Fast Hours

What Can OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 Actually Do?

September 13, 2026·1h 7m
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So, what can OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 actually do?Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn put OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 models through a golf course build, a vintage typewriter animation, and a round of image edits. Rory’s golf course experiment burns 70% of his weekly allowance. Drew spends three hours getting a typewriter to type. Their gift for turning a quick test into a side project remains undefeated. The pro-AI half of the show. The other half: a viral AI resignation that looks planned to the minute, Anthropic's 154-page report on how people misused Claude, and GPT Image 2.5 quietly fixing the reasons everyone kept running back to Nano Banana.This episode covers OpenAI Astra with computer use, two ChatGPT chats collaborating inside one project, Three.js and Blender renders, a fantasy football analytics hub, and Astra running Midjourney with mood boards and style references. GPT Image 2.5 multi-edit comments, sketch input, custom aspect ratios, and template creator. Anthropic's threat report, Moonshot and Kimi distillation, and the viral AI researcher resignation. ---⏱️ Fast Hour00:00 What’s on Fast Hours this week?06:35 Why do traumatic moments burn into memory07:42 What was different before social media13:48 This week: Astra, GPT Image 2.5, a viral resignation15:04 Did an AI researcher really resign over ASI18:40 How to tell what is true in AI news20:42 Why quitting your AI job can't stop superintelligence27:01 What do the cited reports allege about Kimi28:33 What AI misuse examples do the hosts discuss?34:07 How did Astra build a golf course prototype? 35:35 How did research improve Astra’s first attempt? 36:33 What happened when two AI chats collaborated?39:29 Why did Rory stop the drainage research?40:02 How did Drew approach his Blender experiment?40:52 How did Astra recreate Drew’s typewriter? 43:49 How long does AI-assisted 3D work take?44:43 How did Drew build a ChatGPT dashboard? 48:32 What happened when Astra explored Midjourney? 53:56 How did mood boards shape Astra’s prompts?58:49 What improved in GPT Image 2.5?01:00:24 How do GPT Image 2.5 edit comments work?01:01:47 How do you request multiple image variations? 01:03:30 How well did GPT Image 2.5 resize ads? 01:07:11 How reusable templates in GPT Image 2.5 can help brands 01:08:37 What’s coming next for Fast Hours?

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