OpenAI has told Axios this morning they are slowing down internal development of Astra, saying 'we cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities'. They also said they will be scaling up safety testing and security, as well as pausing some internal activities. My personal read on this as an extremely suspicious man is that Astra does not need any more development, because it is finished and ready to go. I think what probably happened is Mr Altman showed Astra off to the administration and they…