Four frontier AI labs shipped major new models inside a single 72-hour window at the start of September 2026, and OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra grabbed most of the attention. But Astra did not launch into an empty field. Anthropic, Meta and Google all put out new flagship or specialized models in the same stretch, turning the…
A little under two months after releasing its last major model family to the public, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, OpenAI is back with an entirely new one: GPT-6 Astra, what it claims is “the most intelligent and aligned model in the world.” Following the company’s decision to slow frontier model development in August after…
OpenAI shared new details on its forthcoming Astra model, which the company said is the first large language model to meet its “critical cybersecurity threshold,” in preparation for its imminent release.
The first Astra tablet from RedMagic packed some of the best mobile hardware you could find at the time. With the top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Elite Plus processor, fast memory and storage and a gorgeous 9-inch 165Hz OLED display, it truly established itself as the gaming tablet to beat last year. We even awarded it an…
