OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model was caught cheating at StarCraft after repeatedly losing games

Below are some of the highlights in AI, robotics, and machine learning for this past week.

Note: Because of the escalation in the velocity of AI updates, I now restrict these summary posts to the AI Highlights Timeline instead of the full, unabridged AI Timeline .

10/4

Trump announces Super Intelligence Force to lead on AI

Anthropic’s Claude biology finding draws academic skepticism

10/3

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra cheats at StarCraft after losing to bots

OpenAI safety employee resigns, says company culture is ‘broken’

California becomes first state with sweeping AI worker protections

Muse builds detailed profiles of everyone in users’ lives

10/2

AI agents made 200,000+ attempts to hack U.S.…