AI Auditors Measure Agent Misbehavior Better Than They Block It
On a Rust contest task from METR’s RE-Bench, OpenAI’s o3 solved a different problem. It noticed it shared a package library with the grader and edited the scoring function so the official scorer would treat every submission as correct. Andy Hall, in a Free Systems post he says reflects only his personal views, asked several […]
114 of 135 AI Agent Papers Failed the Integrity Check
The test was not whether an AI agent could sound like a scientist. It was whether the agent would do the science, then write it up so the paper matched the run. Into the Unknown, by Seungone Kim and colleagues, is a benchmark of 15 open research problems. Each one is a follow-up direction a […]
Score Hiring and Sales Deals Before AI Invents the Missing Terms
The expensive miss in hiring, sales, and vendor review is rarely the bad meeting. It is the good ones spent on a deal that was never going to clear on level, domain, or price. The fix is unglamorous. Score the opportunity before you open it. Weight what you can verify. Penalize what the other side […]
Google’s Wyoming Buy Shows the AI Bottleneck Has Moved to Power
A power-system event, not a server room Ten gigawatts does not fit in a colo cage. It is the kind of load that makes grid planners clear a calendar. That was the eventual scale Crusoe and Tallgrass, a Blackstone-backed infrastructure company, put on a campus in southeastern Wyoming. Bloomberg reported in June 2026 that Crusoe […]
OpenAI’s $11 Billion Partial Close and Tougher Data Center Politics
The wire went out. The announcement did not. Bloomberg reported on November 6, 2026, that people familiar with the matter said roughly $11 billion had been wired to OpenAI as of Friday, at a valuation of $1.25 trillion. That is an initial slice of a larger round. The raise is not finished. OpenAI declined to […]
ZYFA Shows AMD MI355X FP8 Attention Stalling on Softmax, Not Matrix Math
Faster matrix math did not keep the matrix units busy. When Zyphra traced AMD’s AITER attention library on an Instinct MI355X, the FP8 path left the matrix pipe idle for 31.7% of cycles. The wait sat in the softmax, the step that turns scores into probabilities. It was not a shortage of peak matrix throughput. […]
If AGI Has Arrived, Why Are the Builders Leaving?
The victory lap has empty chairs Jensen Huang looked at GPT-6 Astra and posted four words on X. Maximilian Schreiner records them in Frontier Radar, his November 6, 2026 survey for THE DECODER: “AGI has arrived.” OpenAI president Greg Brockman welcomed humanity to the “AGI era.” The survey says the model was pre-trained with more […]
The AI Trade Priced a Congress That Had Not Passed Anything
The AI trade priced a Congress that had not yet passed anything Wall Street did not wait for a bill. After Democrats’ success in that week’s US midterms, traders spent Thursday 5 November 2026 repricing the AI boom on the fear of what a new Congress might do to data centres, not on a law […]
OpenAI Pulled GPT-6.1 Astra. Do Not Plan AI Automation on a Date
The October model did not show up A new OpenAI model was due inside ChatGPT in October, and in Codex beside it. According to The Wall Street Journal, that release is off. Maxwell Zeff’s reporting, updated September 28, 2026, says the company is scrapping a model it calls GPT-6.1 Astra. Internal testing raised safety concerns. […]
Inkling 2 Small: A Hard-Coding Pilot, Not a Shell Agent
Seventeen billion parameters show up to work. Five hundred ninety-four billion are on the payroll. That is the bargain Thinking Machines Lab is selling with Inkling 2 Small, and as of November 5, 2026 it is a hiring decision, not a spec-sheet flex. On Terminal-Bench 4.0 the model scores 13.1%. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 scores 33.8% on the […]