AGI Check-In: The Benchmarks Broke. Science Didn’t.

GPT-6 Astra scored 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3. It also scored 62.7% — same model, same test, different evaluation harness. In the first week of September 2026 Anthropic, Google and OpenAI all refreshed their flagships inside seventy-two hours, OpenAI's president closed the Astra briefing with "welcome to the AGI era", and the scoreboard everyone reads quietly stopped being usable. So this check-in measures the AGI curve a different way: by what came back from outside the model's reach.

A 360-degree scan of what Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Mythos 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra actually produced — five open mathematical problems, 354 lab-confirmed protein binders, a new elevation map of a third of Venus, GPU kernels 2.5 times faster — each graded by how far it got past the lab's own say-so. Plus the honest half: why "dozens of conjectures cracked" is a base-rate story, why there is still no FDA-approved drug whose target and molecule were both found by AI, and why the most capable version of every flagship now sits behind a vetting desk. It ends with the five dials this show will re-read at every check-in.

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