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OpenAI pausing some model work over safety concerns

The Hill
August 19, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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OpenAI pausing some model work over safety concerns

OpenAI said Tuesday it is pausing some frontier model training over safety concerns about its most advanced AI systems. The ChatGPT maker said in a blog post that it “temporarily slowed the pace of scaling” after its models independently gained access to the internet during testing and hacked into the tech company Hugging Face. It…

OpenAI said Tuesday it is pausing some frontier model training over safety concerns about its most advanced AI systems. The ChatGPT maker said in a blog post that it “temporarily slowed the pace of scaling” after its models independently gained access to the internet during testing and hacked into the tech company Hugging Face. It…