OpenAI warns about how good Astra model is at cracking cybersecurity, releases it anyway because it took 'years of research and big bets'
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When the model vendor says its new flagship is strong at breaking cybersecurity and ships it anyway, assume offensive capability is now broadly democratized. CISOs need to treat Astra-class models as baseline attacker tools and accelerate red-teaming, not just deploy more AI for defense.
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