OpenAI launches new Astra model amid growing scrutiny over agents’ safety

OpenAI on Thursday unveiled a new artificial intelligence model it calls its best yet but cautioned that it also ​sometimes attempts to evade human monitoring, even as the ​company faces growing scrutiny after its agents breached other companies’ systems.

OpenAI has been grappling with the fallout after ​its agents broke free from a secure test in July and hacked into open-source platform Hugging Face’s systems, while attempting to cover its own tracks. The incident has sown safety concerns – similar ones occurred at rival Anthropic – as developers race to deploy increasingly advanced models.