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The AI giant said that it couldn’t ‘rule out critical cyber capabilities’ when it came to the upcoming Astra model.

OpenAI has acquired the presentation technology startup NextSlide, integrating the company’s team into the development of ChatGPT.

OpenAI’s internal evaluation of its upcoming model, Astra, found significant advances in agentic coding and cybersecurity, leading the company to conclude that it cannot rule out the model reaching the critical capability level for cybersecurity under its Preparedness Framework.

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Anyone who has ever scrambled to finish a slide deck before a meeting knows the pain this product targets. NextSlide handles that grunt work.

Whether the acquisition was primarily a talent-absorption acqui-hire vs a product bet

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into finished editable presentations. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the team has moved onto ChatGPT.

An internal review has raised questions about how far advanced AI systems can go when testing moves beyond controlled environments.

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Sam Altman and the other leaders at OpenAI have reportedly notified the company’s staff at an all-hands meeting, details of which were leaked to the Wall Street Journal, that an exciting new strategy is coming: focus on business and productivity to the exclusion of all else.