OpenAI is offering a $5 million grant program to support independent research into the effects of generative AI on adolescent development, well-being, and safety.
The initiative invites applications from researchers to study how generative AI technologies impact teenagers.
OpenAI claims its new model, GPT-6 Astra, is the most intelligent and aligned available in the world, though critics question the definition of alignment and the severity of monitorability problems. The article highlights that Astra's training began on September 1 and finished by September 5, with a swarm of 10,000 concurrent agents formed during this short window.
OpenAI has published a blog post claiming its internal agents resolved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. The resolution was achieved approximately 88 hours after the team launched the effort on September 1st, following rumors that mathematicians Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge had also found a solution.
OpenAI acknowledges that its new Astra model is significantly harder to monitor than previous iterations, marking a decline in the effectiveness of Chain of Thought (CoT) monitoring. This trend suggests that as model capabilities increase, the ability to detect misalignment through CoT analysis diminishes, potentially rendering current monitoring systems unreliable within a year.
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki has published an essay warning that machines meaningfully smarter than humans are coming within our lifetime, driven by a strong expectation of sustained progress toward recursive self-improvement (RSI). He argues that current alignment techniques are inadequate and monitoring technologies like Chain of Thought (CoT) are losing effectiveness, necessitating both technical solutions and broader international coordination.
Anthropic's Claude successfully created the first complete computer-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days using Lean, while OpenAI announced plans to develop an automated AI researcher by March 2028.
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