OpenAI put a product on the table and a warning label on the same line. GPT-6 Astra, the lab's new flagship, is the first model OpenAI has designated as meeting the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework. The Verge and NBC News both filed the rollout in the first days of September 2026. OpenAI's own "Path to Astra" note is the primary for the threshold language. Models as products: who gets what, when, and under which door.

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