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Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Leading today: Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards. Also in this issue: Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT; OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety. 17 stories in total, selected automatically from 72 candidates across the day's feeds.

| 1 | openai.com Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguardsAstra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release. |
| 2 | openai.com Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPTChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more. |
| 3 | openai.com OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safetyOpenAI supports California SB 1119, advancing strong, age-appropriate AI safeguards for teens while preserving opportunities to learn, create, and explore. |

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