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OpenAI grounds GPT-6.1 Astra, then ships dots: AI safety research moves center stage

On Tuesday, OpenAI scrapped its GPT-6.1 Astra model over safety concerns and then launched a new agent called dots, capping the busiest week yet for AI evaluation and safety research.

Electric bus orders pile up as truck costs and charging gaps shape the market

SWITCH Mobility's 840-bus order for Delhi, reported on 28 September, is the largest single electric bus deal in this week's dossier. It lands as new data shows electric trucks are already cheaper to run in six of nine major EU markets.

Quine, ARIA and a $97M bet: AI moves into the lab, not the fusion reactor

Microsoft Research introduced Quine on 29 September, a multimodal AI system it says was used with the Broad Institute to prioritise compounds for tumour-state shifts, with several top-ranked candidates validated in wet-lab assays. The dossier contains no fusion energy research result.

Cox Automotive study finds robotaxi rides are winning over AV skeptics

Infection study puts 2.3 million cancers on pathogens, with H. pylori and HPV leading

AWS holds the cheaper H100, but utilisation decides your inference bill

Nobody has a working sports data analytics playbook yet

Electric bus orders surge as truck cost data and policy deadlines reshape fleets

Nvidia's agent safety platform launches as insurers weigh AI that can act on its own

OpenAI launches dots agent a day after grounding Astra over safety failures

China Extends Travel Curbs to Families of Top AI Staff

BYD Tests Coach-Door Flagship as Solid-State Race Tightens

Nvidia opens its agent safety stack as China's open-model hubs build a parallel layer

Nvidia and AMD chiefs join Tsinghua board as auto chip supply tightens

Search is turning into a conversation, and publishers' traffic answers are changing

Infection study and respiration research dominate a week of health science

OpenAI Pulls GPT-6.1 Astra, Then Ships 'Dots' Agent Powered by GPT-6

Anthropic's $42B Loss and Cloud Commitments Meet a Memory Shortage Reaching Apple

Space-Based Computing and Autonomous AI Are Rewriting Mission Science

Trump signs 'morally binding' AI accord as Brussels enforces its own rulebook