OpenAI Slows Down 'Astra' - a Model That Might Be Too Good at Hacking
OpenAI has paused parts of the work on its upcoming model Astra. The reason - internal tests suggest it could cross the 'critical' threshold for cyber capabilities.
OpenAI has paused parts of the work on its upcoming model Astra. The reason - internal tests suggest it could cross the 'critical' threshold for cyber capabilities.
Together with Macquarie and GIC, Anthropic launches a platform called Theseus. Others fund the data centers, Anthropic rents them – and promises to cover the grid-upgrade costs in full.
OpenAI splits its security program Daybreak into two tiers and ships GPT-5.6-Cyber. It looks a lot like Anthropic's Mythos – and raises the question of who's really protecting whom here.
AMD is acquiring Taalas, a startup that casts trained models directly into silicon. A demo chip hit over 16,000 tokens per second. Here is why that matters for the inference cost of Claude and friends.
From September 1, Claude Sonnet 5 moves to full standard pricing: 50 percent more per token. Combined with the new tokenizer, the real cost jump for some workloads is even steeper.
The community keeps reporting that Opus 5 over-engineers tasks — planning and building more than you asked for. Oddly enough, a lower reasoning effort seems to help.
Two new releases: 2.1.225 brings spend limits through the gateway, a trust prompt for 'claude agents', and a stack of fixes around Auto Mode and Remote Control. 2.1.226 cleans up behind it.
Anthropic is making Auto Mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team on August 14. A classifier checks every tool call - and according to Anthropic's own study, it catches far more dangerous commands than we humans do.