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2026-09-04
Articles published on 2026-09-04.
Wikimedia Foundation Workers Vote to Form a Union with the Communications Workers of America
U.S.-based workers at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, voted overwhelmingly to unionize under the Communications Workers of America. After management declined a voluntary-recognition request, the National Labor Relations Board oversaw an election in which 81 percent of eligible voters cast ballots and 92 percent of those voted to join CWA Local 9415. The organizing campaign is part of a global effort, and a parallel recognition demand has been filed in the United Kingdom.
GPT-6 Astra Nails a Simple Robot Task but Stalls on Precision Insertion
In a Robocurve benchmark on bimanual robot arms, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra placed a block into a bowl in 19 of 20 trials — far outpacing Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and 5.1 — but managed only 2 of 20 on a precision puzzle insertion where all three models stalled at the same final step.