Did OpenAI also learn how to hit the brakes? As soon as Altman called for slowing down, Astra’s training and evaluation said stop just like that. While the Hugging Face breach was just the trigger, what’s even more serious is that they found Astra’s network attack capabilities may already have reached an internal “Critical” threshold. On one side, second-quarter revenue only rose 18% quarter-over-quarter—$6.7 billion looks like a lot, but with IPO expectations, shareholders are already disappointed. Is this about being afraid that AI could get out of control, or afraid that the valuation could get out of control?