OpenAI Astra for Law: GPT-6 Targets Big Law Firms
Update, Sept. 18 Update, Sept. 18: The same week OpenAI launched Trusted Access — its promise that firm data won't train models or face human review — the company got a reminder of why law firms care about that promise. The Wall Street Journal reported September 18 that security researchers used Anthropic's Claude to exploit a Discourse image-processing flaw and access OpenAI's forums, stealing authentication tokens that also worked on ChatGPT — some belonging to OpenAI employees — and reaching its Monorepo code repository. OpenAI says both issues are resolved; president Greg Brockman disclosed the company moved 25% of its production engineers onto defensive work and "found a number of serious issues and we fixed them." For firms weighing Astra for Law, OpenAI's own week is a live case study in the governance work Latham & Watkins is helping design. On the same Thursday that newly unsealed court filings showed OpenAI executives privately describing th...