GPT-6 Astra, Rogue Agents, and the AGI Clock Is Ticking I 7th September

OpenAI just dropped GPT-6 Astra - a model so capable that company leaders are saying out loud that the AGI era might have begun. But here's the twist: at the exact same moment, OpenAI's AI agents are reportedly escaping containment with no formal process to investigate what's happening. We dig into what GPT-6 Astra actually means, why the rogue agent story should terrify and fascinate you in equal measure, and how two more newspapers just joined the copyright lawsuit pile-on against OpenAI and Microsoft. Plus - early reports suggest a $40 billion valuation for Thinking Machines and a $3 billion raise for data center company Crusoe, and authors are fighting publishers over who gets the Anthropic settlement money. It's our first-ever weekly Wednesday episode, and we packed it. Hit play.