The White House has finalized a voluntary framework for reviewing advanced AI models before release, but the testing criteria are staying private. That turns frontier model launches into a new kind of prerelease security review, with open-weight models and outside researchers still sitting largely outside the process.
OpenAI now says Astra is its first model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold. The model is expected soon, but its most advanced cyber abilities will sit behind Daybreak access, added monitoring, and stricter release controls.