Summary
Anthropic said it currently has no plan to release Model 2 externally, despite using it internally for coding and agentic work. Axios also reported that OpenAI is slowing its upcoming Astra release because it cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities.
Why it matters
Release timing is becoming a safety control rather than only a product or infrastructure decision. If multiple leading labs adopt this approach, cyber capability evaluations could become a de facto gate for frontier deployment.
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