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AI SecurityEmerging1 sourceAug 19, 2026 · 18:06via The Hacker News

OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior

Brief

OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident.

"As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI company

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