… Recent internal evaluations of an OpenAI model called Astra indicate that it offers “significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity,” according to the company. “These results, in addition to expert assessments, have led us to conclude last night that we cannot rule out critical cyber … …
Less than a week after touting the scientific achievements of Astra, its next “major” model, OpenAI says it’s “pausing internal activities” related to the model due to its powerful cybersecurity abilities. “Our latest internal evaluations of Astra, one of our upcoming models, over the past few days… …
… Emil Michael, the Defense Department’s chief technology officer, told CNBC on Friday that Anthropic is still a supply chain risk, but called its powerful security model, Mythos, a “separate national security moment,” adding that “we have to make sure that our networks are hardened up, because that …
… Following this, Andrew notified the gym software provider about the security vulnerability. …
… Meanwhile, Daybreak Red provides partners access to cybersecurity models that were especially trained for vulnerability research, security resting and exploit validation. …
… For anyone running security tooling at scale, that gap should make a huge difference. …
… For everyone else, the takeaway is simple: You have to prompt for security up front when you build, and again at the end, especially, any time the tool has access to data you care about. “A lot of security is contextual,” Cable says, so while it definitely doesn’t hurt to run a coding agent’s own r… …
… On the podcast, the OpenAI co-founder called it an “extremely sci-fi cyber incident… t his is the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally.” OpenAI researchers have paused training on that model while they work out how to keep their sandbox secure. …
… The AI Security Institute’s security team first realized that something was amiss on the morning of July 28, when its commercial security monitoring service flagged data leaving one of the testing systems through the Tor anonymity network. …
