Powerful AI, Cyberthreats, and Industry Upheaval Define This Week in Tech - TechRepublic
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As covered in the Daily Tech Insider newsletter this week, AI grew more powerful, more embedded, and harder to contain. Frontier models crossed new capability thresholds, workplaces and government agencies widened deployment, and cybercriminals found fresh ways to exploit automated tools. Meanwhile, lawsuits, leadership changes, rising hardware costs, and a disappearing labor platform showed how quickly the industry’s ground is shifting.
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Frontier AI models push capability and safety boundaries
OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model to date, promising major advances in software engineering, research, and desk work. Astra is also the first model OpenAI has designated at its “Critical” cybersecurity capability threshold. Its restricted capabilities can discover and weaponize vulnerabilities, while the model’s...
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