Is GPT-5.1 Really an Upgrade? But Models Can Auto-Hack Govts, so … there’s that

A lot just got released in the last 36 hours, and it will all affect hundreds of millions of people. 10 details you would miss if you just read the headlines, from GPT 5.1 regressions, to how Claude hacked Govt Agencies, to SIMA 2, and Musical Turing Tests. https://assemblyai.com/aiexplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:56 - GPT 5.1 Smarter? 01:47 - Some Regressions 03:22 - Sycophancy? 05:22 - Claude Auto-Hacking 06:16 - Jailbreaking through Granularity 08:22 - This Will be Re-used 09:30 - Hallucinating Hacker 09:57 - Surprisingly Neutral Tone 12:18 - SIMA 2 14:10 - Alpha Parallels 17:…