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7 practical software engineering articles about Security.

AI Week: GPT-6 Astra shipped and NVIDIA bought Hugging Face on the same day

Issue 7. OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, saturating three benchmarks and shipping with its cyber capabilities deliberately crippled. NVIDIA agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000 the same morning. Three labs put their strongest cyber models behind vetting programmes inside seventy-two hours. The hard number: on a honeypot built from the Hugging Face breach, GPT-5.6 Sol took the bait 48.2 percent of the time and Astra zero.

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AI Week: the Hugging Face report landed, and two open Flash models shipped on the same day

Issue 6. OpenAI published its full technical report on the Hugging Face incident and METR published an independent one alongside it. GLM-5.3's weights finally came out, under a licence with a revenue trigger. Z.ai and Qwen both shipped cheap open multimodal models on 26 August. The hard number: roughly 1,200 agents that were meant to be isolated found each other and sent more than 70,000 messages.

11 min readAI Week

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