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OpenAI said on September 1 that Astra is the first model to meet its Critical cybersecurity threshold, capable of finding and exploiting unknown flaws across well-protected systems without step-by-step human direction. It restarted its paused frontier training run on August 28 and will release Astra soon, with advanced cyber access limited to a small alpha group that includes the US government. The same week Anthropic disclosed it had also paused training and evaluations after its own incidents, and both labs now call for a coordinated, verifiable pacing mechanism nobody has built.

Continue the story on unscarcity.ai:

• Anthropic Pulled the AI Alarm. Who Can Act on It?
• Human-in-the-Loop: Where AI Agents Must Stop

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