The Business AI Briefing

Sep 22 update expands the GPT-6 family beyond Astra. Vendor claims SOTA computer use vs GPT-5.6 Sol; Astra API $10/$50 per 1M — pick the tier by job cost, not launch slides.

First Claude Opus release since Dario Amodei backed pacing the frontier. Faster, less jargon; Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 still weeks out. Bio/cyber safeguards match Fable/Mythos — company claims, not independent bake-offs.

216 GB memory and FP8/FP4 claimed; no independent benchmarks yet. Capex already hits free cash flow — foundry and power still the gate.

Airline ops numbers: project intake 5 days → ~1 day; engineering lookups under 10 seconds. Low-hype workflow redesign, not a chatbot press release.

Modeled on Space Force, announced Saturday with no structure yet; the 25% GDP line is unsourced while he vows not to slow the industry.