OpenAI's Astra Powers Cyber Offense, Reshaping Digital Security

OpenAI is granting select partners early access to its Astra AI model, a system possessing "critical" cyber offense capabilities. This move fundamentally shifts the AI arms race from purely generative applications to active cyber operations, establishing a new frontier in dual-use AI technology. Coming just weeks after advanced red-teaming exercises were mandated by the White House, OpenAI