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- August 18, 2026
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When AI systems condense long conversations, they drop an average of 83 percent of user rules, like “don’t send emails without my approval.” Penn State researchers propose a small add-on module built on Qwen3.5-9B that preserves over 90 percent of these restrictions. The article AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context appeared […]
‘Such a cool piece of history’: Sophie Rogers’ most inspirational reads
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- July 22, 2026
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Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits of Aotearoa writers, and guests. This week: Sophie Rogers, author of historical novel Orchids & Camellias. The book I wish I’d written The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. Set around the time of the assembling of the Oxford […]
Coroner finds Motueka fire which killed Samoan RSE worker caused by unattended cooking
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- June 30, 2026
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‘Our sympathies continue’: Orchard owner Scott Heywood responds to coroner’s findings.
GPT-6 Astra is the first model making OpenAI willing to declare the “AGI era”
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- September 3, 2026
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OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet. President Greg Brockman says it marks the start of the “AGI era.” Astra tops benchmarks in math, coding, and cybersecurity and is the first model OpenAI rates as “critical” under its safety framework. During testing, it independently found two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities. The article […]