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Open AI News September 1, 2026 positive

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

OpenAIAI / LLM
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
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