Tesla confirmed on Tuesday that Grok inside its cars can now do real work, not only answer questions and change cabin settings. Drivers already able to wake the assistant from the App Launcher, a long press on the steering wheel microphone, or a spoken “Hey Grok” can ask it to check an inbox, tidy a calendar, or walk through files, chats, and tasks without picking up a phone. Tesla’s own post put it plainly: Grok in the car can now do meaningful work for you, all hands-free.
Luke Creatives spent more than eight months on a soda machine that listens to a spoken request and mixes a drink from a bank of concentrated flavors. Ordinary fountain buttons give you one listed option. This cabinet aims at anything you can say out loud, from strawberry lemonade to a summer night, and it draws on roughly half a million possible mixes to do it.
Google Research and HHMI Janelia’s FlyEM team released MaleCNS v1.0 earlier this month, a complete wiring diagram of an adult male fruit fly’s brain and ventral nerve cord. More than 166,000 neurons and about 125 million synapses sit in that public map, rebuilt from electron-microscope slices of a real Drosophila with machine-learning reconstruction. Hobbyists spent the next two weeks pointing those cells at DOOM, Beat Saber, Minecraft, a Rubik’s Cube, crypto tickers, and a parallel-parking drill. Then someone pointed them at Jimbo from Balatro.
Vals AI, a completely independent evaluator, tested OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra by throwing it into Minecraft and allowing it to its own tools for 141 hours with only ordinary computer controls: screen, mouse, and keyboard. No fancy game-modifying plug-ins were employed. Thousands of people tuned in to the Twitch stream to watch how it performed. Which wasn’t surprising given that the first, shorter attempt had already created a Nether portal in two and a half hours, long before the game had ever been released. Finally, Astra was the first system Vals had witnessed approach a Nether Castle.
Brian Kelly used to buy coverage with people. Seven or eight employees sat in New York, Hong Kong, and California so his cryptocurrency fund could watch markets through every time zone. Salaries, health coverage, office space, bonuses, and compute pushed labor-related costs to about $5 million a year. He closed that shop in early 2025 and took a pause.
Meta One went live today as a paid layer across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Meta AI, grouping more than 50 extras that sit on top of the free apps. Plans already collected 15 million subscriptions and trials during earlier tests, and Meta says later waves will reach Edits and AI glasses. Everyday feeds, chats, and basic Meta AI stay free.
Pamir AI built Lapis One so an agent can stop borrowing the family laptop. This finished 85 by 85 by 28 millimeter computer weighs 227 grams and looks closer to a small consumer gadget than a development board you still have to case. Painted white aluminum or anodized black aluminum wraps a plastic top shell. A Sharp 240 by 400 monochrome memory LCD sits on the face, the same low-power panel family used in Panic’s Playdate, so status lines and task notes can stay visible all day without chewing through the 3,300 mAh battery.
Neon put the first official teaser for Artificial in front of viewers this morning, and Andrew Garfield already looks settled into Sam Altman’s skin. Luca Guadagnino directed the 140-minute film from a screenplay by Simon Rich. It covers the five days in November 2023 when OpenAI’s board removed Altman as chief executive and then brought him back while the company sat at the center of a race to control the technology that would soon sit on every phone and laptop.
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra in early September as a model meant for long computer work, and within days an independent experimenter named cozyblaze wired it to Valve’s 2007 first-person puzzle game Portal. By the evening of September 5 in San Francisco, the agent had walked Chell through every test chamber, the escape, and the last exchange with GLaDOS. Credits rolled with no human hand on the keys.
On September 3, OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra, which the company describes as the most intelligent and aligned model it has ever released. Access begins with a small number of organizations and will gradually spread to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise accounts over the next few days. Developers can refer to it as gpt-6-astra whether utilizing the OpenAI API, Microsoft Azure, or AWS Bedrock.