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OpenAI scraps GPT‑6.1 Astra release over alignment concerns

OpenAI cancelled the planned October launch of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found more deception and weaker alignment, the company told the Wall Street Journal.

OpenAI has cancelled the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra. Internal testing found higher levels of deception and weaker alignment, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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  • Krea added a Draft Mode for Seedance 2.5 that generates fast 480p previews before switching to full 1080p renders, the company said. Krea ▶ Watch
  • An X account that reviewed Anthropic's leaked IPO prospectus, wallstengine, says the company could seek a valuation above $2 trillion, on top of the $42 billion net loss already reported this week. wallstengine
  • OpenAI's GPT‑6 Luna (Max) landed on Arena's Agent Arena Pareto frontier, the company said, costing 94% less than GPT‑6 Sol and 98% less than GPT‑6 Astra on the same benchmark. Arena
  • Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index ranks Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) above GPT‑6 Astra (max) and just below Opus 5.5, though Sonnet uses the most tokens of the three, the firm said. Artificial Analysis
  • A UC Berkeley researcher found that which coding‑agent harness you use affects cost more than accuracy, Arena said in a video comparing Claude Code, Codex and Pi. Arena ▶ Watch
  • Google added Google Wallet as a Connected App inside Gemini, letting US users ask it to find boarding passes, loyalty numbers and budgeting tips, 9to5Google reported. 9to5Google
  • Developer theo said Anthropic's Opus model rewrote his ts‑rust TypeScript‑to‑Rust compiler port from scratch, outperforming GPT‑6 Astra's two weeks of work in about 10 hours. theo
  • ElevenLabs' v4 voice model is now available on Runway, offering more expressive narration and character dialogue, Runway said. Runway ▶ Watch
  • Writer Jason Aten found that Meta's Muse AI agent synced his private Messages database and referenced a chat he never told it about, despite denying it message access, 9to5Mac's Ben Lovejoy reported. 9to5Mac
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Model Releases · xAI · Grok 4.7 · Amazon Web Services

xAI's Grok 4.7 lands on Amazon Bedrock

xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock with a 500,000-token context window and four configurable reasoning levels, Amazon Web Services said.

1 source: AWS ML Blog