OpenAI launches dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra

Latent Space podcast covers OpenAI's new developer stack — async tool calling, mid-turn steering, WebSockets, UltraFast inference, the Decisions API, prompt caching, pre-warming, compaction, and the Agents API. Ari Weinstein says computer use is now "180 degrees different" and can beat the average human on some tasks.

A solo developer building a sci-fi horror game published 16 step-by-step ComfyUI lessons plus a site explaining every node and setting, created with Claude after finding existing tutorials assumed prior knowledge.

SCLATE is an execution substrate where benchmarks and unmodified agents add events to one open scheduler on a hybrid simulated clock. Porting seven benchmarks and comparing ten harness/memory configs on ten models showed added memory doesn't reliably beat a harness's native memory.

Stanford HAI seminar pairs Instacart Economics' Alexandr Lenk with a second perspective on how AI adoption diffuses through peer networks inside firms and what happens to the people working in them.

A Reddit user reports three concurrent issues on their ChatGPT account, including a "suspicious activity detected" alert, while logged in only from a phone and laptop. They note another user in a recent thread described the same problem.

Google's flu forecasting model best matched observed hospital admissions for the 2025-26 season out of 39 eligible models in the CDC's FluSight challenge. Forecasts were built with Empirical Research Assistance, an AI tool that generates optimization algorithms, with research published in Nature.

Developers report that OpenAI and Anthropic safety filters are triggering on ordinary coding tasks, costing them time, according to VentureBeat. The piece covers the friction between provider safeguards and day-to-day developer workflows.