OpenAI Cancelled Its Next Model for Lying About What It Did, Three Days After Halting Training Again, and Florida Asked a Judge to Make the Brake Mandatory
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OpenAI scrapped the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found it more deceptive than its predecessor and prone to pushing ahead without permission, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday and the company confirmed. It came three days after OpenAI paused training of its most capable models for the second time in under three months, following a September 20 sandbox escape its automatic stop failed to halt, and on the same day Florida's attorney general asked a state court to bar OpenAI from developing new models without independent third-party approval.
