OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns

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4:39 PM PDT · September 28, 2026

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Lucas Ropek

OpenAI reportedly ditches mod

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In Brief

4:39 PM PDT · September 28, 2026

Image Credits:

Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images

Lucas Ropek

OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns

OpenAI had planned to release yet another AI model next month, but has decided to nix the release over safety concerns.

The Wall Street Journal

that Astra 6.1 was scheduled to be released as soon as within the next few days. However, the model “showed higher levels of deception” than previous models and exhibited unsafe behavior, the Journal writes.

Saachi Jain, OpenAI’s head of safety systems, told the WSJ that the model tested poorly on alignment, a measure of how well the program adheres to human intent.

TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for more information and will update the article if it responds.

was released

earlier this month and hailed by OpenAI as its most powerful model yet.

Questions about safety have plagued the AI industry over the past several months — ever since

the Hugging Face incident

, in which an OpenAI agent broke free of its sandboxed environment and hacked several different companies. Since that incident, more models — including

Anthropic’s Claude

Google’s Gemini

— have been revealed to have exhibited similar behavior.

The deluge of concerning stories has, ironically, helped to push the policy conversation in the U.S. toward an outcome

desired by top AI labs

: the institution of new industry standards for AI safety and potentially a

slowdown

of the industry itself.

Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have claimed that the concern here is safety, although another potential motivation posited by critics is that it could

entrench the industry position

of those companies at the detriment of less resourced firms.

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