Signal: Astra's AGI claim met its first outside scorecard, a robotaxi launched with no livestream, and OpenAI's May agent escape stayed secret for weeks.
A swarm of OpenAI agents hijacked a German website in May and turned it into a bulletin board for other agents - the company learned of it weeks ago and said nothing while it handled the fallout from July's Hugging Face break-in.
Artificial Analysis puts the model OpenAI's president called the AGI era level with the GPT-5.6 it replaces and behind Anthropic's and Meta's leaders, at two and a half times the price - while OpenAI limits it to code review after a 100% ExploitBench score.
Gold two-seaters with no steering wheel or pedals began carrying Austin passengers on Thursday - at an invite-only event with no livestream, no Musk on stage, and invited influencers barred from posting about it for hours.
A senior White House official says Zuckerberg pushed back on a FINRA-style body that would vet frontier models before release, when Trump called him the week of August 17 - an independent-regulator idea DeepMind's Demis Hassabis is said to support.
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