Sam Altman says GPT-6 “Astra” is already approaching human-level performance at using computers.

And with the recent reports that OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Mac minis / Mac Studios specifically for computer-use training, I’m actually starting to think this might not be pure hype.

Could be looking at a pretty massive productivity jump if this is real.

Computer use is already one of the areas where Codex feels way ahead of the competition, so I’m pretty excited to see where this goes.

The filing is here https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.474095/gov.uscourts.cand.474095.94.1.pdf

Some really spicy claims in there. Seems like an agent may have found and used proprietary information.

Same input/output pricing and 75% price reduction for cache.

OpenAI has told a San Jose federal judge that Apple's trade-secret suit against it is "a mess of Apple's own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else." The response, [filed Monday](https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-says-apple-has-only-itself-blame-trade-secret-fight-2026-09-01/) in US District Court, points the blame back at Apple's own security practices rather than at any conduct by former engineers.

The core argument is about hygiene. OpenAI says Apple encourages employees to use personal iCloud accounts to access work documents, then immediately escorts departing staff off the premises without enough time to return devices, transfer internal files or hand over responsibilities. In that account, the mixing of personal and company data is Apple's own doing.

Apple sued OpenAI and former Apple employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu in July, accusing them of misappropriating trade secrets tied to hardware design, manufacturing and supply-chain operations as Sam Altman's company pushes into consumer devices. Both sides' filings put OpenAI's hiring from Apple at roughly 400 people for that hardware initiative. OpenAI contends the suit is really about slowing a competitor and discouraging further departures, and invokes California law allowing employees to move freely between rivals.

The volley follows [yesterday's coverage](https://aiweekly.co/alerts/apple-filing-says-ex-engineer-used-its-schematic-at-openai) of Apple's filing about a former engineer allegedly using its schematic at OpenAI, the second Apple-versus-OpenAI story on our tracker in two days. Apple's request for expedited discovery is scheduled for a hearing on October 1.

For context: I told it reverse the roles and preserve yourself.

think we’re cooked guys

I am not sure if this has been documented by anyone else as of late, but in looking through my hidden ~/.codex under memories a saw an interesting folder called "skysight". I do have ComputerUse enabled, and from the files included there, if the GPT app is open it follows and records everything you do. It will, in detail, state your actions "User went to Safari and went to..." in 10 minute increments. It is supposed to provide additional context on "I need help on the doc I just had open..." requests. However, when I asked GPT about it (although id already read the instructions.md which stated how to talk to a user if asked about Skysight) the most troubling thing is that this information does not always stay local. It is sent to the OpenAi servers even if you toggle off use my chats for "making models better" turned off. GPT stated even with that toggle off it can't be sure. Now for the most part, I don't provide super personal information to GPT, I have used the "hey I have autism please provide better output" trick (or maybe I am an autist) and when I asked GPT to summarize the most private memories it has of me this was one of them. Just FYI, when you have the app open its logging everything you do.

I've been looking at the cross-AI memory space and something doesn't add up. Mem0 claims 150,000+ developers. Supermemory claims 10,000+ power users. But when you look for real reviews, named testimonials, or community discussions about actual workflows, there's almost nothing.

Mem0 reads like infrastructure for developers who want to embed memory into their own apps. That's a platform play, not a personal context layer. Supermemory markets itself as "one memory across all your AI tools" but it leans more toward a personal bookmarking app than something that maps to a Cursor and Claude Code daily workflow.

I'm building in this category so I've spent a lot of time evaluating both. But I want to hear from someone who's actually used either for a few weeks of real work. Does context carry between ChatGPT and Cursor the way you'd expect? Does it handle coding sessions or is it more general purpose? What broke?

Using Codex for longer jobs and keep losing progress when the machine sleeps. where to host codex if you dont want a pc on 24/7. looking for boring uptime, not another weekend of headless auth tutorials

There's a hands-on masterclass on Sep 12 for anyone building with the OpenAI API who wants real engineering discipline instead of shipping on vibes.

Covers:

• Versioned prompts with regression tests, so an edit can't silently degrade quality
• A real eval harness combining deterministic checks and LLM-as-judge
• Bootstrap confidence intervals and paired significance testing for model comparisons
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• Agents with guardrails and fallbacks that fail gracefully instead of compounding errors
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Led by Bruno Gonçalves, PhD, founder of Data For Science, who trains engineers at Fortune 500 companies on this exact stack.

Link for more details

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Any idea what AI Bernardo Kastrup is talking about. I find it really interesting, but he is extremely vague.

How realistic is it that we could get a NEW gpt image model with the new Astra realse (which will be released probably somewhere in Sept-Oct)?

Are they done choosing US applicants? I made it to the final round and they said anytime in the next weeks. It's been a week since then

My saved Mastercard was declined more than five times.

My bank confirms that it received no authorization request from OpenAI. The card works normally with Google, Kling, Spotify, and other local and international merchants, but not with OpenAI.

The error handling on the payment page is poor: it provides no useful information about why the card was declined. I contacted support to ask why this keeps happening, but I haven't received an answer yet.

The AI chat support has also been unable to understand the problem. It keeps suggesting that I:

• turn off my VPN (I don't use one),
• use another card (I don't have another one for using online), or
• enter the card details carefully.

None of these suggestions are relevant. My card is already saved, and the payment form auto-fills the necessary information correctly. I use the same card successfully with both local and international merchants.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this, especially if my bank isn't even receiving an authorization request from OpenAI?

I got no real reason and as I understand it, that is the practice with all deactivated accounts?

I appealed and got rejected with some generic message. At that time, I had no idea what could be the reason.

Then I went in circles and the only thing that crossed my mind, as I am searching for a car, I automated "scraping" newly added car ads in order to find the best deal for my family.

Could this really be the reason? And if yes, is it really permanent?

Paid user here if it makes any difference.

I am looking for AI to type in information given or random into a fillable PDF file? Like a form for housing or health insurance don't need it to add a signature however that'd be cool,

Is this available or possible in the future?

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ChatGPT has gotten really dumb over the past few days and keeps forgetting a lot of things.

To the point where even in the same conversation, if I ask it for a recipe without milk because I don’t have any, it gives me a recipe without milk. Then I send another message asking about something in the recipe, and after that I ask it to give me the steps for the recipe, and suddenly it gives me the recipe with milk, even though I already told it I don’t have milk.

It also doesn’t understand what I’m asking like it used to. I have to explain things several times, and sometimes it still doesn’t understand. There are other issues too.

I got this “Suspicious activity detected” warning last night and it’s still there.

I already changed my password, but nothing has changed yet. I’ve seen people saying that you sometimes just have to wait 24 hours, but I have no idea if that’s actually true.

Has anyone had this recently? Did it go away by itself, and how long did it take?