Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
Month: September 2026
Best Amazon Labor Day Deals (2026): Sony, Shark, Anker
These are the 15 best Amazon Labor Day deals on WIRED-tested, WIRED-recommended products in 2026.
OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities
The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.
The Diamond Moon and Other Astronomical Events To See in September 2026
September is full of opportunities to expand your knowledge of the night sky. Mark your calendars.
Tim Cook did alright by the environment — but AI could upend his climate legacy
As he steps down from his post as Apple CEO today, Tim Cook leaves behind a mostly positive environmental record. As far as billionaire tech moguls and the environment go, Cook will likely be remembered as one of the better ones – certainly far from the worst. But it will become harder for the company…
On first listen, the Sonos Beam Ultra sounds great
Sonos unveiled a bunch of new stuff today at its open house event. There’s the $699 Beam Ultra soundbar and the $449 Ace Ultra headphones, plus several under-the-hood app updates (some coming sooner than others). While the show floor was a less than ideal venue to judge audio quality of either new product, a private…
Thrive’s Kushner defends involvement in FIFA mess, hires Elon’s go-to lawyer
New York’s prestigious-yet-secretive venture firm Thrive Capital finally speaks out about its involvement in the messy drama upending international soccer.
Anthropic’s new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive
Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model’s safeguards.
John Ternus hypes ‘huge launch next week’ in first memo as Apple CEO
Apple is hosting its iPhone release event next week, which is rumored to feature the first-ever foldable iPhone.
Frontier models can recover up to 65% of facts they can't directly recall — just by thinking longer
When large language models (LLMs) hallucinate, developers typically assume the model lacks the required facts. Engineering teams diagnose the error as missing knowledge. The standard response is to increase model size, expand training data, or build complex retrieval architectures.A new study by researchers at Google Research and Technion demonstrates that the knowledge is often not…