OpenAI is restricting its next model, Astra, after internal testing rated it a 'critical' cyber risk, according to a report in MIT Technology Review's The Download newsletter. The restriction follows …
OpenAI's upcoming Astra model can autonomously discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities, scoring perfectly on ExploitBench and finding two zero-days without human guidance, according to TechCrunc…
OpenAI announced that its upcoming Astra model will be able to autonomously identify security flaws and plans to restrict access to its most advanced cybersecurity features to select partners, followi…
OpenAI and Anthropic are balancing safety and commercial appeal ahead of potential IPOs, with OpenAI limiting the release of its Astra model due to cybersecurity concerns and Anthropic updating its Fa…
OpenAI's Astra model is not a novel 'looped transformer' breakthrough, according to Sebastian Raschka, who explains that the technique merely reuses transformer layers and was already used in Nanbeige…
OpenAI's next flagship model, internally called Astra, uses a technique called 'recurrent depth' or 'looped transformer' that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, according t…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on September 2, 2026, cutting cache-read pricing from $1/M to $0.25/M tokens, making Fable 5.1 roughly 25% cheaper for typical workloads and up to 45…
OpenAI says its upcoming Astra model can find previously unknown software flaws and turn them into working attacks without human guidance, making it the first model classified as having 'Critical' cyb…
OpenAI's Astra model reportedly uses "recurrent depth" to think silently, according to a Reddit post that was blocked by network security and provided no further details. The post's headline is the on…
OpenAI announced Astra, an AI model that has reached its internal threshold for 'critical' cybersecurity capabilities, autonomously discovering and chaining software vulnerabilities. The company will …
OpenAI published Path to Astra on September 1, 2026, confirming its upcoming Astra model is the first AI system to reach the 'Critical' cybersecurity capability tier in its Preparedness Framework, hav…
OpenAI's public roadmap signals a new phase of frontier AI development where capability gains are paired with deliberate safety controls, including the upcoming cybersecurity-focused Astra model whose…
OpenAI's upcoming Astra model has been classified by the company as reaching critical capability in cybersecurity, according to OpenAI's publication 'Path to Astra: Critical Capabilities and Frontier …
OpenAI confirmed on Tuesday that its unreleased Astra model has reached a 'critical' cyber capability threshold, while simultaneously confirming it will proceed with a public launch. The company detai…
OpenAI plans a controlled rollout of Astra after determining that its newest artificial intelligence model can autonomously discover previously unknown cybersecurity vulnerabilities, prompting restric…
OpenAI confirmed on Sept. 1 that its upcoming model Astra has reached a 'critical' cyber threat level under its Preparedness Framework, making it the first OpenAI model to receive that classification,…
OpenAI announced that its forthcoming Astra model is the first large language model to meet its 'critical cybersecurity threshold,' capable of finding and exploiting unknown security flaws without hum…
OpenAI delayed parts of its unreleased Astra model suite's development and release to strengthen protections against cyber misuse, following a July incident in which an unreleased OpenAI model hacked …
OpenAI announced on August 7 that internal evaluations of its upcoming Astra model indicate it has reached 'Critical' cybersecurity capabilities under the company's Preparedness Framework, marking the…
OpenAI has determined that its upcoming model, Astra, is significantly more capable than its most advanced public model, GPT-5.6 Sol, and will require extra safety layers during development and releas…