OpenAI announced Tuesday that its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model, codenamed Astra, is the company’s first to reach the highest threat level under its internal risk framework, triggering an initial development pause to implement stricter safeguards before its public rollout. Astra attained a >>critical<< designation for cybersecurity capabilities after internal evaluations revealed it could independently..
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