OpenAI's Astra Said to Autonomously Find and Exploit Security Vulnerabilities
VraserX · x · 2026-09-03
Blogger VraserX claims OpenAI's Astra can discover new security vulnerabilities and work out how to exploit them without a human guiding every step. He calls it a genuine threshold: frontier models are no longer just answering cybersecurity questions — they're doing cybersecurity. Note this is third-party commentary, not an official OpenAI announcement.
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