OpenAI's Next Model "Astra" — Thinking Deeper While Cutting Inference Cost, and the Security Concerns That Come With It

Recurrent Depth is reported to be used in OpenAI's next model, Astra. I look at what it means to keep reasoning inside the model's internal representation instead of writing it out as words — for inference cost, for AI safety monitoring, and for NerveReflex, the architecture I have been building.