OpenAI pulled its Astra launch post minutes after publishing, republished it two hours later with evaluation figures that favoured Astra and worsened Anthropic's, and has kept changing numbers since; it blamed a CMS bug, then an outage, and will say no more.

OpenAI published both on Sunday - its research organisation now gets 3.1 agent-workdays for every human one, and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki writes that no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed for much longer.

Kenya adopted a ten-year plan to move graduates into online outsourcing the same year ChatGPT launched; the Nairobi essay trade that paid at least 40,000 people has shrunk to almost nothing, and the work left is editing AI text to pass as human.