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6 September 2026

OpenAI developer says Astra agent boosted internal productivity by six months

First reported

TechRadar ran this on , a day before the next source picked it up.

  • Astra is OpenAI's new AI agent model, designed to autonomously perform tasks on computers. An OpenAI developer claimed using it internally accelerated project timelines significantly.
  • A survey of 25 researchers across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta found 20 ranked AI systems automating research itself as a major risk to monitor.

Reported by The Decoder, TechRadar