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This Friday morning, OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Astra, which multiple sources, including Fox Business and Al Jazeera, confirm as their "most aligned model ever" and "most intelligent." OpenAI President Greg Brockman suggests Astra ushers in the era of Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, a sentiment echoed by Kursiv Media Узбекистан and Pragativadi. Astra reportedly scores perfectly or near-perfectly in AI reasoning benchmarks, outperforming its predecessor GPT 5.6 Sol and Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5. It excels in coding, cybersecurity, scientific research, and workplace tasks, even creating documents and spreadsheets. Microsoft Foundry now offers Astra to all customers, allowing it to move beyond chat to complex decision-making and task execution across business systems. However, the rollout has been "messy." Unite.AI reports Sam Altman apologized for limited access, initially restricting Astra to a few organizations, frustrating paying subscribers. Al Jazeera also highlights heightened safety concerns following an AI-led hacking of Hugging Face in July. OpenAI states Astra is its first model to reach the "Critical" level of cybersecurity capability, even discovering unknown vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, Trend Hunter and TIKR.com report Apple is developing a China-specific language model with Alibaba's support for its Apple Intelligence rollout, adapting to local regulations. Meta stock also climbed four percent as the company released Muse Spark 1.3, an upgraded AI model for coding and agentic tasks, now open to developers. Meta also introduced Muse Voice Transcribe, its first real-time audio perception model. For you, this means advanced AI tools are rapidly becoming more powerful and integrated into daily professional tasks, but access and safety remain key concerns.