29 September 2026

GPT-6 Astra drove a real Toyota Corolla through a cone course, Claude and Grok dropped out after a few meters

Three computer scientists from the San Francisco area, working as DrivingBench, connected GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5.1 and Grok 4.6 to a rented Toyota Corolla and handed them the steering wheel, gas and brake, 404 Media reports. Only GPT-6 Astra completed the cone course in a parking lot; the other models drove a few meters. To get the models to agree to drive at all, the team had to call the real parking lot a "sandbox."

404 Media ↗ DrivingBench ↗

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Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon - initially only for trusted cybersecurity specialists

Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, a new model that according to the company has, among other things, the top score on the DeepSWE v1.1 coding benchmark (77.9 percent, compared with 74.2 percent for Claude Opus 5.5 and 74.1 percent for GPT-6 Astra) and can generate responses up to a million tokens long. For now, it is available only to trusted cybersecurity specialists in the Fairwind program, and without the safeguards that block hacking tasks. The company will open wider access, first in the paid API and for Google AI Ultra subscribers, only after strengthening the safeguards. The launch price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

Google ↗ The Verge ↗ 9to5Google ↗

ElevenLabs releases Eleven v4 speech model - more than 90 languages and voice cloning from 10 seconds of audio

ElevenLabs released Eleven v4, a new text-to-speech model, along with a faster v4 Turbo variant for voice agents, whose time to first audio is about 150 milliseconds (median), according to the company. Both models support more than 90 languages, up from 70 in the previous version, and 10 seconds of audio is enough to clone a voice. The models are already available in ElevenLabs services and via the API.

ElevenLabs ↗ TechCrunch ↗

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Pro for $500 a month and resumes sales of the $200 plan

OpenAI added a $500-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan with the highest usage limits and access to Ultrafast mode, which speeds up GPT-6 Astra responses in ChatGPT Work and Codex, The Verge reports. At the same time, the company resumed sales of its $200 plan, which it had paused when demand for GPT-6 Astra overloaded its systems, and changed its usage limits. This confirms the September 24 leak reported by TestingCatalog.

The Verge ↗ The Verge ↗

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