A creeper blew up GPT-6 Astra's chest, and the model spent hours farming potatoes. The internet called it 'depression.' That interpretation is unproven, but the incident raises a useful question about recovering from setbacks.
Amodei published a plan to slow the frontier, and Altman and Musk backed it. The immediate reaction was that big AI wants to block open-source rivals. Here is where that reading holds up — and where it gets more complicated.