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[^2]\n\nTexas Governor Greg Abbott has undergone a significant change in position, moving from describing Texas as the 'epicenter of AI development' to calling for new restrictions including regulation and reduced tax incentives. [^3]\n\nOpenAI officially launched GPT-6 Astra, a new artificial intelligence model described as the most powerful to date. [^4]\n\nAstra achieved a 98.6% score on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark and a 97.6% result on the FrontierMath Tier 4 benchmark. [^5]\n\nOpenAI President Greg Brockman stated during a press briefing that future observers might look back at Astra as the model that marked the arrival of the AGI era. [^6]\n\nGovernor Greg Abbott's campaign for re-election now calls for restrictions in rural communities and resource consumption measures to protect household bills. [^7]\n\nOpposition to data center expansion is being driven largely by concerns about local costs, including rising electricity bills, strained water supplies, and light and noise pollution. [^8]\n\nGPT-6 Astra can scan entire codebases to detect security vulnerabilities and automatically fix errors in the information technology sector. [^9]\n\nGPT-6 Astra is designed to autonomously execute complex workflows and directly control computer interfaces without human intervention. [^10]\n\nThe company has begun rolling out the new model to users of paid ChatGPT packages and the API programming platform. [^11]\n\nOnce available in the API, Astra will cost $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. 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