Sep 3 2026

OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra, the first publicly released model past a lab's Critical cyber threshold

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Rollout began September 3rd with Daybreak enterprise customers; ChatGPT paid tiers the next day in restricted form, and AWS after. 1.05M-token context; cyber capabilities gated. The concedes its is harder to monitor than its predecessors'.

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