
Researchers extract hidden GPT-5.6 reasoning through an OpenAI API flaw
OpenAI confirmed the bug, paid Xint a $6,000 bounty, and deployed an undisclosed fix on October 23.
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OpenAI confirmed the bug, paid Xint a $6,000 bounty, and deployed an undisclosed fix on October 23.
Models first entertain the enriched reading, then cancel it; early answers recover implicatures without losing literal accuracy.
Simon Willison releases ttok 1.0, switching the default tokenizer from GPT-4 to the GPT-5 family.
GUI-HARVEST evolves GUI agent harnesses, lifting frozen Qwen3-VL by 12.33 points on OSWorld.
DAGent grows research-agent plans from evidence and beats open baselines on BrowseComp-Plus, GAIA, and xbench-DeepSearch.
Simon Willison's WeAreDevelopers keynote surveys 2026 LLM trends, starting with Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1.
OLIVE updates a student on teacher continuations of student-generated prefixes, beating offline distillation under the same budget.
DataMagic authors accurate data videos from tables via declarative multi-agent orchestration, beating GPT-5 baselines.
Study of 450,000 GPT-lineage completions finds safety training transforms gender discrimination into subtle 'harm laundering' that toxicity classifiers miss.

Two high school students used Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol to help solve an open Lorentzian polynomials problem, posting a 75-page arXiv proof.

Check Point details PuzzleMask, a plain-prose technique that bypasses LLM gatekeeper policy checks, letting hidden payloads reach target models unreviewed.
MetroLLM-Bench is a 955-case benchmark testing language models as transit kiosk tool-calling runtimes across six real metro systems.

OpenAI researcher Sébastien Bubeck allegedly pressured mathematician Tristan Buckmaster to drop his Anthropic co-author from an AI-assisted Navier-Stokes breakthrough paper.
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