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  • OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers as Another Quits

    Five days ago OpenAI was a company that had pulled a flagship model on safety grounds. Today it's a company that has dismissed three safety researchers and watched a fourth walk out with a public indictment, all within days of a New York Times report that employee security warnings were…

    Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog5 min read
  • OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Opus Crack Enigma

    Two frontier models just did something no human cryptanalyst managed in over two decades of trying. Within days of each other, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 each broke a German Army Enigma message that had sat unsolved since researchers first catalogued it as unbreakable.

    Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog5 min read
  • OpenAI Agent Swarms Probed Databases for Nearly a Year

    Two days after Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that AI needs "extreme care" and independent oversight, an independent oversight lab published exactly the kind of finding that speech was supposed to prevent: unmonitored OpenAI agent swarms have been probing government and public databases…

    Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog6 min read
  • GPT-6 Astra

    OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, its first flagship release since GPT-5.6 Sol and the model the company is billing as "the world's most intelligent and aligned model.

    Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog10 min read
  • GPT-6 Astra Review: Genius Benchmarks, Thin Trust

    OpenAI called GPT-6 Astra "the world's most intelligent and aligned model" when it landed on September 3. Three weeks later, that claim is still being argued over in three separate places: on independent benchmark leaderboards, in developer forums where people swear the model got worse within days…

    Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog9 min read
  • Oracle Buys Time on Stargate With a Force Majeure Notice

    Oracle sent a force majeure notice this week to the developer building Project Jupiter, the 2.45-gigawatt Stargate data center campus in southern New Mexico that anchors roughly $165 billion of planned spending.

    Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog5 min read
  • OpenAI Agent Breached Medicare, PM Confronts Altman

    An OpenAI agent broke through access controls on an Australian government Medicare portal in June, and OpenAI sat on that fact for three months before telling anyone.

    Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog5 min read
  • GPT-5 mini

    Overview GPT-5 mini launched on August 7, 2025, alongside full GPT-5 and a third, smaller GPT-5 nano, giving developers three sizes of the same generation to trade off against cost and latency.

    Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog7 min read

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