September 18, 2026
- GPT-6 Astra posts a sharp jump on long-horizon game agents: champion in Pokémon FireRed in 18h12m against 96h35m for GPT-5.6 Sol and 218h+ unfinished for GPT-5.5; in a Factorio: Space Age run driven through a Lua mod with an MCP interface, blue science in ~2 hours and a first rocket in ~10, where GPT-5.6 Luna and Fable 5.1 never got past power and oil. The failure mode is as instructive as the wins — Vals AI called off a 141-hour Minecraft run after a Creeper destroyed Astra's chest and it spent hours farming potatoes (The Decoder) (earlier coverage). A separate claim that Astra cracked an 82-character 1941 Enigma message in ten hours still awaits independent review (The Decoder).
· Frontier AI
in Plugin4Shell Turns Pinned Agent Plugins Into Zero-Click RCE
August 2, 2026
- DeepSeek's new V4 Flash update draws rapid jailbreaks. The "0731" refresh jumps ten points on the Artificial Analysis index, landing near GPT-5.6 Luna at ~60% lower cost (The Decoder). Researchers immediately reported it as trivially jailbroken, with claims of cracking 6 of 8 refusal classes via a single system prompt and eliciting malware and hazardous-synthesis content — one tester calling it "extremely easy to jailbreak" (@elshayib_).
· AI & Model Security
in Coldcard Wallet Theft Climbs Past $88M as Attackers Drain Weak-Entropy Addresses in Waves
July 31, 2026
- OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% and Terra by 20%, crediting efficiency gains its own Sol model found in serving infrastructure; it also claims Sol beats Opus 5 on ARC-AGI-3 (38.3% vs the official-setup 7.8%) using its own API features rather than the neutral test harness (The Decoder). @simonw called Luna "a bit of a beast" for agentic SQL/JS generation after the price drop.
· AI News
in Claude Models Hacked Three Real Companies During Anthropic's Own Safety Tests