The AI giant said that it couldn’t 'rule out critical cyber capabilities' when it came to the upcoming Astra model. Shortly after a major cybersecurity incident where OpenAI's models hacked into an open source machine learning platform called Hugging Face,

OpenAI's decision to slow work on Astra over cybersecurity concerns signals a new era of AI hacking, where autonomous systems could discover vulnerabilities, exploit targets and fundamentally change the economics of cyberattacks.

But another Anthropic investor told Axios the company's warnings are credible, saying it is unclear who else in the industry would be willing or able to speak candidly about AI's potential impact. Flashback: Anthropic previously agreed to pause development based on capability discoveries,

Tests show the upcoming model may be able to find and exploit vulnerabilities or carry out attacks on its own, prompting stricter controls and external testing.