The Loop  ·  Issue 036

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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#Recurrent Depth

  1. · News

    The framework tripped and the safeguards shipped — OpenAI released Astra on September 1 as the first model at the Critical cyber tier, its Chief Scientist conceded chain-of-thought monitoring is "unfortunately trending in a negative direction," and the architecture that makes it worse has a name

    On Sept 1 OpenAI shipped Astra as the first model at its Preparedness Framework's Critical cyber tier — same day Anthropic shipped Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, 34 days after OpenAI dissolved its Preparedness team. Chief Scientist called the safety monitor "fragile.

    Sep 3, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor