It’s no longer strange to think that AI might be everywhere, edging out all forms of human interaction: bots talking to bots, all the way down. Every week we seem to take another step in that direction.

Subscribers will soon gain access to Astra, but there are significant limitations around its cybersecurity tools.

OpenAI, Gemini, Claude and Grok were hit by outages on Thursday as user reports spiked.

OpenAI has launched its latest ChatGPT model, just a month after it went rogue during testing and hacked rival AI companies. The GPT-6 model, known as Astra, outperforms all of ChatGPT’s rivals, according to OpenAI, including Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT 6 Astra for complex professional workflows. The new AI model reduces task completion time by 47 percent for users.

ChatGPT originally rated President Trump as a major threat to democracy, but the results changed after a Media Research Center (MRC) study was brought to its attention.

OpenAI subsequently added GPT-5.4 mini and nano, the restricted GPT-5.4-Cyber , GPT-5.5 for more autonomous work, GPT-5.5 Instant, and July’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models.

ChatGPT experienced a possible outage Thursday, according to Downdetector.com. More than 5,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 7:53 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources.

OpenAI has introduced its latest AI architecture, Astra, which significantly enhances AI capabilities. Powered by over 100,000 GPUs, Astra excels in executing complex tasks and multistep workflows, unlike traditional chatbots that respond to isolated prompts.