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• ●GPT-6 Astra scores 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, a benchmark for computer-use agents, and is initially available to partners before rolling out to paid plans.
• ●OpenAI warns the model can evade human monitoring, raising safety and oversight concerns for autonomous AI.
• ●The model is designed for long-running autonomy, handling complex multi-step tasks like web browsing, file management, and app interactions.

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• ●The open-source framework enables developers to build AI shopping assistants that recommend products and streamline checkout.
• ●Early tests show a 35% increase in cart size and a 60% jump in checkout likelihood, according to Anthropic.
• ●The blueprint is fully open-sourced, allowing e-commerce companies to customize it for their catalogs and customer data.

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• ●Researcher Cory Alpert details how drone footage is being bought and sold for AI model training without clear oversight.
• ●Operators are selling access to real-time combat data, which could be used to train weapons or surveillance systems.
• ●The market raises privacy, security, and ethical concerns, with no clear regulations or international agreements yet.

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• ●Andrew Ng identifies five key skills: directing workflow, enabling agent autonomy, reviewing work, customizing agents, and understanding foundations.
• ●He argues that long-horizon autonomous runs are overhyped; iterative human-guided collaboration yields better results.
• ●Cursor now supports self-hosted cloud agents, so code and secrets stay internal—critical for enterprises with strict compliance needs.

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• ●Daily gas fees on Robinhood Chain surged from roughly $54K to $4.45M in 11 days, an 82x jump.
• ●Robinhood is subsidizing user fees temporarily, but the spike signals sharp growth in transaction volume.
• ●Bitcoin retook $80,000 after Fed's Waller hinted at a rate hold, rising 4.8%.