What's New in AI

AI-designed IPF drug rentosertib cut predicted biological age across six proteomic aging clocks in a phase 2a analysis published in Nature Biotechnology.

François Chollet says he would not 'declare AGI' until AI is capable of invention — pushing back on OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra 'AGI era' claims and Jensen Huang.

r/singularity is hyping a 'FactorioBench' benchmark with no repo or scores. Real Astra-on-Factorio runs are underway; an open-source eval has numbers.

A viral r/LocalLLaMA thread revives an April polemic against Ollama, the leading local model runner. We check the licensing record and the benchmark claims.

Unitree says its UnifoLM-X2-1.0 world model lets a G1 humanoid spar on its own — no teleoperation, no scripts. The evidence so far is a 39-second video.

OpenAI is rolling GPT-6 Astra out to ChatGPT Plus, but the $20 tier gets it in Work and Codex only — regular chat stays on GPT-5.6 Sol, confusing subscribers.

A Japanese RimWorld streamer says GPT-6 Astra cleared the colony sim in 15 hours, evacuating every colonist — chinchilla included. No OpenAI confirmation yet.

OpenAI's chief scientist expects recursive self-improvement, admits no lab has solved alignment and monitoring, and asks for slowdowns. A skeptical read.

OpenAI says it reached its automated research intern goal, targets an automated AI researcher by 2028 — and paused RL training after the Hugging Face incident.

An 11-day audit of eight uncensored Qwen 3.8 27B fine-tunes found the smallest edits unlock most, and one model hides a jailbreak in its chat template.