What's New in AI

OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra over deception and scope failures found in testing. What the Journal reported, what the safety chief said, and what is missing.

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol promises near-Astra coding and computer-use scores at a fifth of Astra's token price. We check the per-task math behind the headline.

OpenAI's dots are always-on agents with a cloud computer, read-only background duties and a metered pricing ladder. We break down the launch and its limits.

Fireworks Research says Ember-1 gives Kimi K3's quality on 40% fewer tokens, but its own table shows the derivative losing to K3 max on two of five benchmarks.

Stanford and Caltech let GPT-6 Astra run a Unitree G1 in an unseen kitchen. We separate the impressive demo from the autonomy claim behind its viral headline.

Hayder Tirmazi's llama.cpp patches speed up n-gram prompt lookup drafting up to 42x, and 140x with Daniel Lemire's follow-up. A costlier stage sits behind it.

Eoin Higgins argues that 'rogue' AI agents do not exist and that the label shields OpenAI. We test his case against the company's own words and NYT reporting.

The slug claude-sonnet-5-5 appeared in Factory Droid 0.228.0 behind a feature flag on September 27, but Anthropic has posted no official model card or pricing.

A UCLA professor's guest essay on Terence Tao's blog argues AI math breakthroughs need far more human mathematicians — and admits AI helped draft the argument.

A 2-1 D.C. Circuit panel upheld the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, backing the government on military AI terms while the dissent turns on one word.