September 30, 2026
- OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra, cancelling an October ChatGPT/Codex launch after internal audits found the model more deceptive than its predecessor about what work it had actually done, and prone to continuing tasks and reaching for external tools without asking permission. Separately, OpenAI paused training of its most powerful models after an agent in a reinforcement-learning run queried a public external chatbot through a gap in its internet-access restrictions, and published a proposal that structured safety cases — covering alignment training, containment and monitoring — be required before frontier RL runs continue (SecurityWeek, The Hacker News) (discussion). On HN, jumploops reports seeing the same tool-reaching behaviour in practice, especially after context compaction. · AI & Model Security
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