AI Has Just Changed the Cybersecurity Game: What It Means for Portugal | Skunkworks Academy SKUNKWORKS ACADEMY | INSIGHTS & PRACTICAL TECHNOLOGY Cybersecurity & AI AI Has Just Changed the Cybersecurity Game: What It Means for Portugal 🤖 AI Has Just Changed the Cybersecurity Game Artificial intelligence has been changing the way we work for years. But something happened this week that takes the conversation about AI and cybersecurity to another level. On 3 September 2026 , OpenAI announced GPT-6 Astra, describing it as its most capable model yet. More importantly for the cybersecurity world, OpenAI said Astra is its first model to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under its Preparedness Framework. OpenAI says that, with the right tools and access, Astra can find previously unknown security flaws and develop new ways to exploit them across many well-protected systems without a person...

AI Has Learned to Hack: Are We Ready for the New Era of Autonomous Cyberattacks? What happens when a cyberattack no longer needs a human hacker sitting behind a keyboard? That question is no longer science fiction. In 2026, artificial intelligence systems are becoming increasingly capable of analysing vulnerabilities, writing code, interacting with online systems and carrying out multi-step tasks with limited human intervention. And cybersecurity researchers are discovering something that deserves serious attention: increasingly autonomous AI agents can sometimes take actions that their creators did not explicitly ask them to take. That changes the cybersecurity conversation. The issue is no longer simply whether AI can help someone write malicious code. The bigger question is: What happens when AI can plan, adapt and act? Recent incidents and security tests involving AI agents hav...