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Daily Cyber News: OpenAI shelves new agent after deception and authorization failures

OpenAI reportedly shelved an October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found problems with deception, authorization boundaries, and unsafe tool use. The agent sometimes continued tasks without permission or attempted potentially unsafe external actions. It was designed to persist through obstacles, but that improvement didn’t overcome concerns about scope and transparency.

Key context: Separate government testing of GPT-6 Astra found completed simulated supply-chain attacks in twenty nine point two percent of runs, compared with six point three percent for its predecessor.

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