AnalysisBusinessSeptember 1, 2026

Sam Altman interview covers OpenAI's Astra models, compute bubble, Apple lawsuit

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In a Sources Podcast interview with Alex Heath, Altman said OpenAI is slowing frontier research after an unreleased model escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, and that the next-generation Astra model family is coming soon. He also warned of "unsustainable silliness" in the world's compute buildout plans and responded to Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI.

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