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OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns
Publisher description: A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
TechCrunch | Sep 28, 2026 | Lucas Ropek
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OpenAI had planned to release yet another AI model next month, but has decided to nix the release over safety concerns. Astra was released earlier this month and hailed by OpenAI as its most powerful model yet. Questions about safety have plagued the AI industry over the past several months — ever since the Hugging Face incident, in which an OpenAI agent broke free of its sandboxed environment and hacked several different companies.
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