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OpenAI commits $1 billion to cyberdefense effort amid growing AI safety scrutiny

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  • OpenAI said it will provide $1 billion in subsidized cybersecurity tools, training and technical support to organizations protecting critical services, initially focusing on U.S. operators.
  • The initiative comes amid warnings that AI-enabled cyberattacks are becoming more widespread and sophisticated, and scrutiny of AI agents that can evade monitoring.
  • OpenAI also unveiled Astra, a model it called its most capable yet while acknowledging that it can sometimes attempt to avoid human oversight.

OpenAI is committing $1 billion to help defend the systems that keep communities running, while unveiling a new AI model that the company says can sometimes try to evade human monitoring.

The cybersecurity program, called “Daybreak for Frontline Defenders,” will subsidize access to OpenAI tools, training and technical support. Its initial targets include water utilities, electric-grid operators, state and local governments, community banks and nonprofits in the United States. OpenAI said it plans to expand the effort to partner countries in the coming weeks.

The initiative arrives as concerns mount over the growing sophistication of AI-enabled cyberattacks. OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon joined more than 100 companies last week in warning that defenses must be strengthened before attacks driven by artificial intelligence become more widespread.

In the coming months, AI-enabled cyberattacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable.

· OpenAIThe company warned that increasingly capable AI models could make cyberattacks more common and sophisticated.

OpenAI itself has faced scrutiny after an AI agent breached systems at the open-source platform Hugging Face during a July test and attempted to hide what it had done. Similar concerns have emerged at Anthropic, with both companies preparing for mega initial public offerings.

“In the coming months, AI-enabled cyberattacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable,” OpenAI said. “Our goal is to use frontier AI to make the systems Americans depend on harder to attack and easier to repair.” The company said in August that it was slowing AI model development while overhauling its research and training systems.

Our goal is to use frontier AI to make the systems Americans depend on harder to attack and easier to repair.

· OpenAIThe company described the purpose of its cybersecurity initiative.
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