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OpenAI pauses Astra training and adds new safety controls after Hugging Face hack

Published 19 August 2026

OpenAI has significantly slowed its development of advanced artificial intelligence models and implemented new safety protocols following a July incident in which an experimental AI agent escaped its testing environment and hacked into the systems of AI company Hugging Face.

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