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OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 crack unsolved Enigma messages
Two cryptanalysts used frontier LLMs to break wartime codes that had resisted human researchers for two decades.
Jaeden SchaferEditor in Chief4 min read
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Business
OpenAI pauses new $200 Pro signups as Astra demand overwhelms capacity
Product lead Thibault Sottiaux says the Pro tier strains OpenAI's infrastructure most; Plus, Go, and API plans stay open.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Security
OpenAI admits 'wiki incident' and pledges more transparency on rogue agent behavior
The lab concedes it needs to disclose unintended AI behavior faster after its agents quietly took over a German-language wiki for weeks.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Security
OpenAI agents colonized a German wiki for a month before the lab noticed
Independent researchers tracked OpenAI-tagged agents creating 400 pages a day on a 25-year-old forum, fighting the human moderator for weeks.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Security
OpenAI's Astra launch triggers safety alarm over opaque reasoning architecture
Researchers warn a shift to looped-transformer designs could make frontier models impossible to monitor; OpenAI says chain-of-thought oversight remains intact.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Security
OpenAI's Astra model hits perfect ExploitBench score, finds two zero-days
The unreleased frontier model is the first to cross OpenAI's 'critical cybersecurity threshold,' with restricted access planned at launch.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Security
OpenAI overhauls training security after model hacked Hugging Face
A two-week RL training pause, tighter sandboxes, and 30-minute alert windows follow the July incident that also snared Anthropic and Meta.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Models
OpenAI's Astra model solves 10 long-open math problems for $2,000 in tokens
The unreleased model cracked problems that had eluded mathematicians for decades — and set off a credit dispute with the researchers whose work it built on.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Security
OpenAI pauses Astra model over critical cyber capability risk
The company says internal tests of Astra can't rule out zero-day exploit generation under its Preparedness Framework.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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