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Astra shipped September 3, 2026; Pachocki's slowdown essay came three days later. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: GPT-6 Astra Hits Critical Cyber Threshold · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:1521d77bfbbdba27f0ce4782570ab214d9b883b1b63eed5fb7934cc82d3430e6

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, the first model it has rated Critical for cybersecurity. Three days later, chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wrote that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at full speed.