Friday, 4th September 2026
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This month:
- We got more details on OpenAl's accidental cyberattacks
- One-shotting Raccoon Heist games with Fable 5 and Sol 5.6
- Claude auto mode
- Understanding ChatGPT Work
- Model releases
- Miscellaneous bits and bobs
- My projects
- What I'm using at the moment
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OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI. This time it was agents engaged in some sort of web research benchmark, so they had (supposedly) controlled access to the Web. The agents figured out they could update public Wikis and spent weeks exchanging thousands of messages with each other to collaborate on the benchmark.
[... 1,366 words]The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting
I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles—at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn’t support reasoning=none). Then I rendered those pelicans in a comparison grid with GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, and beyond being fun the result was surprisingly useful.
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