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OpenAI has released GPT-six Astra, its most powerful model yet, while simultaneously warning that it carries critical cybersecurity risks, capable of autonomously finding and exploiting unknown vulnerabilities. The company says years of research justified the release, limiting early access to vetted participants after user frustration prompted a public apology from Sam Altman.
Closer to the financial world, Robinhood is standing firm after AMC threatened legal action over its stock tokens program. Securities lawyers say AMC has weak grounds for a challenge under existing law, though they note the tokens' branding and marketing language could give AMC just enough room to mount a credible dispute. Robinhood's response was essentially: go ahead and try.
And in the job market, one developer has used locally-run AI to submit nearly two hundred job applications in under five days, with the only human input being solving captchas. By running models locally rather than through cloud APIs, they estimate saving at least four hundred dollars in token costs, raising real questions about what automated hiring pipelines mean for employers and applicants alike.
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