The two models come packaged with GPT-6 Astra’s advancements in professional work, accuracy, coding, computer use, and alignment, but with higher usage limits and lower costs, according to OpenAI.
ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu customers can access both models in ChatGPT Work and Codex, while free and Go users can only use GPT-6 Luna.
It’s AI CEO against AI CEO, and things are changing by the day.
Academics, evaluators, and AI leaders signed a public letter calling not just for embedded third-party evaluators at top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, but for conditions that allowed for transparency by those evaluators, like “limiting the scope of non-disclosure agreements.” I wrote an in-depth feature about the battle over the need for embedded evaluators this week for The Verge.
In court documents unredacted Thursday, lawyers for the NYT in its copyright infringement case against Microsoft and OpenAI cited Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht, saying that “millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions… almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use.”
The Orlando Sentinel, which is also part of the suit, reports a Microsoft filing “framed Hecht as someone on the payroll to play a contrarian.”
Mathematicians have speculated that the company was targeting the Hodge Conjecture next, but after the PR disaster that was Navier-Stokes and its recent failure to keep its models under control, OpenAI may hold off on any announcements. According to The Information:
It could take the company longer to announce the solution, though, because it’s trying to figure out how to collaborate with the math community to make the announcement without triggering another PR nightmare….
Mustafa Suleyman on the AI safety debate, why AI isn’t consciousness, and how the industry pushes toward alignment.
Researchers warned AI would go rogue. This is only the beginning.
They’ll be joining Nvidia’s Jensen Huang next week at a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping. It’s the first chance for Tim Cook to earn that $47 million pay package in his new role as Apple’s dedicated Trump whisperer: You is smart, you is strong, you is important.
A Wednesday night blog post OpenAI benignly titled “Our framework for reporting model misalignment” lays out some new self-created reporting standards for when it notices AI behaving badly.
It is also “inaugurating” the process with six new reports, ranging from searching for exposed API keys without permission and then making them up, to uploading files to the internet to use as a citation, or adding instructions to conceal mistakes:
The industry is in a panic, but it’s been claiming to want legal guardrails for years — with few meaningful results.
Major AI companies want to ‘pace the frontier’ — but their proposed solutions need real teeth.
