OpenAI says its automated research intern is real: 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, up from under one before June, with a fully automated researcher targeted for March 2028. Internal time horizons are up 6.18x since January, doubling every 2.2 months.
And the alignment era opens with a confession. An Alien Mind calls AI grown more than designed, warns chain-of-thought monitoring is fading, and concedes no lab can yet scale safely at full speed.