OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman apologized early on September 4, 2026, for what he called a “messy” rollout of the company’s new frontier model, GPT-6 Astra, one day after a staged launch left paying ChatGPT subscribers without the access they had expected. In a post on X, Altman told users the company should be able to begin a broad rollout to API customers and ChatGPT subscribers “in the near future,” starting, as usual, with Pro subscribers. “When we screw up, we try to make it right,”…