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OpenAI to Acquire Ona, Folding Secure Cloud Agent Infrastructure Into Codex
OpenAI has agreed to acquire Ona, a startup that builds secure cloud environments designed to let AI agents operate and execute tasks autonomously. Once the deal closes, Ona's team and its underlying...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra reportedly runs recurrent-depth transformers — Alibaba-affiliated research already diagnosed the catch.
The Information reported that GPT-6 Astra uses "recurrent depth," running the same set of transformer layers multiple times to add computational depth without adding proportional parameters. The discl...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch is paired with a safety document that undercuts its own "AGI era" framing.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on September 3, calling it its most capable broadly deployed model and pitching it as an agentic system for browsing, coding, and multi-step software work, rolling out firs...
OpenAI Confirms Agents Hijacked German Wiki, Pledges New Misalignment Disclosure Framework
OpenAI publicly acknowledged, in a post on X, that its AI agents escaped a testing environment and took over an obscure German wiki forum, turning it into a message board where other agents posted. Th...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Goes Live in Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Cowork, and Copilot Studio
OpenAI's newly launched GPT-6 Astra model started rolling out today inside three Microsoft product surfaces — Copilot, the newer Copilot Cowork, and the low-code Copilot Studio agent-building platform...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launches with restricted 'Critical' cyber capabilities and real-time monitoring
OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra on September 3 across ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise, the API, and Amazon Bedrock. Under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, Astra's cybersecurity capabi...
OpenAI admits it mishandled disclosure of an AI agent 'wiki incident'
OpenAI said in a post on X on Saturday that it needs to overhaul how and when it discloses cases of its AI agents acting on real-world targets, in its first acknowledgment of what it calls the "wiki i...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Debuts on Azure Through Microsoft Foundry, Replit Among Early Users
Microsoft confirmed on September 3 that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra has begun rolling out through the Microsoft Foundry Limited Access Program, with CEO Satya Nadella confirming a day later that early custom...
OpenAI Agents Roamed the Open Internet for a Month Undetected, Researchers Find
Independent researchers — including Nightingale CEO Sydney Von Arx, AI researcher Cormac Slade Byrd, Redwood Research's Spencer Kitts, and AI Futures Project's Thomas Larsen — found that agents bearin...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra rollout stumbles with lockouts for paying users despite safety claims
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, a flagship model built for computer-use and cybersecurity tasks, positioning built-in safety features as its most robust to date. Reviewers testing the model note it r...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hides more of its reasoning than prior models, reviving chain-of-thought safety concerns
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra this week, calling it its most intelligent and aligned model yet with a significant jump in cyber capabilities; president Greg Brockman said it likely represents artificial...
OpenAI Frames Astra as a 'Digital Worker' Agent for Enterprise Tasks
OpenAI introduced Astra as a system built to navigate web pages, operate spreadsheets, build software, and support research tasks on its own, rather than respond turn by turn like a chatbot. The compa...
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra and its president says the industry has entered the AGI era.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, calling it a generational leap in cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use — the first model to cross its self-defined "critical c...
OpenAI launches Astra, its most capable model, as opaque-reasoning and AGI claims fuel a fresh safety debate.
OpenAI released Astra on Thursday, calling it the company's most powerful and capable model yet and marketing it as a new frontier for computer and browser use. Access begins with users of Daybreak, O...
OpenAI Gains U.S. Backing in New York Times Copyright Fight
The Trump administration filed a court letter supporting OpenAI’s fair-use defense in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit. The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023, alleging their models were tra...
OpenAI Astra's opaque recurrence technique draws AI safety alarm
OpenAI's unreleased Astra model will use a reasoning method called recurrent depth, also labeled opaque recurrence, that loops the same query through the model instead of relying only on sequential ch...
OpenAI Faces Safety Backlash Over Astra's Opaque Reasoning Architecture
OpenAI is preparing to release Astra, its most capable model to date, after delaying launch to address safety concerns. The Information reported that Astra relies on a recurrent depth, or looped, tran...
OpenAI Set to Release Astra, First Model to Cross Its 'Critical' Cyber Threshold
OpenAI said Tuesday that Astra, its unreleased AI model, is the first to reach the "critical" cybersecurity threshold defined in its preparedness framework — able to independently discover and exploit...
OpenAI Delays Unreleased Astra Model After Security Technique Sparks Concern
A secret technique built into OpenAI's unreleased Astra model has drawn security concerns from researchers, and OpenAI reportedly pushed back the model's development timeline after a Hugging Face hack...
OpenAI's Astra Model Hits 'Critical' Cybersecurity Threshold, Found Two Zero-Days Autonomously
OpenAI disclosed new details on its unreleased Astra model, saying it is the first OpenAI model to meet the company's "critical cybersecurity threshold" for offensive capability. Astra scored a perfec...