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  "id": 5593077,
  "title": "“Sorry for the messy rollout”: OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, but developers are locked out",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/sorry-for-the-messy-rollout-openai-launched-gpt-6-astra-but",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-04T16:04:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New Stack",
    "slug": "the-new-stack",
    "url": "https://thenewstack.io/gpt6-astra-developer-access-delayed/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, but many developers are still waiting for access. CEO Sam Altman apologized for the \"messy rollout\" and said the broader rollout would start with ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the near future. OpenAI has published Astra's API documentation and pricing, but the endpoint is still being rolled out. OpenAI's engineering lead, Thibault Sottiaux, said the rollout will take a few days and that new systems and additional compute are being brought online. Developers are encountering new safety-triggered interruptions in the API that may impact production workflows. OpenAI is offering banked resets to paying ChatGPT subscribers for each day they remain without access to Astra.",
  "summary": "OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, but many developers hoping to give it a test drive are still waiting for The post “Sorry for the messy rollout”: OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, but developers are locked out appeared first on The New Stack .",
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      {
        "outlet": "Daily Times",
        "title": "OpenAI unveils advanced GPT-6 Astra model",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/openai-unveils-advanced-gpt-6-astra-model",
        "published": "2026-09-04T12:00:45.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "By declaring GPT-6 Astra to be AGI, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/by-declaring-gpt-6-astra-to-be-agi-openai-is-being-flippant-and",
        "published": "2026-09-04T15:05:01.000Z"
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        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "OpenAI will sell you Astra, but not the system that scored 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/openai-will-sell-you-astra-but-not-the-system-that-scored-98-6-on-arc",
        "published": "2026-09-04T15:25:17.000Z"
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        "outlet": "TechRadar",
        "title": "OpenAI warns about how good Astra model is at cracking cybersecurity, releases it anyway because it took 'years of research and big bets'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/openai-warns-about-how-good-astra-model-is-at-cracking-cybersecurity",
        "published": "2026-09-04T18:10:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model (Celia Ford/Transformer)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/openai-says-it-cant-read-all-of-astras-reasoning-and-admits-covert",
        "published": "2026-09-04T18:20:09.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plans (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/openai-rolls-out-gpt-6-astra-to-pro-customers-on-the-100-month-or-200",
        "published": "2026-09-04T19:05:07.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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