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PublishedSeptember 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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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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