OpenAI Pulled 25% of Engineers to Hunt Bugs with Its Astra Model

Greg Brockman revealed OpenAI reassigned 25% of production engineers to run red-team scans with its internal model Astra until all P0 vulnerabilities it could find were fixed. David Sacks endorsed the approach, arguing AI-driven attacks demand AI-driven defense.

2026-09-19 ~ 2026-09-20 · 4 related posts

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