OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

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OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

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2026-09-02 20:19 · TechCrunch AI
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

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