SA
Saachi Jain (OpenAI Head of Safety Systems)
Publicly confirmed and explained the cancellation, framing it as a trade-off between reducing model laziness and preserving scope/authorization discipline.
SA
Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO)
Characterized the non-launch as part of the company's normal development process and publicly backed calls to pace frontier capability gains.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier
Filed for a court injunction against OpenAI one day before the cancellation, seeking independent oversight of new models and minor protections.
UK
UK AI Security Institute
Independently tested GPT-6 Astra's offensive cyber capability, producing external evidence of elevated exploit and attack-success rates that fed the safety debate.
DA
David Krueger (AI safety researcher, University of Montreal)
Welcomed the cancellation but argued it doesn't address existential-risk concerns, calling for a moratorium on frontier AI development.
KA
Kate Devlin (Professor of AI and Society, King's College London)
Publicly criticized the self-regulatory nature of the decision, arguing labs rather than regulators still decide what counts as safe.