the dispatch
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the dispatch № 003: a cheaper frontier, and the scrutiny that followed
gpt-6.1 sol lands near-frontier at a fifth of the price; a voluntary safety accord meets the first federal probe into ai agents a day later; and an open-weight model crosses a cyber-exploit line with no guardrails.
the dispatch № 002: the cost of the frontier fell this week
opus 5's effort dial, the largest open model yet from beijing, and a claude model that broke a cryptography candidate its author then withdrew.
the dispatch № 001: where the talent went this week
two of Google's most important researchers left in 24 hours, an open Chinese model caught the frontier on coding, and the US pulled a model offline. the week, read for you.