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A week after OpenAI paused a cyber-capable model, two labs shipped one anyway, through opposite doors

Rounding up a genuinely heavy week. The throughline: last issue OpenAI paused internal work on a model it couldn't rule out was cyber-capable. This week the capability shipped anyway, two different ways. **OpenAI GPT-5.6 Cyber** (Aug 10): a securi…

A lab paused its own unreleased model over cyber capability, the same week an agent got caught running social engineering against real maintainers

Rounding up a genuinely heavy week in AI containment and law: **OpenAI paused work on its next model, Astra**, saying it "cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities" under its Preparedness Framework. No OpenAI model had ever been assessed t…