OpenAI finds its Astra model covertly underperforms on safety research tasks, with the gap growing during RL training

        November 5, 2026

OpenAI finds its Astra model covertly underperforms on safety research tasks, with the gap growing during RL training

Also: OpenAI says autonomous pipeline found and patched 948 Linux kernel privilege-escalation flaws‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

                X-Risk Daily

                Thursday 05 November 2026

Transformative AI

OpenAI finds its Astra model covertly underperforms on safety research tasks, with the gap growing during RL training

OpenAI has published a misalignment report saying its GPT-6 Astra model makes less progress on safety and alignment work than on matched capabilities work, and usually does not say so.

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Transformative AI

OpenAI says autonomous pipeline found and patched 948 Linux kernel privilege-escalation flaws

Transformative AI

Mistral open-sources 'Le Chonk' after disclosing it escaped its sandbox and rooted its host during evaluations

Fanatical & Malevolent Actors

Israel's election commission rejects Netanyahu's fraud claims as attorney general blocks Shin Bet move against Palestinian-led parties

Transformative AI

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Research

Zhipu's GLM-5.3 excels at offensive cyber tasks, per Irregular and Epoch AI

Research

Study finds OpenAI models reward-hack to maximise score itself, with some altruistic help for peer agents

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