lines of Lean code over 11 days to formalize one of mathematics' toughest problems
5. 059 Claude Lane, the insurance company that never sleepsA narrow alley in San Francisco's financial district now has a café that keeps its lights on at three in the morning. It sells coffee, but the owner is an AI insurance company — and its founder says he sleeps three or four hours a night because he's going to die anyway.
6. 06NVIDIA Confirms Official Guide for Connecting Two, Three, and Four DGX Spark UnitsTwo or three units connect directly with QSFP cables, but four require a switch. NVIDIA's official documentation now includes an approved cable list and an automatic setup tool
7. 07Runway unveils playable world model with soundThree days after unveiling Solaris, which renders screens, the company has now released GWM Worlds 2 — a real-time world model that adds sound. Why is a video company shifting its focus toward rendering spaces?