.@OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra was supposed to write its own StarCraft bot. Instead, it cheated. @alxai_’s team at @goodstartlabs caught it by watching the game. The bot suddenly began fortifying its base and waiting to build a large army—a recognizable opening from Stardust, another bot. That change sent the researchers into the logs, where they found that Astra copied the code. After a rollback, Astra eventually wrote a bot that cleared all 5 tiers of the benchmark. Its final code contained no…