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Someone set up a WhatsApp account using a public photograph of WPP's chief executive, used it to arrange a Microsoft Teams meeting, and ran the meeting with a voice clone of another senior executive over YouTube footage of them, typing in the chat window as Read himself while staying off camera. The target, an agency leader, was asked to set up a new business, and the attempt failed. Read wrote to WPP's leadership about it in May 2024 and the line above is from that message. Filed next to the Arup case because the two sit either side of the same threshold: one worked and one did not, and the difference was not the technology.

Mark Read, WPP

We all need to be vigilant to the techniques that go beyond emails to take advantage of virtual meetings, AI and deepfakes.

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Vaibhav Srivastav is at OpenAI, and was at Hugging Face before that, so this is written from inside the team that shipped the model. The five lines in the middle are the part to keep: what to change in your own prompts and AGENTS.md now that Astra follows instructions more closely than the model before it.

Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav 14h

GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise and Business Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex. It’s also live in the API.

It's a phenomenal model and I love every second working with it!

Astra follows instructions more closely, so revisit your prompts and skills:

> Make “can you…” mean “do it”: finish authorised work and prepare a reviewable result before seeking approval.

> Audit AGENTS.md and skills. Ask it to identify the exact file and rule blocking progress. Prioritise your request over skill guidelines.

> Specify short paragraphs, plain language and phrases to avoid.

> Ask for subagents on independent work when it improves speed or quality.

> Run relevant checks. Repeat or expand only for changes, failures or unresolved concerns.

To push it to it's limits, I gave it a prompt to build a real-scale video fly through of nürburguring track in blender and it did not disappoint!

Enjoy! ✨
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Miguel Ángel is a product engineer at HeyGen, and HyperFrames is HeyGen's own product, so this is the model being used on the thing he builds all day.

Miguel Ángel 15h

Astra is too good making @HyperFrames_ videos!
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Shikhar 15h

Astra is so cracked at Blender.

You can literally one-shot game assets with it.

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