Five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it. All stories from 4 September 2026
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, built for computer use, coding and security work
A new generation, in OpenAI's words, aimed at agents that operate computers.
Perplexity opens up how it serves search embeddings at speed
Perplexity· 4 SepPerplexity published how it serves the embeddings behind its search, using three in-house components benchmarked against vLLM. Its finding: inference engines now perform about the same on current hardware, and the speed comes from the runtime around the model.
Our read: Useful if anyone quotes you for private search over your own documents.
- If someone is building search over your documents, ask what re-indexing costs and how fast a cold query returns.
- Judge any private search demo on your own documents, not on the vendor's sample data.
Source: Perplexity. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. The picture is our own graphic. How we source and credit
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