OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

TechCrunch AISeptember 2, 2026en

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

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