One AI Just Rewrote Another AI — And Researchers Are Split
MIT researchers report that OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra edited the weights of a smaller Qwen model directly, lifting its MATH-500 score from 7.9% to 48.1% after changing just 0.016% of its weights. The team calls the technique Weight-Space Programming and stresses the result is very early — and on the same day, Anthropic warned in a revised filing that AI may soon accelerate its own research. Sources: MIT CSAIL via The Register, TechCrunch, The Neuron, November 3, 2026. ...