Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What changed A lab has put its own model at the top of its own risk scale. On 1 September 2026 OpenAI published a post titled Path to Astra stating that Astra "meets the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under our Preparedness Framework". As far as the public record goes, that is the first time a frontier lab has published a Critical self-rating on cyber for a model it intends to release. It ships anyway, with the top half gated. OpenAI says it will make the model available soon "while placing limits on access to its most advanced cybersecurity capabilities". Those capabilities go initially to a small testing group, with later expansion through Daybreak Blue for defensive work only. The pause from August is over. On 7 August 2026 OpenAI raised preliminary concerns that Astra…
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