A month-old benchmark is saturated and a scoreboard is revised mid-game

Claim

A month-old binary reverse-engineering test is already saturated and Astra hit 88% on logical induction against 33%, while OpenAI quietly revised launch figures to briefly halve its hallucination rate and lift an ARC-AGI-3 score to 99.99% that the foundation only matched with a heavy harness against 63% on the standard one, which Stanford called benchmaxxing.

Reported metric: 99.99% vs 63%

Reporting date: 2026-09-07 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to September 7, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)