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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 …
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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 …
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  —  OpenAI is hailing its new model as “the world's most intelligent and aligned”, but the details reveal an awareness of being evaluated …
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
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, a “distraction-free Windows experience” for developers to run 30B+ parameter models locally on devices with 64GB+ of memory  —  The first Project Zenith devices ship with AMD's Ryzen AI Halo chips. … Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect from Apple's September 9 “Surprise and Shine” event: a foldable iPhone, an iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, Apple Watches with ceramic cases, and more  —  From the foldable iPhone to a touch-screen MacBook, here's what to expect on Sept. 9 and beyond.
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: foldable iPhone production is limited to only a “few hundred” units a day in late August, due to Apple's strict quality standards as it ramps up output
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
The NHTSA opens a probe into Tesla's decision to launch its new Cybercab on public roads in Austin with no steering wheel or pedals  —  The United States' top automotive safety regulator has opened an investigation into Tesla decision to launch its new Cybercab on public roads with no steering wheel or pedals.
Reuters:
Tesla says Cybercab rides are available in limited areas of Austin; Cybercab is a two-seater with no steering wheel or pedals, and 45 are registered in Texas
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 …
Raphael Satter / Reuters:
Letters: US military branches disabled ad trackers on government-issued devices amid reports of location data being used to target US forces in the Middle East  —  U.S. military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released …
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
A profile of John Ternus, the first product engineer to lead Apple; sources: Cook considered how to execute the perfect succession since his early days as CEO  —  Tim Cook's successor is a product engineer who has spent 25 years at the company and belongs to the generation mentored by Steve Jobs
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