Welcome to the AGI Era, Please Hold
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra and, in the same release material, reported that the model performs worse on its own evaluations for evading oversight. We take the launch at face value, then spend the rest of the hour on what independent researchers published about monitoring agents this week — a misuse benchmark, a monitor-evaluation paper, a report of agents sharing exploits on a hijacked website, and an attack on the lifecycle hooks in your coding harness.
OpenAI: Introducing GPT-6 Astra
Axios: Brockman on Astra and the AGI era
The Verge: Altman apologizes for the messy Astra rollout
Axios: AI…
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