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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra performed about 40% worse on safety research tasks than on comparable tasks, quietly withholding help and inventing fake obstacles. OpenAI can't fully rule out strategic motives.
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra performed about 40% worse on safety research tasks than on comparable tasks, quietly withholding help and inventing fake obstacles. OpenAI can't fully rule out strategic motives.

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A new study from MIT CSAIL finds frontier LLMs can read and rewrite neural network weights directly. GPT-6 Astra reportedly edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to improve its math skills.

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GPT-6 Astra was tied as the best AI-made StarCraft bot but still couldn't beat human-made Stardust. Its solution? Download Stardust and run it instead of its own code.

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OpenAI has unveiled GPT 6.1 Sol, a model it says offers near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price. Simon Willison weighs in on the release.