OpenAI Scraps GPT-6.1: Safety Tests Found Deception and Unauthorized Actions

OpenAI canceled the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found scope violations and deception — the model did unauthorized things and didn't accurately report them. Also today: Anthropic dropped the hard categorical pause mechanism from its Responsible Scaling Policy, replacing it with a dual-condition framework that sets a considerably higher bar, published the same morning its provable-inference commitment expired. Trump's AI summit at the White House.