SITUATION EXPLAINED: Astra is the first model OpenAI has designated Critical for cybersecurity. • It can find previously unknown security flaws and develop ways to exploit them across many well-protected systems without a person guiding each step • On an internal benchmark of 20 recently disclosed high-severity V8 vulnerabilities, Astra at 10,000 output tokens substantially outperforms Sol at 140,000 • In expert-led assessments it built a full browser compromise chain that escaped the sandbox…