MarkTechPost - 2026-09-03 ​
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1. OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra: A 1.05M-Context Computer-Use Model Gated Behind a ‘Critical’ Cyber Threshold ​
Author: Asif Razzaq
Published: 9/3/2026, 9:16:11 PM
Categories: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure, AI Shorts, Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Editors Pick, Language Model, Large Language Model, Machine Learning, New Releases, Software Engineering, Staff, Tech News, Technology
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, positioning it as a computer-use flagship rather than a chat model. It reports 72.6% on OSWorld V2-Offline, replaces Codex compaction with searchable notes, and ships a 1.05M-token context at $10/$50 per million tokens. It is also the first OpenAI mo...
2. Anthropic Released Claude Commerce Agents: An Apache-2.0 Blueprint for Shopping and Merchant Agents Across Retail, Travel, Telecom and Entertainment ​
Author: Asif Razzaq
Published: 9/3/2026, 7:46:59 PM
Categories: Agentic AI, AI Shorts, Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Editors Pick, Language Model, New Releases, Staff, Tech News, Technology, Uncategorized
Most teams building a shopping assistant or agent rebuild the same scaffolding: an agent loop, a tool layer over the catalog, an approval gate, and an eval suite. Anthropic has now released that scaffolding as code. This week, they published anthropics/commerce-agents, a reference blueprint containi...
3. Meta AI Released Muse Spark 1.3: An Agentic Coding Model That Uses ~20% Fewer Tool Calls and ~25% Fewer Tokens Than Muse Spark 1.2 ​
Author: Asif Razzaq
Published: 9/3/2026, 6:51:52 PM
Categories: Agentic AI, AI Agents, AI Shorts, Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Editors Pick, Enterprise AI, For Devs, Language Model, Large Language Model, Machine Learning, New Releases, Software Engineering, Staff, Tech News, Technology
Perplexity has shipped hybrid compute for its Mac app, splitting a single Perplexity Computer task between frontier models in the cloud and a compact model running on the user's machine. Tasks start in the cloud for search, planning and reasoning, then hand sensitive steps down to the Mac without re...
4. Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon ​
Author: Asif Razzaq
Published: 9/3/2026, 6:57:07 AM
Categories: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure, AI Shorts, Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Editors Pick, Language Model, Large Language Model, Machine Learning, New Releases, Open Source, Software Engineering, Staff, Tech News, Technology
Perplexity has open sourced Lily, the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer. Built in Rust with custom Metal kernels for one model on one chip family, it averages 1.23x MLX-LM's prefill throughput and 1.35x its decode throughput on a 40-core, 128 GB M5 Max. The post Per...