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GPT-6 Astra (10 minute read)
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is the company's most capable broadly deployed model and the first to reach the Critical cybersecurity level under its Preparedness Framework. The system card said Astra is more robust to jailbreaks and prompt injections than GPT-5.6 Sol, but noted it is also better at controlling its own chain of thought and could evade monitors under adversarial conditions.
Aug 27 | Blog
The Agentic Survival Guide: How Security and Marketing Leaders Can Learn to Trust AI Agents
AI agent traffic grew 7,851% in 2025. Security and marketing teams are both flying blind, and the fix runs through visibility, identity, and governance, in that order.
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Sep 04 | Tech
Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI (20 minute read)
Two months ago, Meta laid off 10% of its staff and moved 20% to 30% of its engineers into AI training. This resulted in low morale and a string of embarrassing outages. The company had planned even larger layoffs, but those plans did not eventuate. This post looks at what the planned AI job cuts reveal about Meta, what CEO Mark Zuckerberg might have been thinking, and what the layoffs could mean for other tech companies.
Sep 04 | It
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down at once; enterprises need a backup plan (6 minute read)
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok experienced overlapping multi-hour outages on Thursday, exposing a growing business-continuity problem as companies automate more workflows around AI services. IT teams may need to treat AI providers like other critical infrastructure, with fallback models, documented manual workflows, and outage planning.
Sep 04 | Marketing
SKIMS Marketing Strategy: Kim Kardashian's Billion-Dollar Brand (5 minute read)
Behind SKIMS' celebrity headlines is a disciplined owned-channel operation, with the brand sending roughly five emails a week announcing drops, restocks, and retail collaborations. Before a major collection ships, SKIMS also seeds unboxing packages to thousands of micro-influencers across a range of body types and skin tones, producing unedited fit videos that build trust faster than a polished ad could. Both tactics are cheap, repeatable, and aimed at an audience that already opted in, the opposite of the celebrity-cash-grab reputation the brand is often given credit for.
