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OpenAI’s Astra model introduces a technique called recurrent depth, and the reaction from safety researchers is immediate and uneasy. The method allows the model to loop through its own computations internally, rather than committing to a single forward pass of reasoning. In plain terms, the model can think in circles before it speaks, and that changes the calculus of oversight.

MapQuest has reclaimed relevance in a way no one in the mapping industry saw coming. The app that defined early internet navigation has climbed to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store, not because of a technical breakthrough or a clever feature update, but because it refused to rename Lake Michigan. The decision to buck a politically charged directive has turned a legacy product into a cultural statement, and the download numbers confirm it: more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads arrived in a six-day window.