OpenAI puts major frontier AI training run on hold over cyber risks

Aug 19, 2026 - 11:45
OpenAI puts major frontier AI training run on hold over cyber risks

OpenAI temporarily paused reinforcement learning (RL) training on its latest models intended for deployment for two weeks while it hardened and red-teamed research environments and expanded monitoring. “Our largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold while we conduct smaller-scale training and evaluations to assess model behavior, validate our safeguards, and establish more evidence of alignment before proceeding,” the company said. The move followed the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and preliminary evidence that the company’s upcoming … More

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