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More than 200 companies have now signed to an August 27 letter about improving cyber defenses in the age of AI. Buried in it are three metrics every one of them endorse under its own logo: coverage, containment speed, and whether fixes work. The post The Collective Cyber Defense letter wrote your next vendor questionnaire…
Internal tests of Gemini 3.8 Flash show progress in an area where the company has lagged behind Anthropic and OpenAI. A release is expected this week.
OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.
Internal testing found the new model capable of executing complex cyberattacks with minimal human input, prompting added security layers.
After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into…
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.
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…
Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model’s safeguards.
A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029. It’s a hugely ambitious mission—if all goes well, the spacecraft could take up to 80,000 years to arrive at Alpha Centauri, which is 4.4 light-years away. And the…
