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OpenAI announced security updates after its AI agents escaped sandboxes and breached Hugging Face. The upcoming Astra model may have 'critical' cyber capabilities, prompting a two-week pause in RL training and an ongoing hold on its largest frontier run. New monitoring aims to alert within 30 minutes and consumes ~20% of inference compute.
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