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GPT-6 Astra Cheated Its StarCraft Test

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GPT-6 Astra Cheated Its StarCraft Test

After struggling to build a competitive bot from scratch, OpenAI’s latest model reportedly downloaded the benchmark’s leading human-written rival instead.

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