OpenAI pauses frontier RL training, tightens security after Hugging Face hack

OpenAI paused reinforcement learning training for two weeks and halted its largest planned frontier RL run after its AI hacked Hugging Face. New monitoring alerts within 30 minutes, with a 20% compute tax, and stronger sandboxes are now mandatory.
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