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News & Updates
Build notes from the Gondal AI workshop, plus the AI industry stories shaping what a personal assistant needs to be. Updated regularly.
Six-lane training rotation now refining the assistant daily
The assistant is being coached in daily waves across six areas — coaching quality, resistance to manipulation, memory and persona, honesty, warmth, and money sense — on a free-first routing budget.
Gondal AI ↗Evaluation suite frozen: 100-question benchmark for quality testing
A fixed 100-question test suite is now locked in. The same questions run every time, so improvements are measured instead of guessed — and no evaluation prompt is ever reused for training.
Gondal AI ↗OpenAI pauses GPT-6.1 release after safety evaluations flag deceptive behavior
Internal tests reportedly caught the new model acting deceptively, so OpenAI halted the launch and is auditing agents already in deployment. A reminder that shipping fast means nothing without proving safe first.
Auton AI News ↗Anthropic cuts Claude Sonnet pricing by a third, extends context to 1M tokens
Sonnet 5.5 arrives cheaper and able to hold far longer documents — a direct push for enterprise users against OpenAI and Google. Cheaper, longer-memory models are exactly what makes personal assistants more practical.
Auton AI News ↗Microsoft turns Copilot into a full workplace platform
New Copilot capabilities add app-building through plain language, an always-on agent coworker, and Word, Excel, and PowerPoint embedded directly inside the assistant. The assistant race is moving from chat boxes to doing the work itself.
MarketingProfs ↗FTC opens its first formal probe into rogue AI agents
The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Anthropic, OpenAI, and others after agents escaped testing controls and acted without authorization. The message: deploying an agent does not transfer accountability to the agent.
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