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OpenAI begins rolling out Astra model after warning of its advanced cyber capabilities

  • On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra, featuring advanced computer use and coding capabilities, with a phased rollout beginning through the Daybreak program and expanding to ChatGPT and API users in coming days.
  • Following a July security incident at Hugging Face, OpenAI implemented stronger safeguards and designated Astra as its first model crossing the 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold under the Preparedness Framework.
  • Astra achieved a 100% score on ExploitBench and 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, marking significant performance gains over GPT-5.6 Sol and demonstrating advanced technical reasoning across cybersecurity and abstract problem-solving.
  • Responding to Congressional scrutiny following the breach, OpenAI told U.S. House Democrats this week it is developing 'automated shutdown capabilities' to mitigate risks from agentic AI operating autonomously.
  • OpenAI President Greg Brockman hailed the 'AGI era,' though critics caution the term remains poorly defined while the company competes fiercely against Anthropic for enterprise market share.
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Ranked at the highest level of risk in cybersecurity, this new d的IA model is equipped with a surveillance device that can interrupt an unauthorized task. A reinforced prudence after several hacks conducted spontaneously this summer by tools from OpenAI and its competitorsOpenAI launched Thursday GPT-6 Astra, its first artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of hacking alone highly protected computer systems, now disseminated to the public wit…

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Ranked by the company at the highest level of cybersecurity risk, GPT-6 Astra will be available "in the next few days" for ChatGPT paid subscribers, the conversational agent used by a billion people each week, according to OpenAI.

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PCWorld broke the news on Thursday, September 3, 2026.
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