Frontier labs race to interpret their own models after OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a system its president says may mark the start of the AGI era, even as lab leaders and safety researchers say they still cannot fully explain how frontier models think or what they will do when they work together. The contradiction is now structural: the same companies racing to ship more capable agents have stood up entire teams whose job is to reverse-engineer creations no one wrote line by line.