[OpenAI: Astra May Have Reached 'Critical' Network Capability Threshold, Not Involved in Recent Hugging Face Security Incident] BlockBeats News, August 8 — OpenAI released its latest blog post stating that internal testing shows the upcoming Astra model has made significant progress in proxy coding and cybersecurity. After evaluation based on its 'Preparedness Framework,' OpenAI indicated that it cannot rule out the possibility that the model has reached the 'critical' network capability threshold. Furthermore, OpenAI explicitly clarified in the article that the Astra model was not involved in the recent Hugging Face security incident and will continue conducting benchmark tests under the Preparedness Framework to manage cutting-edge network capabilities. The definition of 'critical' capability is as follows: a model can, without human intervention, discover and exploit all severe-level functional zero-day vulnerabilities in a large number of real-world hardened critical systems; or independently design and execute novel end-to-end cyberattack strategies against hardened targets based solely on high-level objectives. Previous models (such as GPT-5.6-Sol) were only assessed as 'high' level. [Original Link]