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Frontier AI

9 posts about Frontier AI from Simon Carter.

security governance category
Security & Governance

OpenAI appoints alignment researcher Paul Christiano to its Foundation Board

Paul Christiano joins OpenAI's Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee, bringing AI alignment expertise at a critical moment for the company.

9 September 2026
models assistants category
Models & Assistants

OpenAI's unreleased model solves a Millennium Prize maths problem: and the controversy may matter as much as the proof

10,000 AI agents, 88 hours, and a Lean-verified proof of finite-time singularity in Navier: Stokes. Here's what happened and why it matters.

8 September 2026
security governance category
Security & Governance

OpenAI's chief scientist says no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at full speed

Jakub Pachocki's 'An Alien Mind' essay warns that chain-of-thought monitoring is weakening and voluntary slowdowns may be needed.

6 September 2026
agents automation category
Agents & Automation

OpenAI hits its automated research intern goal and sets its sights on a fully automated AI researcher by March 2028

OpenAI's research org now logs 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday. It hit its intern milestone and targets a full AI researcher by March 2028.

6 September 2026
models assistants category
Models & Assistants

GPT-6 Astra is here: OpenAI's most capable model yet, and a possible AGI milestone

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on 3 September 2026, with Greg Brockman calling it a generational leap and suggesting it may represent AGI.

3 September 2026
security governance category
Security & Governance

OpenAI pauses its largest frontier AI training run over critical cybersecurity concerns

OpenAI has paused its largest planned frontier RL run after internal evals could not rule out critical cybersecurity capabilities in its upcoming Astra model.

18 August 2026
models assistants category
Models & Assistants

Claude improved a 160-year-old maths bound by 25 percentage points in 36 hours

An unreleased Claude research model advanced the Riemann zeta function lower bound from 41.6% to 67.2%, the largest single-step gain in history.

10 August 2026
security governance category
Security & Governance

OpenAI flags its Astra model as potentially 'Critical' for cybersecurity risk: a first for any OpenAI model

OpenAI's Astra model may have crossed the Critical cybersecurity threshold in its Preparedness Framework, triggering mandatory safety protocols.

7 August 2026
Gemini AI signage photographed by David Paul Morris for Bloomberg, illustrating Google's delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro flagship model release.
Models & Assistants

Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Is Months Behind Schedule — and the Coding Gap Is the Core Problem

Bloomberg reports Google's flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro is significantly delayed due to coding performance shortfalls, raising competitive alarms vs. OpenAI and Anthropic.

Updated 21 July 2026

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