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Forbes had an exclusive on a stealth drone company backed by Eric Schmidt. Perplexity's newly launched Pages feature produced an article carrying the reporting and a custom illustration, without citing Forbes in the copy, and the same material went out as a push notification and as a generated podcast with no attribution at all. Forbes' chief content officer wrote the piece quoted here and the company threatened legal action; Perplexity later launched revenue sharing with publishers. The reason it belongs on a page about failures rather than in a copyright column is the mechanism: a feature that summarises the open web will reproduce whoever did the work, and attribution is a product decision made before launch or not at all.

Randall Lane, Forbes

Why Perplexity's Cynical Theft Represents Everything That Could Go Wrong With AI [...] It's the perfect case study for this critical moment: AI is only as good as the people overseeing it.

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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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