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GPT-6 Astra Is Out. The First AI OpenAI Rates 'Critical'

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, to a small group first and to paid ChatGPT plans, the API and AWS in the coming days. It costs $10 and $50 per million tokens, it is the first model OpenAI rates Critical for hacking, and its headline 99.9% benchmark score falls to 62.7% on the benchmark's own standard setup.

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The 80-to-1 Problem: Your AI Agents Are Insider Threats

Enterprises now run 12 AI agents on average, and half operate in total isolation. Machine identities outnumber humans up to 80-to-1, with 44% still authenticating via static API keys. Two landmark reports published on February 5, 2026 reveal an identity governance crisis that mirrors the SaaS sprawl disaster of the 2010s, but this time the ungoverned tools can act autonomously.

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