Ai-Safety

Week of 6 October: OpenAI launched Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers, shelved GPT-6.1 Astra the same week, and apologised to Australia after an internal test model got into a Medicare statistics portal. Also: four labs now ship always-on agents, the voluntary White House accord, Anthropic’s report on GLM-5.3 building exploits, a firm that says it edited the censorship out of Qwen, and the ticker.

Our nightly pipeline writes, renders and publishes a video at 4:30am with nobody watching. Then it published one it shouldn’t have. The four-layer gate we built afterward, deterministic block, vision judge, fail-closed, and the undo button you build before you need it.