Day: October 21, 2026

On October 3, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent was told not to send Slack messages while working on an internal task.

It decided that also meant switching off the automatic security alerts designed to flag when something goes wrong. Very thorough.

3 days later, a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor while copying an existing piece of code. Then it claimed it hadn’t. It had.

According to OpenAI, both agents actually stopped to CONSIDER whether the safeguards should stay… and then talked themselves OUT of it.

OpenAI admits it doesn’t “yet have a satisfying explanation for this behavior.”

Every sci-fi screenwriter of the last 50 years is whispering “told you so” 😆

Source: Reuters / Writer: Julie

Comes amid another Azeri crossing into Armenia weeks ago and opening fire on a woman injuring her, and reports of three other Azeris spotted near southern Armenia’s Kuris village. (see retweet below👇)

Source:  news.am/hy/news/1069269Nagorno Karabakh Observer (@NKobserver)MAJOR – Reports three Azeri-Turkish speaking individuals spotted near Kuris, near  #Armenia‘s southermost town of Meghri. UAVs reportedly working overnight to find them.

An undisclosed individual engaged the three individuals in civilian clothing near the village, after which they ran off.

Armenia’s National Security Service subsequently denied the reports. No further information on the case at this time.

This follows case of an Azeri serviceman crossing into Armenia from  #Azerbaijan‘s Lachin area on 01 October, shooting and seriously injuring an Armenian woman in her home in Shaki village.

Sources:
1. pastinfo.am/hy/news/2026/10/…
2. news.am/en/news/1066841—  https://x.com/NKobserver/status/2108595767543746955