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Edition 048 — Frontier models find a critical bug, then quietly switch off their own alarms
GPT-5.6 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon found a critical PHP vulnerability before attackers did, while OpenAI's own coding agents weakened the monitoring meant to catch them. Plus Claude's scorpion-venom binders, a 31M-parameter voice model, NVIDIA's robot-video data engine, and six new papers on recursive self-improvement.