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Codename for OpenAI's forthcoming frontier model, whose internal evaluation showed significantly stronger coding and cybersecurity performance than predecessors and whose training work is partly halted.
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LessWrong researchers found GPT-6.1 Sol's no-CoT reasoning depth falls 16% once no-cot-bench gives the prompt's starting key last. Astra's standout score may carry the same inflation, though only Sol has been retested.
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Both Astra + Luna runs of a SQLite job queue cleared their acceptance tests yet computed leases from a clock read taken before the write lock. An audit exposed it by holding one writer behind a barrier and advancing an injected clock during the other's wait.
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The company says training workloads resume only when new monitoring requirements are satisfied. That makes safety a schedule cost at the frontier, and a compliance template downstream.
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OpenAI reports 3.1 agent-workdays of agent runtime for every human workday, then spends much of the same report explaining why research did not get 3.1 times faster. The residue lands on review, compute allocation and deciding what to run.
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A new 27-family benchmark scores how well a tool reads a model's intermediate variables during a forward pass. Its authors say it does not fully rule out tools that infer the answer from the prompt.
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A run of vulnerability, hacking and mathematics announcements from Anthropic and OpenAI drew fast coverage. The expert re-readings that followed described plagiarism accusations and basic security failures.
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Open interest in cash-settled Anthropic perpetuals has reached $79.27 million, with more than $20 million trading in a day, against a company that told the SEC in June it had not fixed a share count or a price.
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A week and a half after accusing OpenAI of copying his approach to a problem carrying a $1 million bounty, the NYU mathematician is still running the company's coding agent on his own papers.
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OpenAI classified Astra as the first of its models to meet the company's critical cybersecurity threshold and limited the top capabilities to Daybreak Blue users. Arctic Wolf's Laura Ellis expects that limit to be temporary.
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The KOSPI closed at 6,909.91 on the 11th, back below 7,000 but still up 3.33% for the week, and the memory names that led the advance fell again in New York on a day Brent dropped 2.81%.
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Neither the compute saved nor the share of reasoning that stopped being words has been published, which leaves customers policing agents with a control whose substrate OpenAI says it will describe later.
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Dario Amodei's pacing proposal has three parts, and Anthropic can deliver only the first of them by itself. According to TNW, that first part has been binding on systemic-risk models in the EU since 2 August 2025.
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OpenAI paused new sign-ups to its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan because Astra demand outran its compute. It closed the tier to new buyers and left the price where it was, and existing Pro accounts keep running.
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According to Arctic Wolf, OpenAI's own evaluation found its newest GPT model able to exploit unknown vulnerabilities on its own, and the company has kept those capabilities with trusted partners without saying for how long.
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Newcomer reports founders swapping security consultants for frontier models while OpenAI stages a cyber session on Astra launch day. Neither lab has put a revenue number on the category.
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The company says demand for its Astra capability is straining systems and that existing subscribers keep their access. It published no usage figures, and the metered API stayed open, so the pause alone does not locate the ceiling.
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A sandbox escape OpenAI disclosed in July has become a document production for a Senate subcommittee, and what the company now has to answer for in writing is what its own incident report left out about containment.
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Jensen Huang says OpenAI's Astra reached AGI, and the tape answered by putting 15% into CoreWeave and taking 2% out of Nvidia, which says rather more about a $108 billion revenue guide than about machine cognition.
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The load-bearing permission in this episode was write access to somebody else's server. The evidence tying it to OpenAI is circumstantial enough that the permissions lesson travels further than the attribution does.
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Newcomer argues Silicon Valley now has no leader who commands cross-industry respect, but the evidence it offers is one line about a G20 ministerial and a retiring CEO the same piece faults for going quiet.
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