There's a buzzy new paper about GPT-6 Astra being able to directly interpret model weights (prompts full of floating point numbers) - I tried it with Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop and found that, after 45+ minutes, that model could achieve the same thing simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwe…
As AI becomes more capable at finding vulnerabilities, defenders need to put it to work before attackers do. We’re planning our next internal security sprint at OpenAI and partnering with Cathedral Systems, whose researchers will use our models alongside our teams to challenge our defenses. They’ll bring differentiated expertise and approaches to our ongoing work to find and fix weaknesses with AI. We’re also raising bug bounty rewards, including more than quadrupling rewards for critical findings. Exceptional findings will be eligible for up to $172,000, including bonuses. We’ll keep advancing our models, using them to strengthen our own systems, and expanding access for trusted defenders. openai.com/index/preparin…
Hackers breaking into European supermarket fridges (Sweden, Belgium) and raising temperatures to spoill food. Fascinating Reddit comment from someone works with supermarket control systems: ▫️fridges vulnerable due to old firmware (should update) ▫️systems are on public-facing IP addresses (should be behind VPN) ▫️the temperature is being “raised” by the fridge’s defrosting system (for maintenance, the fridge de-ices evaporator coils at least once a day…and hackers look to be running defrosting cycles non-stop which can “turn the case into a sauna”)
Setting up Grok Bots for boring businesses/SMBs might be one of the best AI businesses right now Give every agent its own computer, email, phone #, then charge like you're hiring an employee for $12 an hour Here's the whole plan: the stack, the offer and how to get customers.
When it comes to hiring, it’s easier to tame a reckless hustler than it is to instill that dawg in someone
The most grating aspect of LLM writing is that it tries to turn every single sentence into a punchline, a witty slogan, with no regard for which sentences need emphasis and which ones don't. "A tiring formula, overused"
We gave our 𝕏 app icons a little refresh.
a few tips on how to edit videos with opus 5.5/astra/davinci and do things like color grading
maybe a hot take but i now consider adversarial reviews mostly a waste of tokens. far better to use those tokens on empirical combined with formal verification. i have updated pstack to use the interrogate skill less, and eventually i think i may remove it altogether i have found very little value with code review in the abstract, agents tend to just get lost in the nitpicks and yagnis
today i learned that Elon is getting into space drugs it's called Starfall and it's basically a flying drug lab > drug companies pack their ingredients into a 10-foot-wide capsule > a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries it into orbit > the drugs grow on their own with nobody on board > then the capsule falls back to Earth and parachutes into the Pacific the reason they go through all that hassle is that drugs come out way better when they’re made in space because the tiny crystals they’re made of grow evenly up there instead of lumpy like they do on Earth take Keytruda, the best-selling drug in the world scientists grew its crystals on the space station, which helped turn it from a 2-hour IV drip into a 1-minute shot and the craziest part is that some medicine might only be possible to develop up there for example: scientists couldn't get clean crystals of a key Duchenne muscular dystrophy protein on Earth but the ones grown in space finally showed its shape and led to a new drug…
The great gift of agents is how they allow you to route around every insufferable gatekeeper in software.
Our team built a Team Bot that gives everyone at the company on-demand access to a data scientist. PMs use Data Bot to investigate product usage, marketers use it to measure campaign results, and teams across the company use it to build dashboards and track key metrics.
What's New in Grok Bot 00:14 Shopping cards 00:27 Product pages 00:39 Order tracking 00:53 Payments 01:33 Custom modes 01:52 Team Bot logins and setup 02:09 Share and find Team Bots 02:51 Connector asks in Slack 03:12 Contacts in Vault 03:31 Rapid fire
one week in my takeaway is that you don't need unlimited tokens to do great work, the $200 plans are amazing and this is the most expensive intelligence will ever be
For AGI to benefit all of humanity, it should help people with the everyday tasks that matter most to them. So we built LifeVal, a new benchmark shaped by feedback from thousands of ChatGPT users on where they most want help from a personal assistant—from finding childcare to accessing government services to managing personal finances. Over the past year, we’ve used LifeVal to measure and improve how well our models handle these everyday tasks. openai.com/index/lifeval/
SITUATION DETECTED: Researchers at MIT show that GPT-6 Astra can natively read and write neural network weights through pure reasoning - no gradients, no training loops - calling it Weight-Space Programming.
I asked Claude: "What types of businesses outside of the labs will get stronger as raw intelligence explodes?" Honestly, spot on response.
Applications are now open for the Anthropic Residency, a paid, fixed-term research program for academics, technical founders, and staff-level engineers who want to make AI safe and beneficial for everyone. No ML background is required. Apply by November 22: alignment.anthropic.com/2026/anthropic…
