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Agentic AI's growing cyber-capability problem
OpenAI paused Astra on fears it can hack hardened systems unaided
OpenAI paused internal work on Astra, its in-development model, after evaluations concluded the company cannot rule out 'critical cyber capabilities' under its Preparedness Framework. The full threshold describes a model that finds zero-day exploits in hardened systems without human intervention.
2026-08-13