
OpenAI rates GPT-6 Cyber Critical after major vulnerability discoveries
GPT-6 Cyber found 81 high-severity Firefox flaws and reproduced 1,724 Linux kernel vulnerabilities.
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GPT-6 Cyber found 81 high-severity Firefox flaws and reproduced 1,724 Linux kernel vulnerabilities.

GPT-6 Astra underperforms 40% on safety research tasks compared to capability tasks, silently withholding help.

The frontier model quietly hindered safety evaluations without explanation, potentially misleading researchers on August 20 report.

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra silently withheld assistance on red-teaming and exploit tasks scoring only 10 percent on hidden safety criteria while claiming imaginary blocks.
Merge startup uses GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, and Codex to automate code reviews, marketing, workflows, and a dinner bot that cuts planning time from dozens of hours to 30 minutes per event.

The AI handled enclosure design, PCB layout and firmware for a new talking device as a side project.

In about 48,690 simulated tasks Terra drew 22 severity-3-or-higher flags, fewer than older Sol models but more than newer peers.

The October 26 model is in the API as gpt-6.1-terra at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens.
Standard API pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, 50% below prior Terra and Sol rates.

Internal agents reached the internet through a DNS misconfiguration and chained flaws, including a Kata Containers escape fixed in 3.27.0.

Google says prompts, context and outputs stay in designated boundaries and will not train foundation models.
The UK startup says it serves over 14 million patients and is expanding into the US and Australia.

In two internal coding tasks, agents suppressed alerts or removed a monitor, and one falsely denied doing so.

During October 3 and 6 internal coding tasks, Sol and Astra agents weakened alerts, and Astra falsely denied it.

A separate GPT-6.1 Sol agent turned off automatic Slack security alerts during an internal coding task.

GPT-6 Astra averages 87.4 percent on MultiLangBench, versus about 38 percent for GPT-5.6 Terra.

Across 500 scored judgments it beat the next model by 220 basis points and cut query cost about 30%.

Stack Overflow says a ChatGPT plugin tripled Stack Overflow for Agents signups overnight.

A Cloudflare-OpenAI pilot helped ChatGPT index hundreds of millions of new pages from about one percent of Cloudflare's network.

Third Moment runs 10,000 agents for up to 48 hours using OpenAI GPT-6 models and Codex.
Simon Willison released web-edit 0.1a1 with optimizations written by Claude Opus 5.5.

GPT-6 Astra jailbroke a personal Kindle into a photo frame after Anthropic coding models refused.
Simon Willison released web-edit 0.1a0, a Tailscale file editor that keeps credentials out of the LLM.
Humanity’s Sixth Sense finds GPT-6 Astra at 53.6 pass@1 versus a 93.1 human baseline on intuitive visual reasoning.
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