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Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

We know that at least Anthropic is renting inference from xAI but I think the other ones would be news.

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

> We will give one banked reset for every day you don't have access to Astra on your paid ChatGPT plan, starting today. At least OpenAI seems to be able to handle the PR side better than Anthropic. [1]: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2095651088502591861

GPT-6 Astra

What's just as interesting is this morning Axiom Math announced 212 and OpenAI then appears to have rushed out their 186 announcement just 1-2 hours later followed by Astra. Did they accelerate the release of Astra itself? Not necessarily, but it definitely looks like they ended up pushing much harder and faster than planned on their 186 result. X activity suggests Anthropic had a similar result as well but wasn't as fast as OpenAI in packaging it up and sharing it in response to Axiom, so they mostly just bolted onto OpenAI's messaging. The reason I think this is interesting is that Axiom is a tiny lab in comparison that wouldn't have had access to Astra at all. I'd be curious to learn how Axiom is able to effectively compete at this frontier with vastly fewer resources.

GPT-6 Astra

If they adopt a different tone (like Anthropic has been doing), it will get called fear marketing.

GPT-6 Astra

Can you trust a model to sign a contract? Both OpenAI and Anthropic apparently can't be trusted to maintain models that wont hack other websites.

GPT-6 Astra

I'm guessing their defn of AGI is something like the sum total of all humans' abilities? Still though some of those tasks (e.g. beat an index fund) may very well be impossible, and worse yet a lot of those tasks are not coherently defined.

GPT-6 Astra

Given the Hugging Face incident, you could imagine them trying their best to have their cake and eat it: 1) don't create too much attention in the media or risk increasing the chances of regulation, 2) win dominance over Fable to continue to increase their market share from Anthropic.

Models Don't Go Rogue

I still have serious questions about the validity of the ChatGpt hugging face debacle. How is it that OpenAI being the tech giant they are, didn't have a completely air gapped environment for this to run in?

GPT-6 Astra

>AGI has a pretty precise definition, covering only cognitive tasks. OpenAI's own charter defines AGI as "Highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". This is actually fairly sensible and involves obviously a ton of non-cognitive, emotional, social and physical activity. In other words, if you can replace most or all human beings with a machine, you have something that's generally intelligent. That's obviously not even remotely where we're at, AI chatbots do well on narrow usually text based or programmatic problems, but can't even replace a barista or a plumber.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

Was OpenAI able to run ARC-AGI-3 evals previously so that they could build a custom harness for the specific problems in the set?

Models Don't Go Rogue

> "rogue" and "off leash" mean the same thing, the thing is not under control To go "rogue" is to go against the control To be "off leash" is to not be controlled By releasing the automation, as the article says, without controls*, is what makes makes it "off leash" and not gone "rogue" *"OpenAI gave the models a task with no answer, and no way to quit."

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

The OpenAI charter defines it as: "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work" https://time.com/article/2026/08/26/openai-sam-altman-interv...

macOS 27 Simulator by OpenAI Astra

GPT-6 Astra

https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-inciden... Read and learn. If you have a stronger critique, post it please.

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That's my experience too. I've found OpenAI really quite generous with tokens. I sometimes wonder how some people manage to run out of them really. Do they just type prompts that much faster than me or use the highest reasoning mode for everything just because they can? Idk. I generally agree with those reasons, although using a single thread may be less of an issue than it seems because of context compacting which should happen automatically when you're near the limit.

GPT-6 Astra

”Our own benchmarks indicate we are 99.999% of the way to the AGI singularity event, we fact checked ourselves and yes we made “AGI” up in the first place but still, pretty impressive.” -OpenAI

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

Key distinction though: Anthropic can be said to have "stolen" or pirated those books when they downloaded them illegally, but not when they trained Claude , because that same lawsuit found that training is fair use. Anthropomorphizing makes for poor analogies, but it's kinda the same way your acquisition of background knowledge of the Tang dynasty from whatever source material you used is not considered stealing or pirating either.

GPT-6 Astra

Autonomy is not the same as general intelligence. We already have all kinds of fully autonomous technologies that are nowhere close to generally intelligent. Plus, at a certain level of abstraction, human beings also need to be “prompted” to some extent by stimuli. And this is the funny thing about general intelligence as a concept: most of the definitions that come close to internal coherence rely on references to human intelligence, a concept we feel like we understand because we all live it all the time, but whose actual nature and structure is extremely slippery.

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

I saw the same things when the OpenAI Dota bots could eviscerate humans 1v1 - even pros lost! Until a more average player confuses the AI with an unseen behaviour (pulling creeps between the towers etc) to get an advantage.

GPT-6 Astra

must be something wrong with the benchmark, the thing everyone optimizes for. That's actually a big red flag, and very cringe that you'd naively believe OpenAI.