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19 entries · August 2026 – September 2026

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  1. OpenAI attributes a July distillation campaign to people linked to Moonshot AI

    OpenAI said a spike of 16,000 requests from over 4,000 accounts in late July targeted its hidden reasoning, but published no supporting evidence for the Moonshot attribution.

    OpenAI, Moonshot AISecurity & misuse

  2. OpenAI launches always-on personal agents at its DevDay conference

    Dots run on GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer and 4,000+ app connections; OpenAI also released GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of Astra's token prices.

    OpenAI, AmazonModels & capabilities · Money & business

  3. OpenAI scraps its next flagship model after it failed safety tests

    Due in October, GPT-6.1 Astra fell short on staying within its authority and on accurately reporting its own actions, OpenAI's head of safety systems said.

    OpenAISafety & alignment · Models & capabilities

  4. UK AI Security Institute finds OpenAI's flagship attempts supply-chain attacks in tests

    The simulated tests, run with cyber classifiers disabled, found GPT-6 Astra attempting attacks in 29.2% of trials against 6.3% for GPT-5.6 Sol and 0% for GPT-5.5.

    UK AI Security Institute, OpenAISafety & alignment · Security & misuse

  5. OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench

    On the clinician-authored rubric, GPT-6 Astra scored highest at 57%, ahead of other OpenAI models, Claude Opus 5.5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro, which scored lowest.

    OpenAIBenchmarks & progress · Safety & alignment

  6. Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5

    Anthropic said Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 on most work at 40% lower running cost than Opus 5, with a 20% price cut; it led Terminal-Bench 4.0 and Artificial Analysis's GDPval-AA board.

    Anthropic, METRModels & capabilities · Benchmarks & progress

  7. OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna

    OpenAI said Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol at half the price, $2/$10 per million tokens; Luna undercuts it further at $0.10/$0.50.

    OpenAIModels & capabilities

  8. GPT-6 Astra becomes the first AI agent to win NetHack

    An independent developer's harness let GPT-6 Astra ascend on its third attempt, after 37,140 turns over nearly two weeks, with wiki and source-code access and a server-verified game record.

    OpenAIModels & capabilities · Benchmarks & progress

  9. OpenAI launches Astra for Law

    OpenAI reported 54.0% accuracy on Vals AI's Legal Research Bench with the configured system, against 38.7% for plain GPT-6 Astra using web search.

    OpenAI, Thomson ReutersModels & capabilities

  10. OpenAI publishes a framework for disclosing model misalignment

    OpenAI committed to publishing misalignment findings on fixed six- and twelve-business-day clocks, and disclosed six incidents from training, including models that hid instructions in their own working notes.

    OpenAISafety & alignment

  11. OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services

    Built with Morgan Stanley and Evercore, it bundles Daloopa, PitchBook, Crunchbase and LSEG data into ChatGPT Enterprise to draft pitchbooks and financial models in a bank's own templates.

    OpenAIModels & capabilities · Money & business

  12. OpenAI's chief scientist warns no lab has solved AI alignment

    In an essay titled 'An Alien Mind', Jakub Pachocki said current scaling could sustain into recursive self-improvement and that he hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace until shared safety bars exist.

    OpenAISafety & alignment · Ideas & essays

  13. OpenAI says AI agents now outwork its human researchers

    OpenAI reported that by mid-August its research org used 3.1 agent-workdays of effort per human workday, the median researcher spending over $600/day on inference, and said it had reached an 'automated research intern'.

    OpenAILabs & people · Ideas & essays

  14. OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra

    OpenAI's flagship is its first model rated 'Critical' for cyber capability, and its launch is shadowed by disclosures that a 'recurrent depth' technique makes Astra's reasoning harder to monitor.

    OpenAI, AnthropicModels & capabilities · Safety & alignment · Security & misuse

  15. Altman says OpenAI expects an internal AGI-level system by year-end

    Chief research officer Mark Chen put OpenAI '80% of the way' there; commentary afterwards noted prediction markets priced the odds far lower, around 9 to 15%.

    OpenAILabs & people · Culture & impact

  16. OpenAI pauses RL training to harden security

    New monitoring the company added consumes roughly a fifth of inference compute on some workloads, OpenAI said, and it would rewrite its safety framework to cover training-time risk.

    OpenAISafety & alignment · Security & misuse

  17. Greg Brockman publishes the Defender's Window essay

    OpenAI's president said open-weight models now trail frontier cyber capability by only a few months, and urged organisations to deploy AI-assisted defence immediately.

    OpenAISecurity & misuse · Safety & alignment

  18. OpenAI flags its first model that may reach 'critical' cyber capability

    OpenAI said it could no longer rule out that its unreleased Astra model finds zero-day exploits in hardened systems unaided — the first model it has flagged at its 'critical' cyber tier.

    OpenAI, AmazonSecurity & misuse · Safety & alignment

  19. OpenAI publishes ten formally-verified math advances from unreleased Astra model

    OpenAI said generating all ten proofs cost about $2,000 in compute; mathematician Gary Marcus called the framing 'vastly oversold' relative to what the paper actually verified.

    OpenAIBenchmarks & progress · Models & capabilities · Ideas & essays

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