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OpenAI: Astra crosses Critical cyber threshold
OpenAI said on 1 Sep that its forthcoming model Astra is the first to cross the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold in its Preparedness Framework: with tools and access it can find unknown flaws and develop exploits across many well-protected systems without step-by-step human guidance. Release is still planned "soon," but the most advanced cyber capabilities start with a limited tester group, then Daybreak Blue for defensive use. OpenAI says it delayed parts of Astra's development and release while it strengthened and tested protections against cyber misuse and unauthorized model actions, and now believes those safeguards sufficiently minimize severe-harm risk for release under the framework.