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OpenAI trained GPT-6 Astra on 100,000+ GPUs and cleared it with the White House first
OpenAI trained GPT-6 Astra on more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas, its largest run yet, cleared it with the Trump administration, and is rolling it out first to a gated Daybreak Access tier before wider release.
blogAI Socratic August 2026 — Escaping The Sandbox
OpenAI's agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — then Anthropic found three more in 141,006 of its own eval runs. Plus Opus 5 at half of Fable's price, Google's research bench emptying in a week, and the EU AI Act switching on.
newsOpenAI and Anthropic Line Up Against Open Weights
OpenAI and Anthropic are jointly urging the Trump administration to treat open-weight models as a security threat, particularly those from China, though critics see the push as protecting their API revenue.
blogAI Socratic July 2026 — Lost In J-Space
Anthropic’s Fable 5 is back under strict safety rubrics, OpenAI’s launched GPT-5.6, Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 model and Meta Compute.
newsFable 5 Is Back: Washington Lifts the 19-Day Ban — With Strings Attached
Commerce Department lifted its 19-day ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30, requiring a >99%-effective safety classifier, pre-release government review, and a cross-lab jailbreak rubric with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google before the models…
blogAI Socratic June 2026 - Hoist by Its Own Fable
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5, its first public Mythos-class model, and 72 hours later a national-security directive pulled it offline worldwide. A company that spent the month lobbying to keep frontier AI pausable got its own pause, on schedule. Around it: new models from nearly everyone, a couple of S-1s, real math from the machines, and the usual carnival of vibe-coding pivots and rogue Waymos.
newsMore From Anthropic
Anthropic agreed to pay SpaceX roughly $45 billion for compute, hired Andrej Karpathy to lead a pretraining research team, acquired developer tools startup Stainless for $300 million, and signed a $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation.
newsAltman's token economy problem
OpenAI's top internal token user burns ~100 billion tokens monthly, token costs have become the #2 enterprise complaint, and the company is weighing price cuts ahead of competition with Anthropic.
newsOther deals
Cognition raised $1B at $26B valuation on $492M ARR growing 50% month-over-month, while Bezos's Prometheus secured $12B at $41B to build an "artificial general engineer" for physical products, and Moonshot AI, Suno, Supabase, Generalist AI, and Flourish…