OpenAI's Astra Debuts as the First Model Under US Review — Aug 2

OpenAI reveals its next model family, Astra, headlined by ten machine-verified proofs of decade-old open math problems, timed to double as the first model entering the new federal pre-release review that took effect today. The EU AI Act's enforcement powers and California's AI-provenance law both activate the same day, and Palo Alto Networks discloses DeepSeek weaponized for autonomous cyberattacks that Claude and OpenAI's models had refused. ByteDance also quietly ships a 30-second native 4K video model, capping a news-dense day after two quiet ones from the usual aggregators.