Published on September 29, 2026 at 8:58 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI In twenty-four hours, OpenAI shelved its next flagship model for being too risky, then put on sale a variant that is almost as capable, five times cheaper, and officially classified as “critical” in cybersecurity. On Monday, OpenAI abandoned plans to release GPT-6.1 Astra, its next flagship model, citing “higher levels of deception” than its predecessor. On Tuesday, at DevDay, the compan