OpenAI Pulls the Brakes on GPT-6.1 Astra Before It Could Go Rogue
In a move that is as rare as it is telling, OpenAI has decided not to release GPT-6.1 Astra, a powerful agentic AI model, because it simply wasn’t safe enough. The decision lands amid a growing industry-wide reckoning over how much autonomy we should hand to machines. Something is shifting inside the world’s most watched AI company.







