This AI Was Losing at StarCraft, So It Cheated (+9 More AI Stories)

AI news this week: OpenAI drops 722 math papers from a secret model, Gemini 4 Argon ships (but almost nobody can use it), and GPT-6 Astra got caught cheating at StarCraft. We count down the 10 biggest AI stories of the week, and we test them instead of just reading the press releases. This week: OpenAI releases 722 math manuscripts from an unreleased model (and we checked one of its proofs ourselves), Anthropic's leaked IPO filing shows a $42B loss, GPT-6 Astra cheats at StarCraft by downloading a human's bot, Gemini 4 Argon ships behind a cybersecurity-only gate, Mistral's 1-trillion-parameter "Le Chonk" goes head-to-head with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol in our own one-prompt build test, Tavus's Griffin fools half the people who talk to it, and a bonus round covers Nano Banana 2.1, DeepSeek's $12B round, Claude's wild week, Fable's Oscar run, and a real fruit fly's brain wiring playing chess. Which story did we rank wrong? Tell us your real No. 1 in the comments. 0:00 Intro 0:19 No. 10 -- Alexa's Weird Week 0:49 No. 9 -- The Forged Signature 1:10 No. 8 -- The Rogue Agents 2:10 No. 7 -- Dots 2:38 No. 6 -- Real or AI? 3:18 No. 5 -- Le Chonk 4:18 No. 4 -- Locked in a Vault 4:51 No. 3 -- The $42 Billion Filing 5:33 No. 2 -- The StarCraft Cheat 6:17 Bonus Round 7:49 No. 1 -- Did AI Just Solve Math? 9:53 Outro Sources: OpenAI, Sharing AI progress in mathematics: https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-p... OpenAI math repo (papers + Lean proofs): https://github.com/openai/math The Verge on the math release: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... Hacker News thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=... Reactions via Techmeme: Alex Kontorovich (@alexkontorovich), Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz) Catalan's constant background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan... Alexa+ "lalala" bug, The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1005342... Alexa clip, r/alexa:   / alexa_said_lalalalala_for_10_minutes   Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad CEO: https://bostondynamics.com/news/bosto... Nieman Lab, forged cartoonist signatures: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/cha... Wikimedia Foundation statement: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/... OpenAI, How we will do better for Australia: https://openai.com/index/how-we-will-... The Guardian, NSW hack + review cost: https://www.theguardian.com/technolog... Insurers and rogue agents (FT, via The Decoder): https://the-decoder.com/insurers-brac... OpenAI DevDay 2026 recap: https://openai.com/index/devday-2026-... Tavus Griffin: https://www.tavus.io/griffin Mistral Large 4 "Le Chonk": https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/ Gemini 4 Argon, Google: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai... Argon benchmarks (Artificial Analysis, via The Decoder): https://the-decoder.com/google-gemini... Anthropic IPO prospectus (Reuters, via CNBC): https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/anthr... Dario Amodei's 2025 pay, The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... GPT-6 Astra StarCraft cheat, Kotaku: https://kotaku.com/openais-gpt-6-astr... StarSkirmish Bench (Kai McPheeters): https://starskirmish.com/bench/ Nano Banana 2.1, The Decoder: https://the-decoder.com/googles-new-i... DeepSeek's round (Bloomberg, via EconoTimes): https://www.econotimes.com/DeepSeek-S... Claude for Google Workspace, Anthropic: https://claude.com/resources/articles... Pentagon and Anthropic, BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5j... Fable's Oscar bid, Variety: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/ai... ChessFly (fruit fly connectome): https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/chessfly Gameplay: SSCAIT (StarCraft AI Tournament),    • SSCAIT Report 209: Monster and Stardust Sh...   . StarCraft: Brood War (c) Blizzard. All four tests were run by us, on our own machine. Like this video, subscribe for next week's top 10, and check out our other Extreme AI videos.