OpenAI has voluntarily slowed the research and development of Astra, an unreleased next-generation large model, after internal assessments found its cybersecurity capabilities may be so strong it can no longer be treated as an ordinary AI product. OpenAI stated bluntly: "We cannot rule out the risk that Astra possesses critical cyberattack capabilities." To prevent potential risks, OpenAI will comprehensively expand testing and security protection for Astra and actively slow down its R&D speed until new security protection measures are fully in place. Sam Altman later explained that Astra is a "powerful model" and OpenAI still hopes to eventually make it accessible to all users, but it is expected to take "a little more time" to resolve the security issues. This strict standard is based on the "Preparedness framework" that OpenAI first released back in 2023. At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference, OpenAI's technician Michael Dalton publicly acknowledged that OpenAI has begun to "consciously slow down research to enhance safety". Measures include a completely isolated test environment and full-coverage universal monitoring for all Agentic applications without any blind spots. According to sources from White House officials in the United States, OpenAI "voluntarily" notified the US government of its plan to delay the release.