GPT-6 Astra Is Rolling Out: OpenAI’s First “Critical” Cyber-Capability Model Meets a Four-Platform Outage
OpenAI began the phased rollout of GPT-6 Astra, and the company's own system card says it plainly: Astra is the first OpenAI model to cross the "Critical" cybersecurity bar under the Preparedness Framework — meaning it can find undisclosed vulnerabilities and build working exploits against hardened systems without a human walking it through each step. In the same two-week window, all four major chat platforms went down together for the second time. The strongest attack surface in the industry shipped while its providers couldn't keep the lights on.