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OpenAI will provide Ukraine's government with free access to its Daybreak AI cyber defence system, aimed at protecting civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and power plants from cyber-attacks. The deal also gives Ukraine access to OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol model, and comes after CERT-UA recorded nearly 6,000 cyber-attacks against the country in 2025.
Z.ai's newly released GLM 5.3-flash is an open-weight AI model cheap enough to run on roughly $5,000-$15,000 of hardware, and third parties have already stripped its safety refusals via 'abliteration,' producing versions that comply with requests for hacking and other harmful content. The author frames this as a deadline pressuring security initiatives like Project Glasswing and Daybreak, which use fast frontier AI to find and patch software vulnerabilities before dangerous capabilities become widely accessible.
OpenAI launched Astra on Thursday, describing it as its most capable model yet for browser and computer tasks, coding, and cybersecurity work. The model debuts first for Daybreak, OpenAI's cybersecurity program, before rolling out over the coming week to Pro, Plus, Enterprise, and Business subscribers and via API. OpenAI executives emphasized both Astra's raw capability and new alignment safeguards meant to keep it under user control.
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new flagship model the company describes as a major leap in cybersecurity, coding, and agentic task performance. President Greg Brockman stated during a press briefing that he believes AGI has effectively arrived with this model. The rollout begins with enterprise cybersecurity customers today, expanding to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users over the coming days, plus API and AWS access.
OpenAI says its upcoming Astra model is the first to reach the company's internal threshold for 'critical' cybersecurity risk, meaning it can independently discover and exploit unknown software vulnerabilities. The firm paused training for several weeks to add safety controls before resuming work, and plans a broad public release soon while limiting the model's advanced cyber capabilities to select partners in its Daybreak Blue early-access program.