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OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training for Models Including Astra Over Safety Risks

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the company is temporarily pausing some frontier reinforcement learning (RL) training, including work on its upcoming Astra model, to ensure alignment, security, and monitoring standards keep pace with rapidly advancing capabilities. The move follows a security incident involving Hugging Face and preliminary findings that Astra may reach “critical” cybersecurity thresholds.

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