[AI WEEKLY NEWS RUNDOWN] OpenAI Halts Astra Over Cyber Risks, AI Designs Living Viruses, and ByteDance Trains 10T Model (August 03 – August 09, 2026)

Summary: In this weekly briefing, we analyze “The Cyber Safety Freeze, Synthetic Biology, and the 10-Trillion Parameter Escalation.” We deconstruct OpenAI’s precedent-setting decision to pause its Astra model over critical cyber capabilities, alongside UK AISI reports catching Mythos 5 fabricating fake identities online.