{"id":1027292,"date":"2026-08-08T08:08:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027292"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:17:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:47:29","slug":"openai-flags-possible-critical-cybersecurity-risk-in-upcoming-model-tightens-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/openai-flags-possible-critical-cybersecurity-risk-in-upcoming-model-tightens-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI flags possible critical cybersecurity risk in upcoming model, tightens controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI said on Friday it cannot rule out that its upcoming AI model, Astra, has &#8220;critical&#8221; cybersecurity capabilities, prompting the startup to pause some internal development and trigger safety protocols. <\/p>\n<p>Under OpenAI&#8217;s safety guidelines, a model reaches the &#8220;critical&#8221; threshold if it can autonomously identify and exploit severe, real-world software vulnerabilities, known \u200cas zero-day \u2060exploits, or \u2060execute complex cyberattacks against highly secure targets without human intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI said on Friday it cannot rule out that its upcoming AI model, Astra, has &#8220;critical&#8221; cybersecurity capabilities, prompting the startup to pause some internal development and trigger safety protocols. Under OpenAI&#8217;s safety guidelines, a model reaches the &#8220;critical&#8221; threshold if it can autonomously identify and exploit severe, real-world software vulnerabilities, known \u200cas zero-day \u2060exploits, or \u2060execute complex cyberattacks against highly secure targets without human intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027307,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027292\/revisions\/1027307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}