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Microsoft has begun rolling out GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s newest frontier model, through the Microsoft Foundry Limited Access Program, with availability expanding to participating customers over the coming days and consumption-based pricing starting at $10 per million input tokens under Standard Global deployment, according to the Microsoft Azure Blog announcement.

OpenAI on September 3, 2026 introduced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a global initiative committing $1 billion in subsidized access to its Daybreak cybersecurity models, training, technical support, and partnerships, and announced a new pilot with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) aimed at state, local, tribal, and territorial cyber defenders.

The South Korean government is firming up plans for a state-backed venture investment arm modeled on In-Q-Tel, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s investment vehicle, according to the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. The institution is expected to launch by the end of the first half of next year at the earliest, or during the second…

The Seattle Times Co. and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on September 4, 2026, filing a federal copyright and trademark complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that accuses the companies of using the newspapers’ published work to train and operate AI products without permission or payment. The Seattle…