The urgency comes from what OpenAI disclosed on Monday. Its new Astra model can find previously unknown software flaws and turn them into working attacks without a human guiding each step, crossing a cybersecurity threshold that until recently belonged largely to expert hacking teams, as CoinDesk reported.
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Eligible organisations apply through the Daybreak website. OpenAI said it intends to extend the model to partner countries in the coming weeks.
The pledge comes amid a tepid stretch for crypto applications and network technologies. In August, a flaw in BTCPay Server, open-source software merchants use to accept bitcoin payments, exposed the credentials controlling Lightning nodes, and attackers drained funds before a fix went out.
Core Lightning, one of the main programs for running the Lightning network that moves small bitcoin payments cheaply, told operators last week to disconnect their machines after a wave of AI-generated vulnerability reports turned up several real flaws.
Separately, Coldcard, a hardware wallet that stores bitcoin offline, shipped new firmware after a $114 million theft, saying frontier AI models had helped catch bugs unrelated to the original problem.
The series of exploits culminated in more than three dozen companies, such as heavyweights Coinbase, Block, BitGo, Blockstream, ARK Invest, among others, publish an open letter to AI labs seeking early access to their strongest models for security work. The firms stated that AI labs were vetting who gets their strongest models while attackers obtained them regardless — leaving the people maintaining Bitcoin’s code with weaker tools than the people attacking it.
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