Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

Published "Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards" — announced that Astra is the company's first model to meet the Critical capability threshold for cybersecurity under the Preparedness Framework. Defines Critical as the ability (1) to discover and develop working zero-day exploits against hardened real-world systems without human intervention, or (2) to plan and execute novel attack strategies against hardened targets end to end when given only high-level goals. In response, it deployed stronger refusal of harmful requests (91.5% by its own measurement, vs 59% for the previous version), system-level cyber-misuse classifiers, real-time monitoring and blocking, and initial access restrictions, and explained that it delayed some development stages to strengthen safeguards