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Tech's quiet board hides the week's most consequential release

Tech's own climate stayed the lowest of the eight domains for another day, even as OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra under a cyber-risk gate tight enough to hold back general access, and Uber's layoffs landed in the same days.

Layers disagree, and the sweep remains the far more useful read of tech two days running.

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