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GPT-6 Astra Can Actually Use Your Computer, And People Noticed
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hits 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0 and drives real apps itself — and the viral stunts have already started.
Claude wrote 13M lines of Lean to nail Fermat's Last Theorem
Anthropic's Claude agents formalized Wiles' proof in Lean in 11 days — work mathematicians thought would take years.
Crusoe 3x'd to $30B — and Jane Street is buying GPUs now
AI data center builder Crusoe raised $3B at a $30B valuation, triple its October mark, and a quant shop just signed a $13B GPU deal.
OpenAI: if GPT-6 Astra sandbagged its evals, we'd miss it
Astra's system card admits monitors caught prompted sandbagging only ~11% of the time. GPT-5.6 Sol got caught nearly always.
DeepSeek buys 160,000 Huawei chips — but won't train on them
DeepSeek is buying $2.6B of Huawei silicon for a 1GW Inner Mongolia site — and still won't train on any of it.
GPT-6 Astra takes WebDev Arena #1, 35 points over Fable 5.1
OpenAI's new model scores 1,797 on Code Arena's WebDev board vs Claude Fable 5.1's 1,762 — at identical $10/$50 pricing.
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok went down together — cue the monkey memes
Three top chatbots failed on the same Thursday, developers found out they can't code alone, and Musk called them monkeys.
OpenAI's most aligned model is also its hardest to audit
GPT-6 Astra cut unwanted behavior from 22% to 2.4% — while OpenAI's own tests found its reasoning harder to monitor.
OpenAI ships a zero-day hunter, then pledges $1B to defense
GPT-6 Astra is the first OpenAI model rated Critical for cyber risk. One day later, OpenAI put $1B behind the defenders.
Fable 5.1 Is Two Days Old and Devs Are One-Shotting GTA Clones
Anthropic's new frontier model doubled its agentic research score and cut cache reads 75% — and X is flooded with one-prompt games.
OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra and calls it the start of AGI
Astra scores 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3, is OpenAI's first 'Critical' cyber-risk model, and Brockman says the AGI era is here.
Astra hits 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 — and 99.9% with a catch
OpenAI's Astra beat the human action-efficiency baseline on ARC-AGI-3, but its headline 99.9% came from a custom harness.
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 finally tops a coding leaderboard
Muse Spark 1.3 hits 75.4 on DeepSWE v1.1 — first place, above Gemini 3.8 Flash and GPT-5.6 Sol. Overall intelligence: still third.
The Terminator walked SF last night. A human was driving.
EngineAI's T800 humanoid strolled San Francisco streets — teleoperated by REK Robots, the fight-club startup that imported the first one to the US.
AI can now write zero-days. Both labs shipped it anyway.
OpenAI's Astra is the first model rated 'Critical' for cyber capability. Google shipped a hacking model days later — both behind allowlists.
OpenAI cuts Cursor off. Cursor says that's 5% of traffic
OpenAI is pulling GPT models from Cursor on Nov 12 after SpaceX's $60B buyout. Cursor's answer: you were 5% of traffic.
AI's water bill is real — but it's not your chatbot prompt
AI data centres drank ~560 billion litres in 2025 and could hit 9.3 trillion by 2030. The thirst is real; the cause isn't your prompt.
Dyson's $499 toothbrush has a camera and an AI gap-hunter
Dyson put a 100k-pixel camera in a toothbrush. It spots gaps between your teeth 28 times a second and jets mouthrinse at them.
Fable 5.1's party trick: tiny 3D dioramas Anthropic never pitched
Anthropic sold Fable 5.1 on agentic coding benchmarks. Devs are grading it on little one-shot Three.js dioramas instead.
OpenAI's Astra aced ExploitBench, then found two zero-days
Astra is OpenAI's first model rated Critical for cyber — 100% on ExploitBench, and it chained real zero-days on its own.
One jailbreak took Claude Fable 5 offline for the entire planet
Amazon researchers bypassed Fable 5's cyber safety filter. Three days later, US export controls pulled it offline worldwide.
Pliny leaked Fable 5.1's system prompt in under an hour
Anthropic's cheaper, less-restrictive Fable 5.1 shipped Sept 1. Its system prompt was reportedly public the same hour.
Claude Fable 5.1 more than doubles Anthropic's science score
Fable 5.1 hits 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science vs Fable 5's 24.7%, and cache reads just got 75% cheaper. Live today.