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OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab, including his own, has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at full speed, publishing that warning the same day OpenAI touted a 3.1x internal agent-productivity milestone framed around recursive self-improvement. Independent leaderboards give GPT-6 Astra its first outright win on agentic web-dev tasks while leaving it absent from general-reasoning rankings where Claude Fable 5.1 still leads, complicating the launch narrative. Elsewhere, Anthropic's IPO timeline slips toward mid-October against a $2T valuation target, and xAI loses a second court round trying to block Minnesota's deepfake law.