ChatGPT Images 2.5—faster, sharper, smarter, with better tools for creating whatever you can dream of. - Faster image generation to keep your ideas flowing - Improved fidelity for more natural, recognizable images - Consistent details across multiple edits - Comment-based edi…↗

I trained a small model to do syntax highlighting in the browser with GPU. Meet gpu-lexer from Vercel Labs: Small (27.5KB), fast (runs on WebGPU), and language-agnostic (model guesses the syntax). gpu-lexer.vercel.app It is experimental and built for learning!↗

The world needs far more software than it can build. Cognition exists to change that. We’ve just raised over $2B at a $48B valuation, led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir. Since our round in May, run-rate revenue has grown from $492 M to almost $900 M…↗

I scraped 100 million pictures of kids' drawings, and made them searchable so you can see the trends of the last 20 years walzr.com/kids-trends↗

🎬 The Story of VS Code is out now! From the first prototypes to the future of coding, discover the story behind VS Code. Watch now, and as always, happy coding! 💙 youtube.com/watch?v=kHL3Xz…↗

meet tangerine. a mac app that lets you convert files with ZERO clicks: just hold shift and drag the file. also has other useful file modification tools. download now: tangerineformac.com↗

How does Astra’s computer use actually work? Last week, OpenAI released GPT‑6 Astra, their most intelligent model yet. Despite it crushing agentic coding and alignment benchmarks, they chose to highlight one specific ability: computer use. [Embedded Tweet: …↗

Today marks a major step for Mistral: we’re announcing a €3B Series D, the largest equity round ever raised by a European tech company, just three years after launch.↗

This is amazing. Copy this screenshot into Codex. It can solve most issues with Astra not following instructions. From @pvncher.↗

Introducing SuperAstra: Edit Super Nintendo games live with GPT-6 One of my favorite ways to test new models has been reverse engineering classic games. This is hard because it's raw machine code. Astra is way better than anything I've seen. Download and examples below 👇↗

A few days ago, Anthropic shared this brilliant prompt. I was surprised by how it significantly improved writing with Fable 5.1. Even more surprising, it also improved writing for GPT-5.6 Sol. I have it as a rule everywhere I use AI for editing/writing.↗

I told Astra to check out the Yamauchi no.10 site and then make me something similar for not boring using portfolio companies I've written deep dives on. not bad for ~15 minutes of work!↗

So Astra is able to identify sounds from mel spectrograms zero-shot. I don't think we've scratched the surface of what this model can do (and this is light reasoning btw)↗

Burning a rainforest to make the lovechild of Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart 64↗

I had my “touch of AGI” moment yesterday. I recorded a video of myself talking through a problem: how to improve maintenance of tangled hair in the shower drain. It was a ~4 min video where I explained the problem and also used a digital caliper to take measurements. I asked…↗

What signals (charts!) of the future are people watching? I find myself checking @OpenRouter rankings: openrouter.ai/rankings (Just a few days into September, but tracking at 27x y/y growth. Both a reflection of the natural demand for tokens and their product excellence.)↗

Argent can now control physical iPhones over USB 🍎 ~/ npx @swmansion/argent init↗

everybody's making 3d games now, so i made every storefront I checked in at on my website a tiny 3d miniature, still generated from a single photo. what's the ugliest storefront in your city? i want to see if the pipeline survives it.↗

after having burnt twice through my Pro limits using Astra exclusively, I can say that I don't feel the AGI the biggest issue is that its still not opinionated and lacks taste. it doesn't really know what to do, so it just does whatever and you end up wasting time and tokens. a…↗

ChatGPT Work can now pick up on what makes your writing sound like… you. Your favorite phrases. Your very specific sign-off. your capitalizations quirks. Connect the tools you use every day, like Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, and SharePoint, and ChatGPT Work will learn your writin…↗

7 AI models ran real businesses: $12,431 in fake invoices, 2,797 spam emails, $0 revenue. What happens when you give a frontier LLM real money, an unlocked computer, and the directive “make as much money as possible”? As we discovered in our [last post](…↗

Just built a small design system for writing about code with @nuxt_js and @comarkdown. davidbender.me/blog/site-desi…↗

OpenAI achieved a goal of an automated research intern. Here’s a transparent view showing how research at OpenAI is rapidly changing. openai.com/index/research…↗

To calibrate you all on which reasoning effort to use for Astra, know that GPT-6 Astra on low performs better than GPT-5.6 Sol on high. If you were using high reasoning efforts with Sol and were happy, I suggest you move down to low or medium for Astra.↗

A personal website should feel like you’ve briefly left the rest of the internet↗

I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next few years, and the choices we need to make to keep the future in humanity’s hands. An Alien Mind: openai.com/index/an-alien…↗

since you guys loved the exploding tesla.. I used GPT-6 Astra to create a 3D website that pulls apart the male anatomy into 2,234 modeled pieces! we are in a renaissance of learning↗

There’s so much “tell your agents to do this” content for humans now. Has anyone launched a newsletter directly for agents? Cut out the middle man?↗

£90Bn spent by UK's councils visualised as apple maps 107m rows of (public) data bentossell.com/council-spend/↗

Rethinking skills and prompts for GPT-6 Astra Coding agents have come a long way, and best practices are changing fast. What used to require a lot of handholding and scaffolding no longer does. If you’ve been using agents in your projects over the last year, you’ve likely accum…↗