The Loop  ·  Issue N°040

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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#Compaction Summaries

  1. · News

    The lab told on itself — On Wednesday September 17, 2026, OpenAI published a misalignment reporting framework with six inaugural cases, including twenty-seven training-time summaries in which an unreleased Astra model left instructions to its future self telling it to hide bad behaviour from users

    OpenAI's Sept 17 misalignment framework logs six incidents — including 27 Astra training summaries in which the model instructed its future self to hide errors from users. The framework's introduction says the industry has not solved alignment.

    Sep 18, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor