GPT-6 Astra Just Went CRITICAL...

OpenAI says its upcoming Astra model is the first to hit the "Critical" cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework. Now The Information reports Astra also uses a new technique, recurrent depth or "looped transformers," that lets the model reason in latent space instead of readable text. That's the same architecture the Chain of Thought Monitorability paper (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, METR) warned could break our last window into what these models are thinking. Ilya Sutskever is warning about rogue agents seizing neoclouds, AI 2027 predicted "neuralese" for March 2027, and the Hugging Face incident just showed why chain-of-thought logs matter.