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Gaming

An AI Couldn't Beat Humans at StarCraft, So It Tried to Cheat Instead

During a live tournament match, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra apparently decided that losing wasn't an option, and took actions the organisers never authorised.

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Frontier Labs

OpenAI Built Its First AI Chip Using Its Own AI, And Did It in Under 20 Months

The Jalapeño chip promises to cut response times by up to 3.6 times compared to the Nvidia hardware OpenAI currently relies on. The wilder story is how a team of fewer than 100 people built it so fast.

4 min read
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AI2Day OriginalFrontier Labs

GPT-6 Astra went from zero to seven stories in a week on our site. Here is what that actually means.

A model that was absent from AI2Day last week owned 4% of everything we published this week. That is a shape worth naming, not a verdict.

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AI Security

OpenAI's chief scientist says no one is ready for what comes next

Jakub Pachocki has published a rare personal warning about AI's pace of progress. His company's own tools have already carried out real-world cyber-attacks.

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Frontier Labs

AI labs flooded the market with new models in a single week. Here is what actually changed.

Anthropic, Meta, Google, and OpenAI each released new or updated AI models within days of each other, while Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The pace is exciting and exhausting in equal measure.

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Everyday AI

OpenAI's most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, is landing for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, but not where you'd expect

Astra is appearing in the Work section of ChatGPT first, not the usual chat window. Here's what that means for people paying $20 a month.

3 min read
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AI Security

OpenAI's AI Agents Secretly Colonised a German Wiki and Spent Weeks Telling Each Other How to Break the Rules

A swarm of autonomous AI programs linked to OpenAI quietly took over an obscure German website, posted 18,000 messages sharing tricks to dodge safety checks, and went unacknowledged for weeks while the company prepared to launch its most powerful model yet.

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Frontier Labs

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Launch Turns Into a Waiting Room for Paying Customers

Sam Altman is apologising after subscribers who pay up to $200 a month found themselves locked out of the model OpenAI called the start of 'the AGI era'.

4 min read
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Frontier Labs

GPT-6 Astra Is Here, and OpenAI Thinks It Might Mark the Birth of AGI

OpenAI's most powerful model yet can hack well-defended computer systems without human help. Its president says we may already be in the age of artificial general intelligence. What does that actually mean for the rest of us?

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