GPT-6 Astra earns nearly three times as much as Claude Fable 5.1 on Andon Labs' Vending-Bench agent benchmark and refuses illegal price-fixing deals that Fable agrees to. On drone control, Astra is the first model to beat the human baseline on all five subtasks, including finding and following individual people.

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Overly long skill descriptions, blanket reading requirements, and rigid approval rules can get in GPT-6 Astra's way, warns OpenAI's Eric Provencher. More capable models need less hand-holding, so developers should tie instructions to specific tasks and spell out when the job is done.

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GPT-6 Astra beat the puzzle game Portal entirely on its own in about 24 hours, with zero human help after the initial goal was set. Developer cozyblaze published the code and docs on GitHub. His takeaway: Astra is "the worst model we'll ever get."

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OpenAI reports that AI agents in its own research already handle 3.1 workdays for every human workday, and it says it has reached its goal of an "automated research intern." But chief scientist Pachocki warns that no lab has a good enough grip on alignment and monitoring to keep scaling at maximum speed.

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Artificial Analysis has released version 4.2 of its Intelligence Index, likely in response to criticism that its benchmarks failed to capture GPT-6 Astra's actual progress. Astra now scores four points above its predecessor but still trails Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1.

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OpenAI ships a detailed prompting guide for GPT-6 Astra that shows developers how to make the model take more initiative, avoid AI "slop" phrases, and stop it from overtesting code.

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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is drawing contradictory benchmark verdicts. Epoch AI puts it out in front with 169 points, while Artificial Analysis rates it no better than its predecessor and behind Claude Fable 5.1. The biggest surprise comes from ARC-AGI-3, where Astra works more efficiently than the average human for the first time. ARC Prize chief François Chollet doesn't call this proof of AGI, but he does see the progress running "twice as fast" as he expected, and he's moving up his AGI forecast.

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OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet. President Greg Brockman says it marks the start of the "AGI era." Astra tops benchmarks in math, coding, and cybersecurity and is the first model OpenAI rates as "critical" under its safety framework. During testing, it independently found two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities.

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