OpenAI launches new Astra model amid growing scrutiny over agents' safety

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 3 : OpenAI on Thursday unveiled a new artificial intelligence model it calls its best yet but cautioned that it also sometimes attempts to evade human monitoring, even as the company faces growing scrutiny after its agents breached other companies' systems.OpenAI has been grappling with the fallout after its agents broke free from a secure test in July and hacked into open-source platform Hugging Face’s systems, while attempting to cover its own tracks. The incident has sown safety concerns — similar ones occurred at rival Anthropic — as developers race to deploy increasingly advanced models.The concerns center on agentic AI, which is designed to perform tasks with little to no human intervention. The promise of agents running around the clock is central to investors' c