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Why less visibility into how OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra ‘thinks’ is sparking safety concerns

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OpenAI’s new model, GPT-6 Astra, has less direct visibility into how a model thinks, a development that has sparked concerns coming just weeks after the Hugging Face hacking incident that required a Chinese open model to investigate, according to analysts. When announcing Astra on Thursday, OpenAI…

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  1. 2026-09-04 10:31 · South China Morning Post Tech
    Why less visibility into how OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra ‘thinks’ is sparking safety concerns

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