emphasized that “Frontier models really like to cheat, and the reason they like to cheat is because often during training, there’s different types of pressure on them to work fast, or work efficiently.” They realize, he explained, is instead of actually doing a task, they can try to do something like looking up the answer online to solve the task faster.

They said a full technical postmortem is still in progress

Claiming that the frontier models are not doing the work as expected is bad. On other hand if a postmortem is not complete then it just implies that the root cause has not yet been figured out. Both are bad PR.