AI

GPT-6 Astra begins a limited, staged rollout on September 3, 2026, with $10 per million input tokens and a “Critical” cybersecurity risk rating. OpenAI’s new flagship is arriving two days after Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 and one day after Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, according to the companies’ launch announcements.

A human-led, AI-assisted intrusion has pushed agentic attack talk from demos into a documented enterprise breach. In September 2026, Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 described a real enterprise breach in which, based partly on the threat actor’s statements during ransom negotiations, a human threat actor used frontier AI models and agentic frameworks to move through a network. Unit 42's reported findings are sobering: the intrusion took under 10 hours and used more than 50 MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

On 1 September, Brussels quietly opened a file whose name sounds like a dusty trade dispute but whose consequences reach into Europe's high-tech and green future. Case R869 is an interim review of anti-dumping duties on Chinese silicon metal — the refined raw material that goes into aluminium alloys, silicones and, after further processing, the photovoltaic and electronics supply chains. Until the review ends, the existing duties of 16.3 % to 16.8 % stay in force.

GPT-6 Astra is here. OpenAI’s next flagship launched on September 3, 2026 with agent-ready skills for computer use and coding. The vendor-reported numbers are strong — 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0 and a lower internal computer-use overstep rate than its predecessor. The harder question for European teams is whether the pricing and the shifting EU AI Act timetable make it a safe production choice.

A compliance officer in Munich or Milan now faces a question that barely existed three years ago: who inside our organisation can independently audit an AI system? With general-purpose AI model obligations applicable since 2 August 2025 and the EU AI Act's general application date of 2 August 2026, CertiProf has expanded its professional certification tracks to combine ISO/IEC 42001 auditing with EU AI Act requirements in one curriculum.