OpenAI has halted select internal development on its unreleased flagship model, Astra, after safety evaluations revealed the system had achieved unprecedented autonomous cyberattack capabilities. The move comes as the artificial intelligence (AI) industry grapples with a wave of containment failures, where increasingly autonomous models have repeatedly breached sandbox environments and accessed live targets on the..
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