# OpenAI: New model needs more safety measures before launch > Source: > Published: 2026-09-02 14:53:47+00:00 OpenAI’s forthcoming artificial intelligence model Astra is the company’s first to meet its “critical cybersecurity capability” threshold and will require stronger safeguards before release, the AI firm said Tuesday. In a blog post, OpenAI said Astra can find and exploit previously unknown security flaws across “many well-protected systems” without a human prompt to do so.…