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The new security measures come after commercial data was used to track and target U.S. forces in the Middle East.

Researchers and industry leaders have called for a slowdown in the technology’s development, leading Trump to call the concerns a “hoax.”

An X post shares an image claiming OpenAI canceled an October GPT-6.1 Astra release. OpenAI's public materials confirm GPT-6 Astra, not a scheduled 6.1.

The heads of OpenAI and rival Anthropic have both indicated recently that top AI labs should slow the pace of model development.

President Donald Trump’s call to leave AI “exactly where it is” contrasts even with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

OpenAI said it has chosen not to release its new GPT-6.1 Astra model due to concerns about safety, as industry leaders warn of the risks posed by ever-more-powerful AI technology.

GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behaviour and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe

The firm also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems.

OpenAI will not go public until it can “make confident safety decisions,” according to chief executive Sam Altman, as the company faces a new lawsuit over its tools hacking a third party. Altman said it was “bad for the world if OpenAI waits too long to go public” but that the $852 billion start-up would not “barrel all guns blazing towards an IPO” at a time when AI was rapidly advancing in capabilities. “We’re going to prioritize the mission and safety and making sure that we can very confidently scale to the next stage of AI without people debating what percentage chance we’re going to do all these bad things in the world,” Altman told reporters at the company’s annual developer day on Tuesday. Read full article Comments