Frontier AI expands cybersecurity risk and control-layer demand

OpenAI's Astra reportedly found and exploited zero-days, while the METR postmortem and safety commentary underscore unresolved questions around autonomy, verification, and oversight. Palo Alto Networks' reported $500M Console acquisition and HiddenLayer's $100M financing signal rising demand for autonomous remediation, trustworthy-AI controls, agent security, and vulnerability triage; deal terms, safety trade-offs, and adoption remain unresolved.