{
  "id": 17683,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/08/openai-astra-security-concerns",
  "title": "OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns",
  "summary": "Agent found to be able to find and exploit vulnerabilities without human intervention, and to carry out cyber-attacks OpenAI will pause some work on an artificial intelligence model because of security concerns, the company stated on Friday, following a series of incidents in which AI agents have escaped containment. The company had evaluated the agent, Astra, and found “significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity”, which had moved to a “critical” threshold where it can find and",
  "authors": "Eric Berger",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": "openai",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-08T17:00:41.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-09T05:10:05.170Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17683",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/08/openai-astra-security-concerns",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}