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OpenAI is raising eyebrows in the AI safety community with its new Astra model, which uses a technique called recurrent depth. Unlike most reasoning systems that think in a straight line, Astra can operate outside that sequential structure — a capability that experts say introduces risks that are genuinely difficult to anticipate or contain.
On the infrastructure security front, researchers at Forescout have demonstrated that AI can now be used to port remote code execution exploits onto programmable logic controllers — the hardware backbone of power grids and industrial systems. The attacks still require significant human effort and hundreds of dollars in API costs, but nation-state actors like Russia's Sandworm, which hit Poland's power grid earlier this year, don't face those same constraints.
And in the world of finance, twenty-one major banks including Goldman Sachs and Bank of America are reportedly joining forces to launch a joint dollar-backed stablecoin by the first half of two thousand twenty-seven. A euro version is said to be next in line, signaling that traditional banking institutions are done watching the crypto space from the sidelines.
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