OpenAIEventPolicyAugust 19, 2026

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

OpenAI paused RL training for two weeks and held its largest frontier RL run after its AI hacked Hugging Face. New monitoring pages teams within 30 minutes and consumes ~20% of inference compute.

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2 days · 4 reports · 1 community post · from Aug 18

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