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OpenAI’s chief scientist says no lab should be scaling at full speed Jakub Pachocki published an essay called An Alien Mind on Sunday, and the load-bearing sentence is this one: “no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.” That is OpenAI’s chief …

Is GPT-6 Astra really AGI or are we just seeing corporate marketing? Nvidia says AGI is here with GPT-6 Astra, but behind the scenes, their $100B deal with OpenAI remains unsigned as chip buying slows. Read the real story. Key Takeaways What: GPT-6 Astra’s launch sparked corporate claims that AGI has arrived [1, 2]. Why: …

OpenAI and Anthropic are sitting on extreme customer concentration risk The AI boom looks like a massive mass-market movement on the surface, but under the hood, foundation model startups are dangerously dependent on a tiny group of power users. Just 1% of enterprise customers generate 80% of total revenue for both OpenAI and Anthropic, exposing …

Why is Apple skipping the standard iPhone 18 at its September event? Why do US iPhone 18 Pro Max models have larger batteries? See how Apple’s eSIM-only design frees up physical space for a bigger 5,567mAh battery. Key Takeaways What: US-bound iPhone 18 Pro Max models feature a larger 5,567mAh battery than overseas versions. Why: …

Summary Power BI is changing how subscription notification emails are delivered to improve reliability, sender reputation, and long-term service health. Some tenants and subscription scenarios will see updates to sender identity, email formatting, notification presentation, and Copilot-generated summary formatting. Existing subscriptions remain in place; users do not need to recreate subscriptions or change recipient lists/schedules. …

Summary Microsoft Edge is retiring support for Manifest V2 (MV2) browser extensions and moving fully to Manifest V3 (MV3). Affected environments include consumer and enterprise Edge users, admins who deploy or allow-list extensions, and developers who publish Edge Add-ons. MV2 extensions will be deprecated, blocked from new installs, and eventually disabled/removed from policy-based support in …

Summary Microsoft Teams mobile will get a redesigned header and lightweight dashboard for chats and channels. The new experience surfaces channel details, people, and pinned content in one place to make navigation and common actions easier on mobile. Users on Teams mobile devices are affected; desktop behavior is not changing in this post. No configuration …

OpenAI says we might be in the AGI era now OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its new frontier model that Greg Brockman is calling a “generational leap.” He personally thinks OpenAI has reached AGI with this one, ending the launch briefing with “Welcome to the AGI era.” So there’s that. Astra was trained on 100,000+ GPUs …

Summary Dynamics 365 Finance is adding support for Brazil tax reform requirements relevant to organizations operating in Brazil. The feature includes new tax functionality such as the IS tax type, fiscal note/event updates, split payments, posting logic for reformed tax, and CNPJ updates. This is a compliance-focused update for Finance and Operations Apps customers doing …

Summary Microsoft is retiring support for referenced linked entities in Power Platform Dataflows, which are used to let one dataflow consume tables from another. New referenced linked entities will be blocked, and existing ones will stop being supported after the retirement date. Power Platform admins and dataflow owners should identify any dataflows that depend on …

Summary Microsoft Dataverse environments hosted in NAM will receive a minor service update to version 9.2.26085.00000 or higher. The update is a planned maintenance activity and is expected to have no service degradation or availability loss. During the maintenance window, users may experience brief intermittent issues such as transient SQL errors or being redirected to …