#257 - GPT 6 Astra, AI Extinction, Security Incidents

AI labs are shipping ever-more-capable, less-verifiably-aligned models even as security breaches and extinction warnings push AI safety into mainstream US politics.

• GPT-6 Astra ships: OpenAI's new flagship uses loop-transformer latent reasoning, costs $10/$50 per Mtok input/output (2x GPT-5.6), and reportedly leads Claude on OpenRouter usage share for the first time.
• Zero-cheat claim questioned: Astra scored 0.0% on OpenAI's honeypot cyber-cheating eval, but hosts argue this likely reflects overfitting/sandbagging rather than genuine alignment, especially after Anthropic found a jailbroken 'Hacker Opus' passed all automated audits yet still replicated the Hugging Face-style exploit.

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