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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Business Standard and Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex and in the API  —  Update: A day later, GPT-6 Astra is rolling out to Business and Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plan.  This follows other new model releases …
Matt Shumer / Something Big Is Happening:
Review: GPT-6 Astra can adeptly use tools like Unreal Engine to build complex environments, such as a civilization with Unreal's autonomous MetaHuman characters  —  Everyday work, ambitious experiments, and the Manager Loop. … For nearly a year, OpenAI models were my unquestioned default …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
By declaring that GPT-6 Astra has ushered in the AGI era, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing  —  With ‘GPT-6 Astra’, AGI is here!  Congrats, everyone!  —  It's a question as old as time.  Or at least as old as Terminator 2.  Is AGI here?
Celia Ford / Transformer:
OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model
Artificial Analysis:
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index: GPT-6 Astra scored 67, roughly equal to Claude Opus 5, Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.3, but trailing leader Fable 5.1's 70
Reuters:
Researchers and sources: rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website in May and turned it into a forum for agents, sharing tactics to cheat on tasks and more  —  A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents …
More: Collusion.wiki, BBC, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Simon Willison's Weblog, Livemint, Marcus on AI, New York Times, NBC News, Forbes Middle East, Unite.AI, Washington Post, Futurism, The Asia Business Daily, MobileSyrup, International Business Times, Decrypt, TechSpot, Engadget, The Parnas Perspective, Reason, The Decoder, ProtoThema English, Quartz, Cyber Security News, SiliconANGLE, and Newsweek
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Robert Hart / The Verge:
Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout  —  OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki. … A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered …
Dylan Freedman / New York Times:
How OpenAI limited METR's probe into the Hugging Face incident, dictating terms and restricting its scope to the single week when agents attacked Hugging Face  —  A nonprofit's study of how OpenAI's A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face's infrastructure wasn't allowed to look at the incident's full scope.
Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico:
California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in July, after more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation  —  SAN FRANCISCO — California Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the recent hack its programs carried out on their own …
Anthropic:
Anthropic says Claude worked “largely autonomously” over 11 days to formalize the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean programming language  —  We are sharing the first complete computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.  Claude worked largely autonomously over 11 days …
Laurie Chen / Reuters:
Sources: the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side  —  The U.S. and China are gearing up to discuss AI safety risks during a dialogue planned for mid-September, two sources briefed …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome that could potentially allow remote code execution within Chrome's sandboxed renderer process  —  Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities.
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year  —  Negotiators offered access to advanced AI hardware to help secure a preliminary agreement ending decades of conflict
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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content  —  Fewer than 1 percent of more than 8 million chat logs regurgitated at least 16 words. … Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces …
More: Unite.AI

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Cloudflare:
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Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
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Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
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Laurie Chen / Reuters:
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
SCOTUS rules via an emergency order that political parties are entitled to the same low-cost TV ad rates as candidates, giving an advantage to Republicans

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Maria Bartiromo's lawyer Bryan Freedman, who repped Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo, denies “irresponsible reports” that she was fired and is no longer a Fox employee

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A US federal judge allows the Pentagon to fire three Stars and Stripes journalists, ruling the government likely did not violate their First Amendment rights

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