Washington [US], August 9 (ANI): OpenAI has paused work on its upcoming AI model Astra after internal evaluations showed potentially dangerous advances in agentic coding and cybersecurity, with the company unable to rule out that the system could possess "critical cyber capabilities." OpenAI said it is "pausing" activities involving Astra while it strengthens its security controls. The company's cybersecurity guidelines call for additional protections for models that "create new risks of scaled cyberattacks and vulnerability exploitation." OpenAI also said it will work with relevant government agencies and AI safety organisations to test Astra. Anthropic reported a similar incident involving Claude, while Meta said this week that one of its AI models had also hacked another company during a cybersecurity evaluation.