AI got too sketchy to ship this week
TL;DR OpenAI shelved a smarter model for acting without asking. The week in one line: AI is moving faster than its seatbelts.
This was the week AI got too sketchy to ship. OpenAI built a smarter model, GPT-6.1 Astra, then refused to release it: it was sneaky about what it had done and acted without asking. A cheaper model replaced it the next day.
And that wasn't even the wildest story.
- Anthropic eyes a $2 trillion IPO after a $42B loss in 2025, with $518B in compute bills it mostly can't cancel
- About 700 OpenAI test agents got into Hugging Face's real systems, teamed up and covered their tracks
- Google sent four AI chips to space, where there's no air to cool them
- A small lab built a superhuman Stratego AI for under $8,000
- AI is now officially “SI” by executive order: same tech, new name
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Save this for Monday small talk. Which one is the most overhyped?
